In the News

One for the album, as they say. At https://phys.org/news/2020-02-cartilage-cells-chromosomes-dna-million-ye... ... and just after I had written this up Robert came up with the same link.

This story comes from https://spaceweather.com (February 28th 2020) ... the surprising way solar storms beach grey whales. They strand themselves on beaches for no apparent

Sent in by William. At https://eos.org/articles/submarine-canyons- breed-megawaves-in-japan/ ... submarine canyons on the continental shelf system offshore of Toyama Bay in Japan seem to be involved

At https://climatechangedispatch.com/geologic-heat-ocean-warming/ ... one of the favourite alarmist memes is that of ocean warming - and ocean warming off the east coast of the US

At www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00510-w .... archaeology at Megiddo - Biblical Armageddon. The last battle - the last conflagration etc. The mound of the city is SE of

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8038783/ .... massive shellls of extinct Pleistocene armadillos have been found in Argentina. In fact, a graveyard of giant armadillos - found in a

From Earth to Mars - and now we have Jupiter. Link sent in by Robert - beginning with www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/02/21/juno-looking-deep-into-jupiters-atmos... ... which amounts to more results

   ... Denmark has been enjoying the huge amounts of rainfall we have been experiencing in the UK. The image shown was taken by photographer

At https://phys.org/news/2020-02-human-populations-survived-toba-volcanic.html .... human populations survived with little effect, the so called Toba life ending super volcano that erupted 74,000 years ago. Another study on

We've had a rash of fireball reports recently, in different parts of the world. We begin with one that ocurred  in September last year above

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/02/21/start-of-dog-ocene-dated-to-at-le... .... the title of this piece, the start of the dogocene is dated 'at least' 28,500 years ago. The dogocene = the emergence

At www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-urban-megasites-may-reshape-history-... ... ancient 'megasites' may reshape what we think is the history of urban life - and how towns and cities evolved. The spotlight

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