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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

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