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It is calculated the asteroid/comet that struck the Earth at the K/T boundary was about 14 km across. The Chicxulub crater has a diameter of

At https://q-mag.org/sodom-annilhilated-by-meteorite-blast.html ... in 1908 a massive blast in Siberia flattened 2000 square kilometres of uninhabited taiga forestry. Curiously, no crater was found. Scientists explained

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/05/dna-study-jomon-woma... ... a Japanese DNA study on the bones of a Jomon woman on an island north of Hokkaido has found a genetic signature

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7023841/ ... the Moon has earthquakes - and is shrinking. Moonquakes occur because the Moon is tectonically active - and they cause it to

Another imponderable. Lots of things get trapped in amber but most are land mased animals and insects - or freshwater (from a wetland environment). One

The story comes from https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/05/remains-of-rare-preh... ... the remains of a prehistoric crocodile, known as a Thoracosauros, has been found inside a block of chalk. This

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7016057/ ... giant beavers once roamed North America, alongside woolly mammoths and giant sloths. They all disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene. These

The European export of plastic consumer waste to developing countries is coming to an end - and no word about it from David Attenbrough or

This one comes courtesy of https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/08/mapping-begins-of-lands-... ... a collation of 15 years research is being put together in a map of the bottom of the

At https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/run-tis050619.php .... the first image of a black hole has led to the next challenge - how to take sharper images in order to

At https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0213572 ... a human footprint that seems to shatter the peopling of the Americas mainstream song sheet. A sedimentary structure at Osome in southern

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/05/anglo-saxon-princely... ... (see also https://phys.org/news/2019-05-britain-king-tut-tomb-roadside.html) ... a small bump on a patch of grass in Essex, situated between a road and a railway line,

At https://phys.org/news/2019-05-complex-geology-contributed-deepwater-hori... ...  a research paper in Scientific Reports (May 7th 2019) says that complex geology in the Gulf of Mexico contributed to the Deepwater

At https://phys.org/news/2019-05-jets-galaxy-cores-common.html ... we are told astronomers have a rough understanding of how galaxies emit jets from their cores (presumably a reference to the jets

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2019/05/the-fossilization-... ... a bone bed in Spain from the Lower Cretaceous is offering up fossilised remains of dinosaurs, mammals, crocodiles, pterosaurs, lizards, tortoises, and

At www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/inscriptions/biblic... ... a new reading of the Moabite Stone by a team led by Finkelstein, Na-aman, and Romer, using high resolution photography (imaging) seems

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190425073625.htm ... a research paper in Scientific Reports (2019:9 (I) 10.1038/s41598-019-42670-4) claims there was a savannah grassland landscape in Borneo during the Late Pleistocene

At http://spaceweather.com (May 7th 2019) we learn about a potential earth directed CME emanating from the sun spot that has turned around to face the

Robert has sent in a number of links recently. This one involves the discovery of amino acids preserved in amber, apparently with an origin in

This refers not to boiling something in water but to the boiling point of heat, creating bubbles. At http://spaceweather.com (May 3rd 2019) we are informed