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This story is at https://phys.org/news/2026-03-laschamps-geomagnetic-excursion-today-aviation.html ... Finnish scientists have been  looking at how a geomagnetic excursion event might affect flights from Helsinki airport. I would

Genetics is chipping into archaeological discoveries. Back in the day, islands such as Ibiza became part of the Islamic world. Ibiza being first colonised from

At https://phys.org/news/2026-03-israel-stonehenge-longer-satellite-technology.html ...  Rujm el-Hiri on the Golan Heights has often been compared to Stonehenge. Mainly because it is an elaborate stone circle - without

Bill Thompson sent in a link to Psalm 29:1-5 and 9-11 that can be added to his compilation of catastrophic events, including those recorded in

At https://phys.org/news/2026-03-massive-insect-body-size-million.html ...  300 million years ago Earth was quite different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea and there were high oxygen levels. Water teemed

At https://phys.org/news/2026-03-dinner-tooth-enamel-reveals-early.html ...  the bodies of people found in the streets of Nineveh after its conquest and destruction by the Medes and Babylonians in 612BC

At https://phys.org/news/2026-03-europe-late-neanderthals-descended-population.html ...  a new DNA analysis of European Neanderthals has found genetic evidence of another mass die-off event. Around 75,000 years ago. In the

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/most-complete-fossil-skull-found-cliff/ ... a massive pliosaur skull dating back to the late Jurassic has been found sticking out of a cliff in Dorset's 'Jurassic Coast.'

At https://phys.org/news/2026-03-monte-verde-fieldwork-resets-age.html ... Monte Verde is a site in southern Chile that has been associated with early human activity, prior to Clovis in North America.

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/java-sea-homo-erectus-giant-beasts-discovery/ ... dredging in the Madura Strait  in Java uncovered ancient animal remains and two pieces of skull. They are said to belong to

William sent in a link to a video on MSN. It discusses how religions and myths around the world may have preserved memory of ancient

At https://phys.org/news/2026-03-north-sea-lost-world-habitable.html ... it seems forests were growing in what is now Doggerland. Or at least along the line of the river running up through

William sent in the link to a news story at MSN. It is also at https://phys.org/news/2026-03-meteor-falling-cleveland-states.html ... who, in this instance, are quick off the

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/cave-paintings-reveal-strange-creatures/ ... we  are told a mysterious rock painting in a cave in southern Africa depicts a horned serpent. It has tusks, and a

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/3-300-year-old-cremations-found-in-scotland-suggest-the-people-died-in-a-mysterious-catastrophic-event.... one's first thought - are they making a meal of it? Archaeologists have discovered cremation remains dated at around 3300 years ago, roughly

Robert sent in a couple of links, including https://phys.org/news/2026-03-saharan-generated-hidden-thunderstorms-high.html ... a story that dust with an origin in the Sahara desert is 'generated' by hidden

At https://phys.org/news/2026-02-ancient-seafloor-arkansas-sharkansas-shark.html ... we have a shark graveyard in Arkansas - going back 325 million years ago on the geological column. As far as fossils are

The idea sounds good but in spite or endless promise it has never turned up in the market place. Reproducing the energy of the Sun.

Another re-run of the idea a writing system was invented long before it emerged as an accounting tool in Sumeria. See https://phys.org/news/2026-02-year-stone-age-paved-mesopotamia.html .... and more

Emmet Sweeney has provided a link to a You Tube video in which he is interviewed and outlines his ideas on a deep revision of