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At  https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/02/neither-sapiens-nor-neanderthal-lapedo-child-real-identity/ ... a new C14 reassessment has redated the Lapedo child from Portugal to 28,000 years ago. Rather than putting a cuckoo in the

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/americas/14-000-year-old-ivory-tools-found-in-alaska-hint-at-how-clovis-ancestors-first-arrived-in-the-new-world ... ancient tools found in Alaska may shed light on how humans first arrived in the Americas. They are said to bear similarities

At https://phys.org/news/2026-02-geomagnetic-reversals-earth-incomplete.html ... interesting study by a number of Japanese institutes and interested accomplices. Several studies, we are told, have suggested geomagnetic reversal, rather than

Link sent in by William with the comment, here we go again. Our theories are wrong and need to  be updated with the new data.

At https://phys.org/news/2026-02-earth-core-oceans-worth-hydrogen.html ... Earth's core is iron. That is a long standing theory. A thoroughly consensus opinion. However, it seems the iron core is not

If you think you are confused  with the various comets of 2025 you are not alone. However, it is best to try and find which

At  https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/02/scientists-found-fossil-at-bottom-of-ocean/ ... a jawbone retrieved from the bottom of the Taiwan Strait has been confirmed as belonging to a Denisovan individual, contemporary Neanderthals in

At https://phys.org/news/2026-02-extreme-plasma-monster-explanation-fast.html  ... extreme plasma acceleration in monster shocks may explain fast radio bursts in the universe, as seen in earth bound telescopes. Simulation of

At https://phys.org/news/2026-02-ionospheric-disturbances-earthquakes.html  ...  researchers in Japan, at Kyoto University, are exploring the idea that disturbances in the ionosphere, associated with CMEs, may exert electrostatic forces

There have been some conflicting ideas on what kind of event it was that caused Akhenaten to introduce his new cult of the Aten. We 

The story is at https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/01/webb-galaxy-challenges-early-universe/ ... the James Webb space telescope has spotted a galaxy just 280 million years after Big Bang - shrinking the

Red rocks, rich in iron. At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/01/they-smashed-rock-found-intact-fossils/ ... this is a story from New South Wales in Australia. Hidden within layers of deep red iron

This idea came up quite a few years ago but appears to have been rejected by most scientists as unlikely. Smacks of catastrophism I suppose

At https://phys.org/news/2026-01-refined-radiocarbon-dating-clearer-timeline.html  ... radio carbon dating of marine remains has suffered from old carbon in oceans causing anomalies over the years. Scientists have come up

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/01/3-year-old-discovers-3800-year-old-bronze-age-relic-in-israel/ ... a family walk turned up a MB age Egyptian scarab in Israel - dated to around 1800BC. In fact, the site of

At https://phys.org/news/2026-01-hafted-stone-tools-china-early.html ... a newly excavated site in central China is eshaping what we know about our early ancestors. They have uncovered advanced stone tool

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/5-000-year-old-rock-art-from-ancient-egypt-depicts-terrifying-conquest-of-the-sinai-peninsula... archaeologists have found a 5000 year old piece of rock art in what is now the Sinai Desert, that depicts the conquest of

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/01/a-student-finds-fossilized-fragment-and-accidentally-unlocks-a-lost-european-trade-routes-from-5400-years-ago/ ... a grave  near a remote Russian lake was with amber ornaments and stone tools from foreign lands - dated around 5400 year

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/01/how-stonehenge-stones-were-moved/ ... the mystery of how the stones of Stonehenge were moved - not how they were put in place. It has a long

Four volcanic plateaus occurred in the Triassic, we are told at https://phys.org/news/2026-01-marine-volcanic-plateaus-triassic-extinction.html ... leading to four episodes of mass extinction. It would be worth looking