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Gary sent in this link - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10070379/ ... a mass extinction in Africa and Arabia - 30 million years ago. According to the Daily Mail,

At https://phys.org/news/2021-10-cool-oasis-cretaceous-feathered-dinosaurs.... ... dinosaur fossils have been popping up galore in parts of China in recent years. The Jehol Biota, in particular, in NE China,

At https://phys.org/news/2021-10-hidden-mangrove-forest-yucatan-peninsula.html ... this story is all about the vagaries of computer modeling and how conclusions can be reached by not factoring in all the

At https://phys.org/news/2021-09-hidden-chamber-vanguard-cave-gorham.html ... Gorham's Cave complex on Gibraltar. A new cave has been found, branching off from Vanguard cave - but at a higher level.

At https://phys.org/news/2021-09-species-large-predatory-dinosaur-isle.html ... the Isle of Wight has been a good hunting ground for dinosaur fossil bones over the years. The Wight is derived from

At https://phys.org/news/2021-09-sunlight-filtering-venus-clouds-earth-like... ... sunlight filtering through the Venus thick atmosphere could support earth like photosynthesis in the cloud layers. Chemical conditions are potentially amenable to

Gary sent in the link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10041411/ ... Mars surface was carved by fast and furious floods from overflowing craters - with enough water released in

Sent in by William via a Smithsonian link that would not print out. The story can be found at the local level - see https://cumbriaguide.co.uk/excavation-of-carlisle-roman-bathhouse-uncove...

The Week That Was newsletter of September 25th 2021 - see www.sepp.org ... and provides some news from the UN before plunging into a recent

At https://spaceweather.com   [25th September 2021] we have a short video clip by a photographer in Puerto Rica using a Sony A7 camera. He shows

In the TeHEP newsletter of 24th September 2021 [go to www.tallelhammam.com to sign up for the newletter] we learn from Stee Collins, the lead archaeologist

William sent in the link to this story - www.yahoo.com/news/oldest-human-footprints-north-america-225106590.html ... according to a report published in the journal Science [23rd September 2021] footprints found

The Week That Was, the weekly newsletter of www.sepp.org ... has a piece by Ken Haapala, president of SEPP, that some may find rather revealing

Robert sent in the link to https://phys.org/news/2021-09-groundwater-ice-sheets-largest-reservoir.html ... with the comment that deep hot water was found at the Kola super deep bore hold, casting

Sent in by Gary- www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10009433/ ... ancient Mars was dotted with thousands of massive super volcanoes discovered after scientists mistook their extinct calderas as craters

Robert sent in a link to an article that claims volcanoes did not cause the extinction of the dinosaurs - a counter view to the

The Trinity South West excavations at Tall el-Hammam in Jordan has been published at last - in the journal Nature Scientific Reports. It is a

A post at Tall Bloke's talk shop - https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/09/20/earth-can-makes-its-own-auroras/ .. which is derived from https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/09/20/earth-can-makes-its-own-auroras/ ... earth can manufacture its own auroras, we are told,

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/09/09/the-creatceous-geology-of-alabama... ... the author, a geologist, comments on an article in Hakai magazine [which you can get to online]. It revolves around a paleontological

At https://notrickszone.com/2021/09/09/scientists-increasingly-agree-the-la... ... scientists have been forced to accept that during the Late Glacial Maximum summers were several degrees warmer than in the modern world.