The earliest known record of a comet sighting was made by an astrologer of the Chinese court in 1059 B.C.
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Sighting
/ˈsaɪtɪŋ/
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Yanni had his first sighting of a UFO in 2004.
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The ivory-billed woodpecker was once the US's largest woodpecker species but the last commonly agreed sighting was in 1944 in Louisiana.
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Cougars — also known as mountain lions, pumas and panthers — were once the top predator in the forests of eastern North America, but they were wiped out by the early 1900s due to habitat destruction, hunting and loss of their primary prey, deer. The last confirmed sighting of the big cats was more than 100 years ago, but that hasn't stopped people from looking for them.
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