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Ireland does not seem to have many rock strata from the Jurassic or Cretaceous and has until now been devoid of dinosaur remains. A story

The whereabouts of Punt have long exercised the minds of revisionists ever since Velikovsky proposed that it referred to the Holy Land = the southern

At https://eos.org/articles/earths-magnetic-field-holds-clues-to-human-hist... ... this is one of those stories about a break through that may reveal more than what was intended. It seems the fiery

Gary sent in the link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9052229/ ... climate change was responsible for the collapse of farming cultures in central Asia in the 12th and 13th

Remaining on the theme of unforeseen facts cropping up at a later date we have a story at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9029805/ ... Japanese researchers have mapped a

Robert has sent in the links below, one of which as already appeared on the News. However, his sources are not mainstream and are a

An interesting piece at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/the-canterbury-swarm-and-the-... ... which is a resurrection of an older story, the idea that monks at Canterbury witnessed an impact on the

At https://notrickszone.com/2020/12/07/12-indian-meteorologists-demonstrate... ... 12 Indian meteorologists demonstrate how warming can be discovered in temperature records. Another sign that Western science is taking a back seat

In Down to Earth geological magazine of November 2020  we have a story about a fossil tree found on Peru's altiplano [the central Andean plateau].

This came from http://cojs.org/the-last-days-of-ugarit/ ... one of the many cities and towns destroyed at the end of the LB age was Ugarit. For a time,

In one of those strange twists of fate we have this story at https://phys.org/news/2020-12-sediment-cores-dogger-littoral-island.html ... where it has been learnt that the Storegga Slide at

Finnish researchers have discovered phosphorous and flourine in solid dust particles collected from a comet. This measurement implies all the most important elements for creating

At https://phys.org/news/2020-11-ice-patch-norway-reveals-large.html ... this story is part of widespread exploration of retreating mountain glaciers around the world. In this instance it is Norway. The  melting

One hard to make up your mind about. Well, that depends of course. A faraway galaxy, we are told, is noted for its absence of

At https://phys.org/news/2020-11-comet-ld2-atlas-transitioning.html ... this is more on the idea of comets transitioning from Centaurs beyond Jupiter and moving through a gateway to become one of

At https://sciencex.com/news/2020-11-ancient-earth-thick-toxic-atmosphere.html ... and see also https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd1387 ... Venus has a thick toxic atmosphere is the premise with which it begins. Now, it seems, early

Rober sent in the two links www.space.com/steve-picket-fence-streaks-mystery ... and https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020AV000183 .. and comments, nobody knows what actually causes STEVE but they all do not think

At https://phys.org/news/2020-11-asteroid-vt4-skimmed-earth.html ... the impact audit system in Hawaii spotted a close pass by of an asteroid on the 14th November [2020]. It was just

At https://phys.org/news/2020-11-apophis-asteroid-earth-thought.html ... David Tholen, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, has been having another look at the asteroid Apophis, and at the path

Of interest to catastrophists one might assume. Ancient dust on the sea floor. However, once again the focus is on climate. rather than meteors or