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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

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