In the News

At http://siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/n0782-burial-site-of-siberi... ... it seems the Altai region is turning up a lot of archaeology - and is disseminating it through this excellent web site.

At http://phys.org/print398016399.html ... Australia shifts and tilts back and forth by several millimetres each year because of changes to the Earth's centre of mass (Journal

The Neanderthal/Denisovan surviving genes in modern humans has been taken up at http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2016/article/evolution-purged-... ... which again implies that the genetic inheritance from archaic humans such

I like this story - a nice conclusion after four years of research. It derives from an archaeological exploration in Maryland, at the site of

Presumably the theory of subduction (plates sliding beneath other plates and causing mountains to form) is still a theory - and has not been verified

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/11/colossal-body-of-magma-discovered-... ... Scientists have discovered the existence of a huge magmatic lake (composed of magma and water) 15km across below a dormant volcano in

At http://phys.org/print397900562.html ... when did the dinosaurs evolve? Silly question as the dinosaur evolution went into zoom mode when the Triassic epoch set in. Okay,

At http://phys.org/print397922025.html ... mainstream is trying to make sense of volatile behaviour around what they are convinced is a black hole at the centre of

At http://phys.org/print397902203.html ... we learn that Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko is younger than thought - but this is according to computer simulations made at the University of

At www.ibtimes.co.uk/prehistoric-greenlanders-ate-bowhead-whales-4000-years... ... which is a reference to the arrival of paleo-Eskimo culture in Greenland. How they got there is unknown but when they got

At http://phys.org/print397736203.html ... Mars has numerous pockets of magnetism locked up in its crust - but scientists assure us that Mars has no inner dynamo,

At http://phys.org/print397740334.html ... leaf fossils from Patagonia display evidence of insect feeding at the Cretaceous/Palaeogene boundary. AQs such, researchers claim that the ecosystem in South

Fossilised wood from trees, such as branches, twigs, stumps, broken trunks, and all manner of pieces of woody material which even include whole woodland floor

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2016/11/mysterious-pinging-sound-detected-... ... wildlife has disappeared - such as bowhead whales, bearded and ringed seals etc. Instead, a strange noise has been heard coming from

Everything we know about the formation of the solar system might be wrong - according to two astronomers that discovered the first 'binary-binary' (two massive

The white mountain, Mont Blanc (topped with white blancmange) has become a new front in the war against CAGW doomsayings - and big money manoeuvres

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37869985 ... an ancient stone with concentric circles, one inside the other, has been unearthed in the Dublin area. The stone is thought to

At http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl .... we learn that Curiosity Rover has come across an odd looking iron meteorite - the size of a golf ball. It is

At http://phys.org/print397315015.html ... humans settled in Australia around 50,000 years ago (and possibly even earlier). This applies to the interior outback as much as the

At http://phys.org/print397135082.html ... a team of researchers has presented a new model for the origins of Saturn's rings (see also www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103516305747 ... ). The lead