An elephant pictured at Chester Zoo in England, UK.
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The all-woman crew for Blue Origin's upcoming flight into space includes, clockwise from top left: Katy Perry, Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, Lauren S√°nchez and Amanda Nguyen, on the bridge of Blue Origin's Launch Site One outside of Van Horn, Texas on April 11, 2025. S√°nchez teamed up with Monse to redesign the Blue Origin flight suits with its all-female launch in mind. (Justin Hamel/The New York Times)
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HOLCOMBE, UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 05: The full Snow Moon rises behind leafless trees on February 5, 2023 in Somerset, England. Tonight's full Snow Moon will be the smallest full moon of the year, making this Snow Moon a micromoon, which is the opposite of a supermoon. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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Jawbone dredged up from the seafloor belonged to a Denisovan
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A reconstruction of the altar illustrates the painted panels of red, black and yellow which would have depicted a person wearing a feathered headdress and flanked by shields or regalia.
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Reconstruction of a late Maastrichtian (~66 million years ago) palaeoenvironment in North America, where a floodplain is roamed by dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex, Edmontosaurus annectens and Triceratops prorsus.
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Jawbone dredged up from the seafloor belonged to a Denisovan
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This handout photo provided by SpaceX and Polaris on September 15, 2024 shows Jared Isaacman, Mission Commander, stepping out of the manned Polaris Dawn mission's "Dragon" capsule after it splashed down off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, after completing the first human spaceflight mission by non-government astronauts of the Polaris Program. The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, which made history when its crew conducted the first spacewalk by non-government astronauts, splashed down off the coast of Florida early on September 15, 2024. The Dragon spacecraft landed in the ocean at 3:37 am (0737 GMT), a webcast of the splashdown showed, with a recovery team deploying in the pre-dawn darkness to retrieve the capsule and crew. The capsule was lifted from the water and onto the recovery vessel half a hour later. (Photo by Polaris Program / AFP) / XGTY / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / SpaceX / Polaris" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by -/Polaris Program/AFP via Getty Images)
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National Geographic will present "Titanic: The Digital Resurrection," a documentary that uses underwater scanning technology to unveil a digital twin of the ship.
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3D scan of Titanic sheds new light on doomed liner’s final moments

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TOPSHOT - In this picture taken in the country-side near Dalby-Viggeby, south of Uppsala, Sweden just after 21:00 CET on March 24, 2025 shows a blue and white spiral in the night sky reportedly created by frozen fuel tumbling from a SpaceX rocket. A stunning blue and white spiral spotted in skies across Europe was created by frozen fuel tumbling from a SpaceX rocket, according to weather forecasters and scientists. The UK's Met Office said on X it had received many reports of an "illuminated swirl" in the sky on Monday evening likely caused by a rocket that had earlier blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. (Photo by Bertrand ILHE / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY "Blue spiral in sky above France, UK likely from SpaceX rocket" (Photo by BERTRAND ILHE/AFP via Getty Images)
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