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Neil Oliver, once a BBC regular and commentator on archaeology and history, and the author of several fascinating books on our past, has published a

William sent in the link and Robert was aware of the story as well. See for example https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/experts-stumble-on-sandstone-slabs-with-footprints-of-entire-280-million-year-old-ecosystem-that-predate-dinosaurs/ar-AA1uzyvN ... a discovery in the Italian Alps

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/scientists-havent-saved-the-ozone-layer-master-resource/ ... which is derived from another source. Back in 2015 scientists were predicting the ozone hole would have been reduced by at least

At https://phys.org/news/2024-11-megafauna-mystery-australia-year-cold.html .... Australian megafauna were common in the Late Pleistocene period. They appear to have rapidly increased in size after 2.5 million years ago

At https://phys.org/news/2024-11-scotland-plague-reveals-humanity-black.html ... a University of Aberdeen study has been looking at the last outbreak of bubonic plague in Scotland, during the 1640s. It coincided

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/medieval-king-arthur-site-is-4-000-years older-than-we-thought ...  medieval is used rather loosely as it is immediate post-Roman period where King Arthur is usually located. This is 4000 years

Staying within a space theme we have astrophysicist Sophie Koudmani taking a fress look at black holes - but not straying too far from consensus

Both Robert and Gary sent in separate links to this story - at https://www.earth.com/news/earth-may-have-captured-the-moon-from-space/ ... I may already have posted  this story but no harm

At https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/god-of-chaos-asteroid-may-be-transformed-by-tremors-and-landslides-during-2029-flyby-of-earth-study-finds ...  the asteroid Apophis flyby in 2029 might not be so tranquil as astronomers have been telling us. Its close passage to Earth

There is a new article out on the order of Apis bulls published in the German journal Zeitschrift fur Agyptische Sprache by Robert Porter. It

At https://www.space.com/pluto-problem-time-to-rethink-definition-of-a-planet .... back in 2006, Pluto was downgraded. It was not a planet anymore as far as astronomers were concerned. One reason was the

At https://phys.org/news/2024-10-south-polynesian-seafarers.html ... a couple of weeks ago we had a post about Malays colonising Madagascar. This week we have Polynesians sailing way south of

At https://phys.org/news/2024-11-black-hole-kerr-solution-assumptions.html ... another one to get the brain working overtime. We learn that the properties of black holes are now being challenged by a

Robert sent in this cracker. At https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-are-now-searching-for-dark-matter-inside-old-earth-rocks-minerals-crystals/ ... failing to find dark matter in space, yet alone its pal, dark energy, scientists are now searching

Robert sent in a couple of links. At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/lasers-reveal-maya-city-including-thousands-of-structures-hidden-in-mexico ... a US archaeologist, using LiDAR maps of forestry scientists, discovered what looks like a mega-city

Mainstream have had a field day making out Ptolemy's historical reconstruction was flawed - just as they think ancient Greeks were wrong about eclipse dates

At https://phys.org/news/2024-10-gamma-rays-milky-core.html ... an international research team including people from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, observed hig energy gamma rays at more than 100 teraelectron

William sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-research-shows-most-space-rocks-crashing-into-earth-come-from-a-single-source/ar-AA1sy4SM ... but see also https://www.space.com/earth-meteorites-asteroid-families?lrh=176 ... some meteorites come from the moon or Mars but the majority, they say,

At https://www.livescience.com/magnetic-flip-42000-years-ago.html ... a reversal of the Earth's magnetic field thousands of years ago plunged our planet into an environmental crisis. The magnetic north and

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/mysterious-blobs-in-earths-mantle-are-not-what-we-thought-study-claims .... not everyone was too pleased with the idea of blobs of unknown material residing in Earth's Mantle, in order to explain problems