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At https://phys.org/news/2025-07-frozen-arctic-ocean-life-ice.html ... a new study at https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adu7681 ... researchers have been testing the water during the Late Glacial Maximum - when a huge ice

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/01/co2-sustains-greenhouse-farming-revolution/ ... a spot of anti alarmism  realism. The magic ingredient for the success of modern greenhouse farming is not simply heat applied to

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/ancient-mammoths-giraffes-found-turkey/ ... paleontologists have uncovered a heap of fossilised animal remains in what is now Turkey. The remains were stumbled upon by a local

At https://phys.org/news/2025-06-hominin-fossils-recovered-submerged-sundaland.html ... The Sundaland continental shelf system, like the North Sea basin, will prove to be a rich Pleistocene fossil record. As Indonesia is

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/assyrian-swimmers-2-900-year-old-carving-of-soldiers-using-inflatable-goat-skins-to-cross-a-river ... a carved panel at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers crossing a wide river using inflatable goat skins  - floaties. US slang for those

The report comes from Current Archeology 421 [April of 2025[ - but see also https://archaeology.co.uk ... Crickley Hill is located near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire and

At https://phys.org/news/2025-06-precise-dating-carnac-megalithic-monuments.html... some might like to question how reliable the actual dating is but that is not necessary something to worry about too much as

The Chinese Academy of Sciences. At https://phys.org/news/2025-06-carbon-reveals-evidence-extensive-human.html ... Basically, evidence of landscape fires via the pyrogenic carbon record from a sediment core in the East

This story is at https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/archaeologists-unearth-evidence-of-ancient-australians-in-freezing-mountains/ ... high in the Blue Mountains, 3280 feet above sea level, human artifacts have been unearthed in a cave -

The  twin mounds of Konar Sandal are in SE Iran - abutting on Baluchistan in what is now part of Pakistan. At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/new-discoveries-in-iran-reveal-an-ancient-civilization-that-may-have-predated-mesopotamia/ ... Konar

Captain' Cook's last voyage included a search for a shipping route across the top of Canadfa.  His ships logs indicate the Arctic had a similar

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/nasa-discovers-venus-surface-still-alive/ ... NASA has discovered the surface of Venus is still geologically active, reshaping its surface at this very moment. Until now mainstream has

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/jules-verne-was-right-scientists-discovered-a-vast-ocean-within-earths-core/ ... a hidden world beneath our feet. Untapped resources of water locked deep inside Earth's mantle. It seems scientists are discovering that the

At https://phys.org/news/2025-05-genetic-trails-columbia-early-hunter.html .... people settled in South America, first reaching what is now Columbia, before branching out. One such group has been isolated who appear

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/evidence-is-building-that-people-were-in-the-americas-23-000-years-ago .... I thought this was done and dusted but perhaps not. The resistance is strong. However, analysis of ancient human footprints in New

Remaining on the theme of Palaeolithic boat travel we have another study, from the other side of the world, concerning humans getting around the Philippines

In Current Archaeology 424 July 2025, page 9, we have some interesting data - and speculation. There are now two locations on Skye that seem

At https://phys.org/news/2025-06-kings-poland-scotland-dna-evidence.html ... which is  another genetic exercise that is hampered by a lack of determining research. The genetic information, from the dna of the

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/a-giant-jellyfish-size-building/ ... we learn about a  jellyfish that grows to 8 feet in diameter and has tentacles that extend for another 60 feet. This

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/11/shock-new-evidence-shows-unnatural-60-second-heat-spikes-drive-many-uk-met-office-temperature-records/ ... Dr Eric Huxter, a retired geography teacher of 40 years, who also has a PhD in Earth Sciences, has been looking at