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I'm sure this story, or something like it has been up on Thunderbolts at some time or the other. At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/nasas-juno-navigators-enable-... ... NASAs Juno missio

William sent a link to this story but see https://phys.org/news/2019-12-mass-extinction-sea-biodiversity-million.html ... the End of Permian mass extinction event 250 million years ago has had reams

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2019/12/the-worzel-deep-sea-ash/ ... we are told that there is a nickel rich ash layer on the bottom of the world's oceans. They imply all the

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-interstellar-comet-2iborisov-sun.html ... telescopes around the world have been focussed on Comet Borisov, the apparent interstellar visitor. It is moving so fast it has not

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/12/breathing-new-life-i... ... we are told there were at least three oxygenisation events that gave rise to Earth's breathable atmosphere - and they happened spontaneously.

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/12/sailing-stone-track-... ... a sand  stone slab which contains dinosaur footprints seems to also have marks suggesting a 'sailing stone' or 'walking rock' according to

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-penguins-dinosaurs-died.html ... and see also https://doi.org/10.26879/1009 ... a study published in Paleontologia Elekronika (December 2019) concerns the paleontological evolution of early penguins after the

Diets are big business. The fad for vegan diets is just the latest. We have had the F Plan for example - lots of home

An article in the journal Nature - see https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1818-7 ... and https://nature.com/article/s4586-019-1811-1 ... see also https://phys.org/news/2019-12-sun-close-up-reveals-atmosphere-highly.html ... concerns the highly energetic particles that are hurled

We know lots about the Roman stone trade and how they transported stone from quarries to building sites over long distances. Lots of Roman worked

A study in Current Biology 'Repeated evolution of divergent modes of herbivory in non-avian dinosaurs' at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.050 ... herbivore dinosaurs evolved many times over the

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-osiris-rex-mission-bennu-mysterious-partic... ... shortly after NASAs OSIRIS REx spacecraft arrived at Bennu it was discovered the asteroid was active - dislodging particles into space. After

At https://spaceweather.com/  (5th December 2019) we have details of a planetary wave supercharging noctilucent clouds in the southern hemisphere. NASAs AIM spacecraft detected the phenomena

Sent in by William - https://phys.org/news/2019-12-nasa-exoplanet-hunting-mission-natural-com... ... NASAs exoplanet hunting mission has caught images of a comet outburst in unprecedented detail - an explosive emission

Another mainstream theory ruptured it would seem. At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/12/02/astronomers-see-stars-slingin... ... stars and comets as dance partners, linked into a gravitational celestial interaction that was predicted

In Current Archaeology 358 (January 2020) we learn about the discovery of timbered houses in a Yorkshire quarry - at Killerby. They were preserved in

This comes from www.everythingselectric.com/eie-141/ ... and seems to have its origins at Thunderbolts (but see also www.everythingselectric.com/eie-140/ .... an interview with Montgomery Childs on the

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-justinianic-plague-landmark-pandemic.html ... which is derived from https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903797116 ... a new study shows the historicity of the Justinian pandemic is inconsistent with facts on the

At www.scotsman.com/news/people/painstaking-clean-up-of-scottish-viking-hoa... ... a painstaking clean-up process of a Viking hoard buried in Scotland over a thousand years ago is unlocking new information on their

Gary sent in this link to www.dailymail.co.uk/science-tech/article-7733203/ ... earth's rocky surface is the result of meteor bombardment as a result of extraterrestrial impacts smashing into