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At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-wildfires-permian-triassic-transition-vege... ... one aspect of the proposed meteor bombardment at the Younger Dryas boundary is purported evidence of wild fires - although the actual

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-early-humans-worst-effects-volcanic.html ... an interesting exercise in musical chairs. The Toba volcano in Indonesia is said to have erupted 74,000 years ago, but has been

At https://spaceweather.com [7th July 2021] https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/07/07/a-big-glowing-cloud-of-marsdust/ ... we learn that dust storms on Mars spill into space. According to research published in the AGU journal

This story is at https://notrickszone.com/2021/07/01/large-herbivores-grazed-on-grass-yea... ... large herbivores grazed on grass year round in the Arctic zone during the last Ice Age. The blog author

Allabogdanite is associated with meteors - see https://phys.org/news/2021-06-mineral-previously-meteorites-dead-sea.html ... allabogdanite has been found in the Dead Sea region. This is an interesting observation as I

William also sent in the link www.yahoo.com/news/dinosaurs-may-already-going-extinct-214432199.html ... it begins by telling us a space rock struck earth 66 million years ago, dooming the dinosaurs.

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-mercury-big-iron-core-magnetism.html ... the prevailing theory that Mercury has a big iron core relative to its crust is under attack. The consensus theory is that

Sent in by William - www.whitehorsestar.com/News/mammoth-skeletons-called-super-exciting ... placer miners in the Dawson gold fields regularly find the bones of Ice Age animals, including those of

A man buried in Latvia some 5000 years ago had an early form of Yersinia pestis [the plague] - see https://phys.org/news/2021-06-year-old-earliest-strain-plague.html ... and scientists are

This story came out last month but Phys.Org have updated it - see https://phys.org/news/2021-06-ancient-snake-finland.html ... The snake in question is made of wood and its

The Fragradalsfjall volcano on the Reykjanes peninsular of Iceland began to erupt in March. It is still ejecting large volumes of liquid basaltic lava -

This story can be seen at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/07/02/icelandia-is-iceland-the-tip-... ... it seems a group of researchers think they may have identified a geological secret - a sunken

At www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/blog/2021/06/23/archaeology-mystery-fate-of-nea... .... Oxbow talks to Dr April Nowell, author of 'Growing Up in the Ice Age' on the subject of the extinction of the

At https://phys.org/news/2021-06-ancient-civilization-shift.html .... is another one in the long line of Younger Dryas to and fro. We are told a cluster of comet fragments nearly

At https://phys.org/news/2021-06-dragon-fossil-neanderthals-closest-relativ... ... a near perfect fossilised human skull was found in the 1930s in Harbin City in the Heilongjong province of China. It belongs

Sent in by William. Keep up the good work. See https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dinosaurs-may-lived-arctic-permanently-1... ... some dinosaurs may have lived in the Arctic on a permanent basis. The

This one came up at Tall Blokes talk shop - see https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/06/22/giant-arc-stretching-3-3-bill... ... a giant arc of galaxies stretching 3.3 billion light years across the

Now that it has been established that Venus might be tectonically active we are now getting into it being an accepted fact of life. It

Painted Lady butterflies cross the Sahara during their migration from the Sahel to Europe - see https://phys.org/news/2021-06-butterflies-sahara-longest-known-insect-mi... ... Painted Ladies are an iconic butterfly but

At https://spaceweather.com on June 23rd 2021 astronomers announce the discovery of a comet so big it might actually be a small planet. The object has