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At https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/ancient-frosty-rhino-from-canadas-high-arctic-rewrites-what-scientists-thought-they-knew-about-the-north-atlantic-land-bridge ... a long headline. The researchers have gained an insight into rhinoceros evolution and the longevity of the North Atlantic land bridge. This

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-scientists-explanation-oddball-rich-exoplanets.html ... another interesting research paper. It skirts around the mainstream narrative but manages to get across a different way of looking at the

At https://spaceweather.com ... on October 31st we learnt that Earth was passing through a stream of slow moving Halloween fireballs. This is the origin of

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/scientists-found-dinosaur-tail-amber/ ... a small piece from a dinosaur tail, complete with bones, soft tissue, and feathers, has been discovered in amber from Myanmar [formerly

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-scientists-elusive-solar-power-sun.html ... solar physicists, via astronomers, have found evidence of small scale torsional Alfven waves in the Sun's corona. These magnetic waves, or electro-magnetic

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-island-ancient-rifting-reshaped-madagascar.html ... Madagascar's landscape tells a geological story, we are told. Ancient rifting and tilting of its landscape sculpted its dramatic topography. Madagascar also

Dating pharaoh Ahmose, first king of dynasty 18 - by c14 methodology. At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-radiocarbon-dating-egyptian-artifacts-thera.html ... this is a peculiar one that we may suppose will

Robert sent in a couple of links worth posting. I'll be brief but the impetus came from reading https://phys.org/news/2025-10-extreme-jet-streams-giant-planets.html ... which is a modeling study.

It may not have happened - in spite of texts telling a tale of a grand epidemic in the Bronze age world. At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-egyptian-plague-akhetaten.html ...

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-north-american-ice-sheets-drove.html ... a research paper with some questions we might flag. We are told  melting ice sheets in North America played a greater role

At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Rhine_Graben ... the Upper Rhine Plain is a rift valley formation - 220 miles in length. It is, in places. 50 km in width.

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/intact-egg-still-contains-liquid/ ... archaeologists in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire have unearthed a Roman period egg. Not only has it survived intact but it also still contains

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/tokyo-sized-interstellar-object-3i-atlas-emits-rare-metal-alloy-never-observed-in-nature-harvard-says/.... Comet 31/ATLAS is even odder than previously thought, it would seem. Although it behaves like other interstellar interlopers, but not entirely so, such

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-tsunamis-gps-satellites.html ... tsunami waves have recently come under investigation. I have a book on the subject - which is basically an early example of

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-discovery-stone-megastructures-view-prehistoric.html ... LiDAR has proved extremely useful when seeking out prehistoric structures and enclosures. In the UK it has been used to discover activity

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-longstanding-ice-giant-classification-uranus.html ... a modeling study of Uranus and Neptune has brought some scepticism to the theory of ice giants. It seems, modeling suggests, they

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-rare-jurassic-sword-dragon-prehistoric.html ...the sword dragon is a variety of the ichthyosaur - and a complete skeleton has been found in Dorset. It was unearthed on

Staying within a similar vein, mythology - at https://phys.org/news/2025-10-unearth-ancient-egypt-karnak-temple.html ... researchers have carried out a geoarchaeological survey of Egypt's Karnak Temple near Luxor. What was

Robert sent in the link https://www.sciencealert.com/the-strange-science-behind-ghostly-lights-that-have-haunted-us-for-centuries .... ghostly lights dancing in mid air above swampy ground and between trees in damp woodland. Appartitions suspended above

At https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/comet-3i-atlas-is-losing-water-like-a-fire-hose-on-full-blast-rewriting-what-we-thought-we-knew-about-alien-star-systems ... researchers have discovered comet 31/ATLAS has been shedding water. Initially, observations by the James Webb Telescope suggested it had a high co2