The story comes via Hertfordshire Geological Society and a talk by Richard Butler of Birmingham University. See the web site of the society at https://www.hertsgeolsoc.org.uk … There are 14 dinosaur track sites at the moment – in England, Wales, and Scotland. They date back to the late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous. The latest, in Oxfordshire, has been in the media news of late. Other sites exist in Dorset, the Isle of Wight, and South Wales.
At https://phys.org/news/2026-01-age-fishes-began-mass-death.html … The Age of Fishes began in the aftermath of a mass extinction event that killed off 85 per cent of all marine species. Sounds like a major event but that is not the subject of the research – which is the advent of fishes as we now know them, in the following geological strata. The Late Ordovician mass extinction event is known from rocks that contain life forms that didn’t reappear, later. During what is described as a blink of an eye in geological time, glaciers formed over Gondwana, drying out many of the vast shallow seas like a sponge. An icehouse climate ensued – and a changed ocean chemistry and extent. Following the event an unprecedented richness of vertebrate life developed – and fish became more common in the oceans.
At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/01/fossils-found-at-the-peak-of-mount-everest/ … marine fossils found at the top of Mount Everest have perplexed people we are told. How did they get there? The discovery provides us with a glimpse of how Earth’s landscape has changed over millions of years. Mainstream claim it is the result of plate tectonics – a drifting Indian subcontinent bumping into Asia and causing the Himalayas to rise up, incrementally. One plate subducting under another, and crumpling and buckling rocks in the process. However, there are out there, mostly in books now, that have alternative theories of the mountain building process. It is not as settled as one might think going by the confidence of mainstream when the subject pops up in public forums. Another theory might revolve around how a succession of catastrophic and extinction events over millions of years could have changed the shape of landscape by other means. Plate Tectonics is not necessarily so. It is an assumption that India is a separate piece of continent – even a sub continent. An Expanding Earth model, for example, would provide a quite different view.
We know that Lake Titicaca, now sat high in the Andes, was during the last glacial period, a coastal lagoon. At some stage it was elevated by tectonic processes, or whatever. Something similar may have elevated the Himalaya Mountains. In fact, mountain building is a bit of a mystery as subduction zones are not as numerous as the mountain chains. I have several books on the subject – and the web site https://ncgtjournal.com .. has many thoughtful articles that question mainstream theories.