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At https://phys.org/print437125828.html ... in this instance, clay formation on the planet Mars. Temperature on Mars is well below freezing but it must once have been

At https://phys.org/print437129335.html ... HINODE captures record breaking solar magnetic field. A sun spot observed by the HINODE spacecraft. Astronomers in Japan discovered the largest magnetic

It's been pretty cold in the US - especially in the NE. Over in the UK we have had some cold spells - nothing out

Gary sent in this link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5359111/Billions-viruses-bacteri... ... courtesy of British Columbia. Not exactly the same as Hoyle and Wickramasinghe and 'Diseases from Space' as the

Robert also sent in this link at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5345049/Did-ancient-Greeks-sail-... ... did ancient Greeks sail to Canada. The idea if is based on something mentioned by the

Robert sent in the link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5343567/Thousands-Mayapyramids-p... ... which concerns the use of LIDAR technology to peer through the tree canopy and image the ground surface

Sent in by Gary - at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5346517/Ancient-humans-witnessed... ... here we are back at the Younger Dryas boundary event. If nothing else these guys are persistent.

Javan sent in two links to this story - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2018/01/31/stone-tools-from... ... and www.scientificamerican.com/article/stone-tools-from-india-fan-debate-ove... ... a cache of stone tools from SE India, not far from

William has picked up on another dinosaur story at https://phys.org/print436616782.html ... a slab of sandstone found at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland

Gary sent this link to his web site - at www.godkingscenario.com/blog/dinosaurs-mongolia-rapidly-buried-extraterr... ... which refers to an article I looked at but did not report, on

The conspiracy continues, it would seem. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/30/greenland-getting-colder-but-plea... ... a guest author says, Greenland is getting colder but please, keep believing it is getting warmer.

At https://phys.org/print436523070.html ... giant earthquakes are not as random as thought. Analysis of sediment cores from lakes in Chile show that EQs reoccur at regular

William sent in this link - www.yahoo.com/news/earth-apos-magnetic-poles-show-185939488.html ... apparently, earth's north and south magnetic poles, in the past, used to flip regularly, at 200 to

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/oldest-man-made-st... ... I missed this back in 2010 - a 23,000 year old stone wall in front of a cave in Lalambaka in Greece,

William sent in the link, www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-human-genomes-reveal-complicated-183200123.html ... but see also https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/ancient-eurasian-d... ... where the genetics of modern humans appear to contradict fossil evidence of modern

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/fossil-bone-tissue... ... Dinosaurs dug out of rocks in Victoria State, Australia, more than 120 million years of age, had to deal with prolonged periods

At https://phys.org/print436100309.html ... various people sent in links to the same story. William fowarded the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/oldest-modern-human-found-ever-190004346.html ... an international team led by Israel Hershkovitz

This story is again interesting as far as changing sea levels and ocean configuration is concerned. At https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/archaeologists-survey-scotland-s-fore... ... archaeologists are surveying Scotland's submerged forests

A study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (January 2018) have been looking at lizards in Australasia, Melanesia and Polynesia. We are told

One from William. Why Halley's Comet may be linked to famine 1500 years ago. Sounds almost like Patrick McCafferty and Mike Baillie in their book,