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Killer Whales Are Attacking Boats And Seem To Be Teaching The Skill To Others
Orcas sank three sailboats off the coast of Spain and Morocco.
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Put a Crown on It: Saturn Shatters Jupiter’s Record for Most Moons
In February, scientists declared that Jupiter had the most moons of any planet in our solar system, with 92 natural satellites, ripping the crown from Saturn’s grasp. Now, Saturn has snatched it back, as astronomers have found an additional 62 objects orbiting the ringed planet, bring its total to a whopping 145 moons.
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Paleontologists Perplexed by Swimming Predator With ‘Screwdriver’ Teeth
The ancient seas of the Late Cretaceous period would’ve been scary places to swim. Between 66 million and 100 million years ago, the world’s waterways were chock-full of real-life sea monsters. Not least of which were the sometimes bus-sized, possibly venomous, predatory lizards known as mosasaurs.
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NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Strikes a Pose in New Photo Taken by Another Lunar Spacecraft
A pair of lunar orbiters recently crossed each other’s paths around the Moon, with one flying overhead and capturing an image of the orbiting spacecraft below. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, also known as Danuri, snapped the streaked, fuzzy photo of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) as both spacecraft circled the Moon.