May 20th, 2006 · India's newest boom town is Hyderabad, a hub for multinational high tech and pharmaceutical companies. But Hydrabad is also known for its enormous, prehistoric granite boulders, which are being jeopardized by economic development.
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Feb 17th, 2006 · In Pennsylvania, hunters are pushing for a return to an ancient way of killing their prey. Recently, the state's game commission gave preliminary approval to a deer-hunting season for the atlatl -- a prehistoric weapon once used to bring down woolly mammoths.
Keywords: Controversy · weapons · Pennsylvania · Mammoth · deer · ancient · prehistoric · woolly · Hunter · atlatl · Commission
Jan 22nd, 2006 · Oregon's Wheeler County, one of the poorest in the American West, hopes to stimulate a struggling rural economy by attracting attention to ancient fossils and the state's prehistoric times.
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Feb 18th, 2005 · Over the past decade, scientists have learned a great deal about how dinosaurs moved and stood. In Toronto, two high-tech workshops are using the latest in computer animation and simulation technology to create realistic -- and moving-- versions of the prehistoric creatures.
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Oct 7th, 2004 · The earliest-known ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex -- the prehistoric world's most famous predator -- sported short "protofeathers," scientists report in the latest issue of the journal Nature. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.
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Oct 1st, 2004 · Texas is full of archeological treasure, from the prehistoric settlements in Central Texas, to the million-plus artifacts found on the sunken ship the Belle. And don't forget the Alamo, or the state's other missions. In a live broadcast from San Antonio, we take a tour of Texas archaeological sites.
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