It begins as a prehistoric adventure (a popular genre at the time), and is related in the solemn, archaic cadences of a fable.
In a clearing, I finally saw it: a prehistoric-looking creature almost 2m tall with a bulky grey body, armour-plated skin, robust legs and hooked horn.
The group constitutes a major prehistoric cultural landscape which gives a graphic depiction of life in this remote archipelago in the far north of Scotland some 5, 000 years ago.
Mr Thomas discovered the tusk when he was showing his brother Mark where he found a set of prehistoric human footprints in a peat bed a few weeks ago.
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And imagine trying to swat one of those monster prehistoric insects like a vulture-sized dragonfly.
Our guide easily picked up a prehistoric dung beetle before setting it free to scurry over droppings left by elephants.
The faintest ochre scratches of prehistoric antelope in a cave open a rare window into Africa's and humanity's distant past.
Remains of a prehistoric enclosure have been discovered by archaeologists in Truro, Cornwall.
In August, Dr Kvamme tested this camera at Double Ditch, a prehistoric fortified settlement along the Missouri River in North Dakota.
The scene on the wall looks like a prehistoric dream sequence.
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The more astute among you might have already figured out that this is a prehistoric creature, possibly roaming the earth some 110- to 112-million years ago.
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At one point we scrambled out of the cars to see scattered fields of fossilized shellfish and sand dollars that had nestled on a prehistoric ocean floor.
And the piccolo trumpet soars like a prehistoric flying creature, as my present experiences meld into my imagined ones, all in just the first three minutes of the music.
The boat will be on display in a new gallery at the museum, which will also showcase a range of artefacts from the Portsmouth area, including Saxon jewellery and weaponry, prehistoric flint tools and a Bronze Age torc (neck ornament).
As a teenager he built dioramas featuring prehistoric creatures and filmed them with a 16-millimeter camera, gently hitting the "run" button to move the film one frame at a time, according to his biography on rayharryhausen.com.
"Interest in prehistoric remains has undergone a striking resurgence in France over the last few years, " Mr. Mickeler notes.
No phone, no address book, no music: It was as though I'd left the modern world behind at Sunan airport and stepped back in time to a seemingly prehistoric analog era.
"We've found archaeology from pretty much all periods - from the very ancient prehistoric right up to a 20th-Century industrial site, but this site is probably the most important medieval site we've got, " said Jay Carver, project archaeologist for Crossrail.
Only a vanishingly small fraction of prehistoric animals died in the perfect conditions--including a swift cover of sediment--necessary to fossilize bones in the first place.
The museum indeed, which makes a number of striking curatorial innovations such as the use of contemporary art and sculpture as settings for prehistoric artefacts, is anything but a one-sided verdict of Scottish history.
Prehistoric remains discovered more than a century ago have been identified as a new species of marine super-predator.
Houses are due to be built on the land, which is adjacent to a site where prehistoric pottery was found in the 1970s.
They left behind a legacy of prehistoric field boundaries and homes.
He added that the discovery provided a unique opportunity to learn more about the earliest permanent settlements in prehistoric Britain and how such sites developed at a time when new practices were being adopted.
The most popular video during the period was for The Year One, a stoner comedy about prehistoric times, starring Jack Black and Michael Cera.
For example, he mentions a scientific paper that suggests that lichens, bacteria and the like may have been a driving force behind prehistoric geology and the formation of continents.
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Professor Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, said the find presented a number of questions, such as to what extent culture could continue to be used as a proxy for different prehistoric human groups.
France has plenty of prehistoric sites, but Carnac is in a league of its own.
Now if that news has your inner evil-overlord scheming a plot to create a clone army of intelligent prehistoric bugs, sorry, we've got bad news.
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And like that prehistoric flowering of diversity, all but a few of those unique and clever devices may soon be extinct, says Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey.
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