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The North Dakota fossil site that caused a stir when it was uncovered a few years ago has now come up with the information the

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/saturn-rings-may-formed-surprisingly-140557633.html .... but see also https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230512144752.htm ... new study puts a definitive age on Saturn's rings. They are young. No

At https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03005-6 .... we are all used to climate change alarmists telling us we only have a few years left before the world becomes too

At https://spaceweather.com ... September 28th 2023, there is a  reference to Van Gogh waves in the magnetosphere. The idea comes from his painting, 'A Starry

At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yedoma ... Yedoma are Pleistocene age permafrost pockets with ice content at 50 to 90 per cent by volume. Yedoma are abundant in eastern

Robert sent in the link https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/doi/pii/S0195667123002057 and https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/fossils-of-primitive-cousins-of-t-rex-shed-light-on-the-end-of-the-age-of-dinosaurs-in-africa/ ... together with https://www.icr.org/article/more-flood-evidence/ ... which is clear evidence of a disconnect. This is not evidence of

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-predicts-large-asteroid-impact-191317759.html ... NASA scientists even name the guilty asteroid. It is Bennu. It was discovered in 1999 and has an

At https://www.rferl.org/a/dog-wolves-wooly-rhinos-beasts-russia-permafrost-melting/30318303.html ... the Russian permafrost deposits harbour the well preserved remains of prehistoric animals - in remote, icy , locations. Large patches of earth

Gary sent in the link https://scitechdaily.com/moons-mystery-moisture-electrons-from-earth-may-be-forming-lunar-water/ ... high energy electrons in earth's plasma sheet, or sheaf, are conributing to weathering processes on the surface of

TeHEP newsletter 15th and 16th September 2023. Interesting interview published with Steve Collins on 16 years excavations at Tall el-Hammam in Jordan. It seems he

At https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-more-than-100-ancient-drawings-in-a-spanish-cave-180982898/ ... At Millares, near Valencia, down south, we now have Palaeolithic cave art. Most of the known cave art is located in northern

At https://phys.org/news/2023-09-solar-orbiter-solution-year-old-mystery.html ... which has an image of the Sun's corona as seen by a beamed down product of Solar Orbiter's Metis instrument. There is

Gary sent in a story from the New York Times but it is paywalled. A fireball seen crashing into Jupiter. However, it is nothing new

Staying on the subject of North Africa, this post concerns the Sahel. Previously known as the Sudan, which is now the name of a country

At https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-really-turned-sahara-desert-green-oasis-wasteland-180962668/ ... this article is about the disappearance of the green Sahara, rather abruptly, around 4500 years ago. Most scientists have linked it either

A new study claims humans nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago. This apparently happened on four other occasions - it is estimated. Gary sent in

At https://www.netzerowatch.com/pyrenean-caves-reveal-a-warmer-past/ ... which is by David Whitehouse, who used to work for the BBC - a long while ago. The mountains of the world

At https://phys.org/news/2023-09-venusian-atmosphere-meteors-lightning.html ... planetary scientists are suggesting that  periodic flashes of light in the atmosphere of Venus, picked by  spacecraft and probes, may not come

At https://phys.org/news/2023-09-webb-accuracy-universe-expansion-deepens.html ... apparently, the James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the rate at which the universe is expanding. Not a suprise as the Hubble

Scientific Reports from the journal Nature - see https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14684-y ... tells us the Holocene, beginning around 11,700 years ago, has been punctuated by large scale