In the News

At http://phys.org/print362229294.html ... we learn that the ancestors of Aborigines may have lived alongside giant lizards that lived in Australia as recently as 50,000 years

At http://phys.org/print362294586.html ... which begins by telling us that comets are composed of dust and ices which they periodically shed as they swing round the

Interesting post at http://phys.org/print361784158.html ... Earth is like a big bar magnet - and its attract and repulse properties. A Swedish space balloon project is

At http://phys.org/print361773247.html ... a paper in Australian Geography 'Aboriginal memories of inundation of the Australian coast dating from more than 7000 years ago' used stories

Robert Farrar sent in the link www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama ... which is another set of images (go to the link but below is one to wet the

At www.world-mysteries.com/milton_darwin1.htm ... there is a post on Richard Milton concering Darwinism, as he calls it but what we might call Gradualism or Uniformitarianism (evolution

At http://phys.org/print362238625.html ... changing sea levels and global cooling events caused serious declines in the number of crocodiles inhabiting planet Earth at any given time

The Paris climate bean feast in December is looking like it might be a gem - one to raise a smirk. The promise of a

William Thompson provided the link, www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/researchers-lost-world-of-dinosaurs-thrived-in... ... I'm not sure if the journalist that did this post was raising a query, with tongue in cheek,

At http://phys.org/print362144022.html ... we learn that Earth's core contains more oxygen than previously allowed. Geologist Rick Ryerson and colleagues modeled geophysical and geochemical signatures they

At http://siberiantimes.com/home/born-in-siberia/sasha-the-worlds-only-baby... ... a baby woolly rhinoceros, 34,000 years old, has been dated to a specific period that witnessed an unknown catastrophic event, possibly two

Peter Fairlie-Clarke also provided a link to a paper - all the way back to 1907. I know he's knocking on, but ... but as

William Thompson forwarded the link http://impact-structures.com/news/Stoettham_c.pdf ... 'Characteristics of a Holocene impact layer in an archaeological site in SE Bavaria' which involved the Institute for

Robert Farrar sent in the link to http://astronomynow.com/2015/09/20/the-surface-of-rosettas-comet-is-chan... .... which seems to have preceded the link on PhysOrg (http://phys.org/print362124520.html). Robert asks if electrical erosion has

At https://curryja.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/longhurst-final.pdf .... is a free to download e-book (can be printed out or read online) by Alan Longhurst, a geologist rather than a climate

The Denisova cave in the NW Altai caused a bit of a stir a couple of years ago when the tooth of an individual was

At http://phys.org/print361438706.html ... the composition of asteroids is discussed. They are mostly rock but some contain a lot of clay and silicates as well as

It seems a more sober assessment of Homo naledi is now emerging after the media went over hype. At http://phys.org/print361434216.html ... more details have emerged

a cloud of plasma 600,000km in length is being held above the surface of the Sun by its magnetic field - go to www.spaceweather.com

Exodus is going to feature in one of our talks at the speaker meeting in Watford this weekend so it might be worth while if