enigmatic

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Thanks to newly discovered fossil bones, scientists have now been able to match an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot, first found in 2009, to a species that is different from the famous fossil Lucy.

From Science Daily

The sculptures lovingly sanctify a keystone’s rational but enigmatic contradiction of mechanics and function.

From Los Angeles Times

Bringing together archaeological approaches with scientific analyses can turn a single, enigmatic object into evidence that contributes to a broader understanding of the past.

From Science Daily

Nancy Shear wasn’t yet out of her teens when she was hired as musical assistant to the eminent and enigmatic symphony conductor Leopold Stokowski, who became her mentor and a father figure of sorts.

From The Wall Street Journal

The spacecraft took thousands of photographs of the planet—revealing an enigmatic world and raising more questions than answers—before speeding off to the outer solar system.

From Scientific American