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At http://phys.org/print372582577.html ... we learn that nesting grounds of sauropod dinosaurs are quite astonishly preserved in some parts of the world, some sites covering many

The Times, February 25th 2015, nearly a year ago, had a report on the Black Death - and Asian gerbils were said to be responsible.

It seems the 2015 El Nino may be mostly responsible for the warmth of global weather in November and December. This is the line adopted

Mammoths, or big elephants shall we say, are always a crowd pleaser which draws attention and the story at www.sciencenews.org/article/humans-visited-arctic-earlier-thought?tgt=nr .. where we learn a

Another one from www.sciencenews.org/article/atmospheric-tides-alter-rainfall-rate?tgt=nr ... the lunar gravitational pull increases rainfall when it is on the horizon but reduces rainfall when overhead or on the

Not very often I get a chance to post in the Mythology box but at www.sciencenews.org/article/no-fairy-tale-origins-some-famous-stories-go... ... which claims some fairy tales, such as Rumpelstiltskin

I saw this first at www.spaceweather.com January 20th but it has since spiralled on to lots of other sites such as www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/evidence-mounts-hidden-ninth-pla... ... Batygin and

Rens van der Sluijs continues his posts on people in the past that have mentioned electricity in space - see www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2016/01/11/current-models-of-the-sun-a-charged-... ... followed by part

Tornadoes are something that happens in N America - aren't they? Apparently, tornadoes, or whirlwinds as we tend to call them over here, are more

At www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/meet-the-archaeologists-making-ancient-rock-... ... yes, drones have been used to reach high parts of slabs of rock covered in etchings during a major exercise to map

At www.nature.com/news/cave-of-forgotten-dreams-may-hold-earliest-painting-... ...    The volcanoes on the cave walls at Chauvet (see above) lie in an inner gallery that was previously made famous by

Otzi. A lot of genetic studies have been done on Otzi the ice man (rescued from a melting Alpine glacier) - see http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2015-2016/article/new-discov... ... and

At http://phys.org/print371967451.html ... water ice has been found on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (the ESA Rosetta Mission). The findings are published in January's Nature journal. The coma,

MJ Harper has proposed a new theory on the formation of deserts - which is novel if nothing else. You can buy a video from

At http://phys.org/print371886369.html ... some nice images for the dwarf planet (asteroid) Ceres taken by the Dawn Mission - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/dawn There are craters, ridges and

Zooming in on black holes is the main task of a newly installed instrument at ESOs telescope in Chile. The instrument combines the ligh from

The Climategate emails were a boon to climate sceptics as they revealed what some scientists really thought. For example, this one from Swansea University -

At http://phys.org/print371923822.html ... and at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk ... we have a pile of split stones laid out on display - with apparently, sharp edges. They are

At http://phys.org/print371876448.html ... the Pleistocene is famous for big versions of beasts we see around us in the modern world. Mammoths are large elephants with

The story is still travelling around the Net - see http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/bronze-age-houses-u... ... and comes complete with images (which must have been released by Cambridge University)