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At http://phys.org/print347781194.html ... I suppose it was bound to happen. Following a cluster of studies that have shown Neanderthals were not the stupid backward mugglewups

Boabs grow native to Africa and Madagascar - and a single relative thrives in the Kimberley region of NW Australia. How did boabs reach Australia?

At http://phys.org/print347613455.html ... Mars not only has polar ice caps but has glaciers elsewhere too - in both hemispheres. These glaciers have until now been

This is a classic piece of geology as sink holes can pop up anywhere and usually have a reason, quite often due to human action

Tim Cullen has been his usual self - questioning the group think of consensus science. One of his posts as been re-published at Tall Bloke's

An interesting development at http://phys.org/print347820987.html ... the Isthmus of Panama formed between 17 and 15 million years ago rather than 3 million years ago, according

Not Peter James of SIS fame but Peter M James, a geologist from Tasmania, author of 'Extinctions: the Pattern of Global Cataclysm' - and he

How is this beauty? At http://phys.org/print347616080.html ... this picture was taken over an Icelandic lake with a curtain like aurora arching across the sky -

At http://phys.org/print347186224.html ... a close up view from NASAs Curiosity Rover showing what looks like mineral veins on Mars. Once again, NASA introduces food into

At http://phys.org/print347187952.html ... the Rosetta saga continues - it has now experienced significant buffeting and difficulties over controls as Rosetta swoops low across comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko,

  at http://phys.org/print347186673.html ... a nice image of the Southern Lights - aurorae near the South Pole. These have recently been visible from Australia but

At http://westerndigs.org/over-1000-ancient-stone-tools-left-by-great-basin... .... some really cracking stone tools can be seen at this link, including a spear head known as a Hackett Point, dating back

The link below is to a video of a programme on Discovery Channel some time ago. It relates the story of archaeologists seeking to understand

At www.space.com/28983-ancient-mars-oceans-big-waves.html .... as it has been repeated now on many occasions the assumption is growing strength in the idea that Mars once harboured an

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/new-c14-dating-tech... .... we are informed archaeologists will be able to get dating results quicker and cheaper which will be a massive boon. At the

Another interesting post from www.space.com/28894-moon-lava-tubes-underground-cities.html .... no, not a reference to cities already on the moon, hiding in cavities and lava tubes, but the prospect

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/chinas-mysterious-s... ... strange ritual sites in NW China (spilling over into Mongolia) appear to go back to 2500BC - the same age as Egypt's

At http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2015/03/27/bolivia-detect... ... we have all heard of Tiahuanaco, high in the Andes, and its mysterious ruins - now a buried pyramid is thought to

At www.newscientist.com/article/dn27275-thye-moons-got-two-tails-and its-friends-might-too.html .... member Gary Gilligan sent in this piece he spotted at New Scientist this week. The Moon has got two tails. One

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/geomagnetism-jerk-excursion-rpi-... ... we have some interesting information where science is at a boundary of knowledge and is in the process of changing its mind.