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This story is again interesting as far as changing sea levels and ocean configuration is concerned. At https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/archaeologists-survey-scotland-s-fore... ... archaeologists are surveying Scotland's submerged forests

A study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (January 2018) have been looking at lizards in Australasia, Melanesia and Polynesia. We are told

One from William. Why Halley's Comet may be linked to famine 1500 years ago. Sounds almost like Patrick McCafferty and Mike Baillie in their book,

Pierre Gosselin provides a guest post by Kenneth Richards which has some interesting information - especially if you've visited hot springs in Canada, a very

Sent in by Robert - go to https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01074-6 ... which questions the idea of the Late Heavy Bombardment, a theory which has had a somewhat

At https://phys.org/print436032776.html ... sent in by William. Dhaskalios, a nearby island but once a promontory of Keros, was at one time almost completely covered in

This story is at https://phys.org/print435824324.html ... new research shows evidence of strong winds around black holes - throughout the bright outburst events. This is the

At https://phys.org/print435918054.html ... it seems like all the juicy research turns up months after space missions - and so it is with Mars. A study

Velikovsky perceived his Exodus comet as raining hydrocarbons on the Earth - among other things less salubrious. We now know meteorites contain hydrocarbons - and

Is the origin of Life just cosmic dust in the wind? Carl Sagan famously siad 'we are made of star stuff ...' and perhaps we

Diamonds with garnets can form at depths within Earth's Manetle. Earth scientists, it is said, made a discovery that 550km beneath the surface - oxydised

The full article by Colin Renfrew (which doesn't include the recent discovery of drainage channels under the surface) is available at https://www.britac.ac.uk/sites/default/files/JBA-001-187-Renfrew-HR.pdf ... see also

At https://phys.org/print435551406.html ... new research challenges existing models of black holes as recent findings seem to show magnetic fields associated do not come up to

Current Archaeology 335 (January 2018) has a small piece on a massive hill fort at White Cuterthun on the periphery of the Grampian Mountains in

At https://www.space.com/39431-michigan-meteor-explosion-shook-earth.html ... we learn that although it was just a few feet across its speed was enough to shake the ground as it exploded

Terrific story reported by the Guardian (January 18th 2018) - go to www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/18/complex-engineering-and-metal-work... ... but don't be tempted to donate (they have a begging message

Apparently, in Norway schools still teach pupils that in the stone age people lived in caves. I suppose the same is true in the UK

A German blog reports that in Germany there is one weather station that is intact and unchanged for 138 years. It has never been moved

I like the headline on this story - Britain's first departure from Europe (in this case a geological brexit) - go to www.nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/ncomms15101 ... which

The seams of nodular and tabular flint at the base of the Upper Chalk on the South Downs were mined for axe production during the