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Alt: Star Trek DS9's Quark saying "The line has to be drawn here. This far and no further."

From Laika the dog to Ham the chimpanzee, animals have blasted off—and died—pioneering space travel for us. See what we still send up today.

Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons