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This discovery sufaced a couple of weeks ago and may already have been mentioned but here is a new link - https://phys.org/news/2020-02-archaeologists-lost-city-conquered-kingdom... ... archaeologists from

Robert sent in several links on the same subject - such as www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200221102126.htm ... a well preserved horned lark has been found in Siberian permafrost

Sent in by Gary. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8021347/ ... fossils of catfish and tilapia have been found in the Sahara, one of the locations being a rock

At www.sciencealert.com/dinosaurs-were-warm-blooded-after-all-ancient-eggsh... ... this and the following links were sent in by Robert. Were dinosaurs cold blooded, like reptiles, or warm blooded, like birds. A

Also sent in by Gary, ( www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8015685/ ... and by William. The skeleton of a Neanderthal individual (sex as yet undetermined) that lived around 70,000

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8017223/ ... a burial site of victims of the Black Death (14th century AD) has been uncovered at Thornton Abbey in Lincolnshire in what

At https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0604029v2.pdf ... we have an interesting paper by Woelfli and Baltensperger, 'Ancient East Siberia had a lower latitude in the Pleistocene' ... they begin

At https://phys.org/news/2020-02-dinosaur-blood-vessels-ages.html .. scientists in the US have been analysing via infrared, X-rays, and spectromicroscopy, dinosaur remains in order to dscover how soft tissue managed

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/boom-and-bust-for-an... ... the sea dragons in question are ichthyosaurs - fish like reptiles that filled an evolutionary niche in the oceans equivalent to modern

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-necropolis-of-as... ... concerns the acropolis of Asyut - which goes back 4000 years. An ancient city with its temples, palaces, libraries and houses was

Gary sent in this link - temple near Jerusalem challenges the claim there was just one temple in Jerusalem, that of Solomon. This appears to

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/extinct-giant-turtle... ... an extinct giant turtle had a horned shell. The fossil hails from South America and has brothers in arms - such as

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/scientists-show-sola... ... scientists show solar system processes control the carbon cycle - throughout Earth's history (or at least that part of it in which

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/oral-traditions-and-... ... Aborigines and traditions. It seems some of these traditions allude to volcanic eruptions and meteors - and some of them may date

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/ghost-of-mysterious-... ... Another ghost population indicated by genetics. This time it is in Africa - and concerns the ancestors of West African Bantu (or

At https://phys.org/news/2020-02-galactic-cosmic-rays-affect-titan.html ... the Atacama Telescope Array in Chile has been looking at Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. They found a chemical footprint in

At www.miragenews.com/5200-year-old-cereal-grains-from-eastern-altai-mounta... ... cereal grains dating back 5200 years ago (3200BC) have been discovered in the eastern Altai mountains (on the China side). The Altai

Time for a spot of geology. At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/02/twist-in-the-story-o... ... an emerging mainstream consensus view suggests gases, and in particular carbon gases, released by the Siberian

At http://lyme-online.co.uk/news/phoenician-ship-completes-atlantic-voyage/ ... the lyme online refers to Lyme Regis and Uplyme in Dorset (for overseas readers) and is situated on the Jurassic coastline. The

This comes courtesy of Anne Marie de Grazia. I haven't noticed it on mainstream but it was published in the journal Science so it must