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  • This mosaic of Bennu was created using observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that was in close proximity to the asteroid for over two years.
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  • Multiple domestic cat skulls unearthed from the Xitucheng site in China.
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    Where did house cats come from? Ancient DNA shakes up their origin story
  • Easter Island quarry reveals how Polynesians made enigmatic stone statues
  • There are thousands of aligned holes in Peru. Archaeologists now think they know who made them
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    In a scientific first, biologists recorded a wild wolf potentially using tools
  • New Zealand says it’s going to eradicate feral cats
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  • Kissing is an ‘evolutionary conundrum.’ Scientists just mapped its unexpected origins

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    Ancient eggshells shed new light on crocodiles that hunted prey from trees
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  • ‘Dueling dinosaurs’ fossil forces a radical rethink of T. rex remains
  • New research upends theory that Indigenous Australians hunted large animals to extinction
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