Then a few more, and a few more, until about eight great hulking forms are skulking and prowling nearby.

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The characteristic Palaeocene fauna seems to have come and gone with the ancestors of modern mammals still skulking unchanged in their burrows.

ECONOMIST: Rewriting the history of the mammals

Finally, he got up and lumbered off to a tiled tunnel, where he could always find a skulking dog or two, sometimes whole packs.

NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

He spent hours skulking around rival booths at industry shows.

FORBES: Sole Survivors

It ends with Mr Fujimori skulking in a Japanese novelist's house in Tokyo, stripped of the presidency over the scandalous behaviour of Vladimiro Montesinos, his now-fugitive intelligence chief and closest political adviser.

ECONOMIST: Japan and the United States have a special duty to help

Brad Pitt plays Jesse James, who is at the tail end of his career and joins up with his brother Frank (Sam Shepard) for one last train robbery, then spends the rest of the story skulking under an alias or settling scores.

NEWYORKER: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

One morning, the whole team showed up: Beadle and Blork and the junior-junior doctors whose names Titania could never remember and Alice and the nurse and another two or three mortals whose function, if it was something besides just skulking about, she never did discover.

NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

Only the Cape genet (a spotted, cat-like mammal native to southern Africa) attempts any level of interaction with us on the first night, skulking just outside the light circle of the campfire in anticipation of some leftovers, having become accustomed to the free handouts at the overnight stopping points.

WSJ: Trekking in Otter Space

Some skulking around the future App Store layout from 9to5 Mac reader Sonny Dickson has shown an as yet unreleased Twitter 4.3 release carrying "more interactive experiences" for links within certain posts -- in other words, expect a multimedia extravaganza if a friend really digs that New York Times article.

ENGADGET: Twitter for iOS 4.3 gets early teases from Twitter itself and the App Store, promises gobs of in-tweet content