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At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-geologic-history-written-garnet-sand.html ... the eastern edge of New Guinea was or is a plate boundary it is thought and has therefore captured a bit of

One story circulating on the Net in the aftermath of Christmas covers a new study that is said to have found evidence of severe drought

Genetic research is spreading far and wide across the world, so much so it has now reached some very remote places - see https://phys.org/news/2021-01-genome-people-asia-stone-age.html ...

The recent outbreak of Covid 19 has triggered an enormous amount of new research on the various covid viral manifestations which has to be good.

An interesting one emerging from the woodwork. At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-breatharian-bacteria-breakdown-greenhouse-... ... breatherian bacteria break down greenhouse gases. Some bacteria living in soils can break down toxic

The headline at this link is, why have so few Milky Way supernovas  been observed over the last millennium? See https://phys.org/news/2021-01-milky-supernovae-millennium.html ... a mystery as

At https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/faces-of-siberian-tutankhamu... ... a tomb in Tuva  with the burial of a Scythian king and his favourite concubine is extremely well preserved and the faces

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