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Sent in by William, two links to the same story - see https://www.yahoo.com/gma/dinosaur-tracks-113m-years-ago-200947210.html ... and https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-dinosaur-tracks-uncovered-river-184956425.html ... a long hot summer has revealed relics in

Sir David King, Tony Blair's government scientist, has popped himself out of his box after a long period out of the earshot of normal people.

At https://www.science.org/content/article/phenomenal-ancient-dna-data-set-provides-clues-origin-farming-and-early-languages ... this is another genetic study that creeps outside of genetics and claims to identify language changes, or introductions, something entirely independent of

Gary sent in the link to https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20220727-the-iberian-civilisation-that-vanished ... which concerns Tartessos in SW Spain. The port of Tartessos has long been known and has been

William sent in the link https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/a-second-asteroid-may-have-struck-during-the-dinosaurs-demise ... a second asteroid, or a fragment from a single asteroid, may have struck the earth at the time

At https://www.sciencealert.com/thousands-of-years-ago-plague-may-have-helped-the-decline-of-an-ancient-civilization ... from mid to late 3rd millennium BC there was widespread collapse of civilizations around the world. In the eastern Mediterranean and Sumero-Babylonia,

Good news on the global warming front. You won't have heard much about this in mainstream media sources. Coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/mammoth-bones-ghost-footprints-add-170000900.html ... mammoth bone is combined with human footprints but the two things are thousands of years apart. However, the

This is an interesting piece of research but it is also coloured by mainstream assumptions based on theory. For example, the fact that in the

An off axis high temperature hydrothermal vent field has been discovered on the East Pacific Rise - see https://phys.org/news/2022-07-off-axis-high-temperature-hydrothermal-field-east.html ... It consists of at least

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220718122232.htm ... astromoners, or some of them, are saying the Large Magellanic  Cloud has a defunct black hole as it doesn't appear to show

A bright comet in the inner solar system - and it swinging past Earth at the moment. Get out your binoculars. See https://phys.org/news/2022-07-k2-brightest-comet-solar-earth.html ... for

At https://phys.org/news/2022-07-arthur-stone-year-old-monument-king.html ... Arthur's Stone is a 5000 + years old Neolithic chambered tomb in Herefordshire. It is little more than a few stones sticking

At https://phys.org/news/2022-07-dna-ancient-population-southern-china.html ... human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China have come up with a surprise. The genetics is published in Current Biology,

William sent in the link https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nasas-osiris-rex-bennu-finding-plastic-ball-pits-184718806.html ... NASAs Osiris Rex mission landed on the surface of asteroid Bennu in order to bring a sample back

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220705112248.html  ... ESAs Rosetta Mission collected date from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, between 2014 and 2016. Some of the data sent back, especially the dust samples,

At https://spaceweather.com of July 10th 2022. Back in 1962, the US military deployed a thermonuclear warhead 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It is known

Sent in by William - https://www.yahoo.com/news/near-perfect-30-000-old-172649386.html ... found by miners in the Yukon Klondike, a 30,000 year old baby woolly mammoth. It still has intact

The explosive eruption of the Hunga Tonga submarine volcano in January 2022 was usual in that it involved shooting a large amount of seawater into

The Tenoumer Crater is situated in the desert of Mauritania. It is 1.9 km wide and the bottom of the crater is covered in a