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The spear-like wooden dart was found in 2007, but the University of Colorado didn't announce it until Tuesday.
Yellowstone Tool Find: Melting Glaciers Help Colorado Archeologists Find Rare Artifact 2010
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• Ancient tool found in melting ice near Yellowstone: The spear-like wooden dart was found in 2007, but the University of Colorado didn't announce it until Tuesday.
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The spear-like wooden dart was found in 2007, but the University of Colorado didn't announce it until Tuesday.
Yellowstone Tool Find: Melting Glaciers Help Colorado Archeologists Find Rare Artifact 2010
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The prows of the ships are formed into sharp, spear-like points so that wherever they are thrust they pierce and completely destroy.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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The prows of the ships are formed into sharp, spear-like points so that wherever they are thrust they pierce and completely destroy.
Bishop Arborelius on the SSPX and the newest Swedish TV attack on the Pope 2009
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One makes a spear-like thrust with the picker to get the fruit inside the pipe.
Make A Fruit Picker To Snag Out Of Reach Fruit | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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In Hell there will issue from a fetid gale a gloomy figure with head like a minaret, red eyeballs, hooked nose, teeth like pillars, spear-like fangs, snaky locks etc. and when asked who he is he will reply, “I am the personification of thine evil acts!”
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Hypothesis 3 (spear-fishing) can also be rejected given that it is hard to imagine how the long, stiff neck could permit rapid lunging, stabbing and/or grabbing, plus the bill tip morphology is not spear-like as it is in the birds that practice this lifestyle.
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Predictions: proficient wading abilities (indicating by long, spreading toes) or swimming abilities; sharply pointed, spear-like bill; flexible neck that allows rapid darting of bill towards prey.
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Finally, the predators have an enlarged stoma with either a spear-like structure or rows of pointed teeth.
Nematoda 2008
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