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Do crocodiles confound evolution, the idea that life forms evolve over time. One to ponder at https://phys.org/news/2021-01-crocodiles-age-dinosaurs.html ... whilst it is probably the way the

At https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/prehistoric-people-devel... ... prehistoric Siberians developed a technique for turning woolly mammoth ivory into a playdough like material that was easily worked. Going back 12,000

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/first-detection-of-a-built-in... ... seems like Tall Bloke got his story from EOS - see https://eos.org/research-spotlights/first-detection-of-a-built-in-wobble... ... the Earth's equivalent, we are told, is the Chandler

The headline talks about Doggerland sinking but the meat of the story seems to be a change in sea levels. At www.dw.com/en/doggerland-how-did-the-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-sink/a-55... ... Doggerland, the

At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-uncertainties-cosmic-expansion.html ... There are different methods for determining the cosmic rate of expansion of the universe, and these have revealed precise but mutually inconveniently

Both William and Gary sent in links to this story. At www.yahoo.com/news/woolly-rhino-remains-found-melting-151024751.html ... and www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9096475/ ... the carcass of a woolly rhinoceros, a juvenile, has

Robert sent in these links which have an interesting take on Velikovsky, who had amassed a lot of interested from students of the period. https://archive.org/details/vkvbd

Gary sent in this link, www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-forgotten-volcanic-eruptions-in-history-... ... we know that dendrochronologists were happy wen the ice core people were persuaded to to accept a 7

No, this is not a jokesey headline. At https://phys.org/news/2020-12-covid-neandertals.html ... but to read the full story go to www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2818-3 ... could Covid 19 have wiped

At https://phys.org/news/2020-12-evidence-massive-paleo-tsunami-ancient-tel... ... evidence of a massive ancient tsunami wave that struck near Tel Dor on the Levantine coast around 9000 years ago. This is

Some interesting studies have been published in December. Robert has sent three links, the first of which is at https://phys.org/news/2020-12-prehistoric-dinosaurs-mammals-teeth.html ... which has been added

This doesn't concern modern doom mongering but real ocean acidifiction, in the remoter past. Back in the Cretaceous period - and perhaps related to a

Hidden in the  sands of Arabia are archaeological surprises. See www.arabnews.com/node/1779861/saudi-arabia ... and these include ancient stone carvings and evidence of a land that once

A prehistoric crocodile, 5m in length, lived in SE Queensland wetland evirons for most of the last 55 million years. Its skull measured around 65cm

At https://phys.org/news/2020-12-population-blue-whales-western-Indian.html ... the article comes with some images of  whales, courtesy of an environmental society in Oman. A new population of blue whales has

At https://phys.org/news/2020-12-ancient-wolf-pup-mummy-uncovered.html ... water is used to blast Alaskan muck by gold mining operations. This one is in the  Yukon rather than Alaska but it

Also one of  Garys links. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9078899/ ... we learn that a meteor that exploded in earth's atmosphere back in 2008 was once part of

Sent in by Gary - 4 links. Two of them are below. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9075429/ ... archaeologists have dug up the remains of an Iron Age

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/21/eastern-alps-may-have-been-ice-fr... ... the eastern side of the Alps may have been ice free in the life time of Otzi the iceman. It might  have

The majority of cosmologists appear to have opted for dark matter as a way of explaining the odd behaviour of distant galaxies. However, there has