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About 165 million years ago, a furry critter that swam like a platypus, hunted like an otter and had a tail similar to a beaver's frolicked in the lakes and rivers of what is now China pursuing fish and salamanders, the oldest-known example of a semiaquatic lifestyle in mammalian evolutionary history.

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WASHINGTON — In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now found a world that rightly can be called a phoenix planet. kAm#6D62C496CD D2:5 E9:D 6I@A=2?6E[ 2D A=2?6ED 36J@?5 @FC D@=2C DJDE6> 2C6 42==65[ 2AA62CD E@ 92G6 366? 3@C? 7C@> >2E6C:2= 6IA6==65 :?E@ DA246 5FC:?8 E96 562E9 E9C@6D @7 2 DE2C 2 3:E 3:886C E92?

From Trump administration disputes with a university to protests across France and on U.S. campuses, here are stories that made headlines this past week. Or skip to the end to take a quiz to test your news savvy. k9amr@FCE H6:89D %CF>A 5:DAFE6 H:E9 w2CG2C5k^9am kAm!C6D:56?E s@?2=5 %CF>A’D 25>:?:DEC2E:@? 2D<65 2? 2AA62=D 4@FCE @? |@?52J E@ =6E :E E6C>:?2E6 >@C6 E92? Sa 3:==:@? :? 8C2?ED 2H2C565 E@ w2CG2C5 &?:G6CD:EJ[ 2 >2;@C E2C86E :? E96 #6AF3=:42? AC6D:56?E’D 3C@256C 42>A2:8?

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