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There is a sort of obsession with black holes by some astronomers and cosmologists. It may go back to their childhood and stories of dense

Robert sent in the link to this story at https://phys.org/news/2021-02-asteroid-crater-case-dinosaur-extinction.html ... where we learn that dust from the asteroid impact at the K/T boundary was

Ice Age theory includes the idea  that sea levels drop as ice is locked up on land, a theory that has never really been tested

A dip in coi2 - not now but back then. 214 million years ago. The magic gas strikes again - see https://phys.org/news/2021-02-co2-dip-dinosaurs-south-america.html ... which seems

At https://phys.org/news/2021-02-neanderthals-homo-sapiens-identical-nubian... ... Neanderthals and Modern Humans used identical Nubian stone technology we are told. Levallois flakes. Not only did they share a similar genome

William sent in this link to the story that the British Antarctic Survey team have made a bore hole through ice to the world below.

Gary sent in a link to https://theconversation.com/we-found-the-first-australian-evidence-of-a-... ... but the story can be found elsewhere. Evidence has been found of the Laschamp excursion in Australia

At www.heritagedaily.com/2021/02/disease-epidemic-possibly-caused-populatio... .... a population crash in central Africa between AD400 and 600 is suggested in a study published in Science Advances this month. This

William also supplied a link to www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2021/02/10/mega-tsunamis-chinese-junks-and-port... ... which harks back to Gavin Menzies book, and the decision by China to become inward following a

William has sent in several links, including this one at https://uk.news.yahoo.com/stonehenge-may-rebuilt-welsh-stone-000200638.html ... which concerns the blustones which were originally set up around the circumference of

This story comes from www.spaceweather.com/2021/02/12/a-new-form-of-space-weather-earth-wind/ ... or just go to web site site and click on 12th February 2021 - we know the Sun is

Amazing image at www.spaceweather.com, February 10th, 2021, of a huge cloud of solar plasma suspended above the Sun's surface. It is not stable as blobs

At www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-indigenous-groups-brazil-h... ... why did indigenous peoples in Brazil hunt shark? The full works. Tiger sharks, great whites and hammerhead sharks. Not only did they

At www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/June-2009/Early-migrant-fell-asl... ... this site archive is proving to be something of a treasure trove and well worth exploring with a beady eye. This time

At www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/July-2017/OLS-Jurassic-Brexit ... actually, the  first sign of the rift began in the Triassic but it was accelerated in the mid Jurassic. At this time

The Japanese space mission to the asteroid Ryugu was a success and it is now on its way to meet another asteroid even further away.

According to the Indpendent dogs are now contributing to archaeology - and they have a picture of a dog to prove it, using its big

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/unmatched-dust-storms-raged-o... ... another story about dustg. This time, during the frozen landscapes of the last Ice Age. Huge dust storms swirled across the frozen

William sent in a link to this story. It is about scientists trying to understand why it was greener in the Sahara during the early

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