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    An object in a satellite image defies explanation. Could it solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries?
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  • TOPSHOT - The supermoon rises over a highway near Yangon on December 3, 2017. The lunar phenomenon occurs when a full moon is at its closest point to earth. (Photo by Ye Aung THU / AFP) (Photo by YE AUNG THU/AFP via Getty Images)
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  • Chinese reusable booster explodes during first orbital test, in failed bid to catch SpaceX
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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
  • Archaeologists may have uncovered a Bronze Age metropolis in Kazakhstan’s steppe

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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
  • New research reveals urban raccoons across the US show early signs of domestication
  • 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
  • Mating injuries may lead scientists to identify dinosaurs’ sex
  • ‘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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