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An interesting riposte by an Australian geologist of note, Ian Plimer, to climate alarmist reporters who took exception to an article of his in The

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-power-deinosuchus-teeth-size-bananas.html .... I can remember one of my grandsons enthusiastically describing the size of this crocodile's teeth some years ago. He missed a trick

Sent in by William. At https://www.yahoo.com/news/fossil-fearsome-hell-ant-used-183903680.html ... the fossil of a hell ant, belonging to the Cretaceous, is described as a fearsome beast. Captured in

At https://spaceweather.com (6th August, 2020) .. we are told that cycle 25 is now definitely coming to life. We even have a sunspot facing in

This one comes courtesy of Hokkaido University - see www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/new-insight-into-the-origin-of-water-on-th... ... with the actual research paper published in Scientific Reports - see https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64815-6 ... Japanese

At https://spaceweather.com  (3rd August 2020) .. a stream of solar wind has arrived and is causing geomagnetic  unrest around the poles. It is blowing out

The link was sent in by Robert - go to https://crev.info/2020/08/scientists-retract-dino-bird-paper/ ... which takes us back to a small fossil found in amber. It was

At https://notrickszone.com/2020/08/03/during-the-last-glacial-maximum-fire... ... during the Late Glaical Maximum, when ice sheets are thought to have been at their greatest extent (in the last 100,000 years),

Sent in by William and sitting in my 'to do' tray for a couple of weeks. At www.yahoo.com/news/archaeologists-solved-longstanding-mystery-stonehenge... ... which concerns the big sarsen stones.

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200731180717.htm ... a sediment core from a Texas cave is said to  solve the mystery of what set in motion the Younger Dryas event.

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-neanderthal-cave... ... basically, what we have here  apart from the discovery of a Neanderthal presence in some caves in Italy is evidence of sea

The link was provided by Gary. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8577081/ ... and concerns an mysterious cloud on Mars which is over 1000 miles in length. It was

New Chronology groups threw up a new paper by David Lappin, 'Observations of the Moon, Sirius, and Solar Eclipses: dating the MK and NK in

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/27/new-evidence-that-an-extraterrest... ago-triggered-an-abrupt-climate-change-for-earth/ ... new evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate change for earth. This is a new paper

At https://phys.org/news/2020-07-grape-pips-reveal-collapse-ancient.html ... grape pips revealed the collapse of the Roman empire involved plague and climate change. The paper is published in PNAS - see

This two links were sent in by Robert. At https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/preserved-mammoth-skeleton-f... ... where we are told that Russian scientists are in the process of retrieving a

Gary sent in this link to https://phys.org/news/2020-07-space-wasnt-dangerous-bacteria-deadly.html ... which is a piece that comes from The Conversation so is a question of opinion, validity unknown.

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/a-population-of-aste... ...  a population of asteroids with an interstellar origin inhabits our solar system. It seems the idea of interstellar objects captured by our

The Homeric Minimum is a postulated solar minimum event dated between 2800 and 2550 years ago, an inordinately long  time for the sun to remain

At https://phys.org/news/2020-07-humans-americas-years-earlier-previously.html ... humans in the Americas 15,000 years earlier than mainstream allowed. The findings are published in two Nature articles - see for example