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prehistoric

[pree-hi-stawr-ik, -stor-, pree-i-] / ˌpri hɪˈstɔr ɪk, -ˈstɒr-, ˌpri ɪ- /


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Wouldn’t you want to hang out with the guy unabashedly wearing a hat with a prehistoric creature bursting out of each end?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

Researchers have identified a 90 million year old fossil that helps solve a long standing mystery about a strange group of prehistoric animals.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

The toothless bottom-feeder, which looks like a prehistoric catfish and can weigh over 200 pounds, has been overfished globally.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Ewan Bodenham, 29, named the prehistoric reptile after his former physics teacher David Rhys Jones in Cardigan, Ceredigion.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Silent in the moonlight, it was like some patient prehistoric creature that had crawled down from the mountains: dumb, lonely, biding its time, untroubled by the articles of playground equipment which surrounded it.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt