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In today’s Discovery: Archaeologists are getting closer to unraveling the mystery of the Phoenicians, an 80-foot-long sea monster was the killer whale of its time, and the science behind meat-like plants (and the quest to design even meatier ones).

But first: The best evidence yet for ancient life on Mars is keeping scientists up at night.

A selfie taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover near the arrowhead-shaped rock nicknamed 'Cheyava Falls.'

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Geologist Michael Tice had never lost sleep over a Mars rock before. That changed as he dug into data from the red planet’s Bright Angel rock formation, located in an ancient river valley called Neretva Vallis.

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An eighth-century B.C. relief from the site of the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II, near Mosul in northern Iraq, shows Phoenician ships transporting cedar wood.

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Archaeologists are unraveling the mystery of the Phoenicians

This 80-foot-long sea monster was the killer whale of its time

Why are certain plants so meaty?

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