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The Laschamp Excursion
20 February 2021 > CatastrophismGary sent in a link to https://theconversation.com/we-found-the-first-australian-evidence-of-a-... ... but the story can be found elsewhere. Evidence has been found of the Laschamp excursion in Australia
African Population Collapse
15 February 2021 > ArchaeologyAt www.heritagedaily.com/2021/02/disease-epidemic-possibly-caused-populatio... .... a population crash in central Africa between AD400 and 600 is suggested in a study published in Science Advances this month. This
Bunurong Aborigine Myth
15 February 2021 > CatastrophismWilliam also supplied a link to www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2021/02/10/mega-tsunamis-chinese-junks-and-port... ... which harks back to Gavin Menzies book, and the decision by China to become inward following a
Stonehenge Removals
14 February 2021 > ArchaeologyWilliam has sent in several links, including this one at https://uk.news.yahoo.com/stonehenge-may-rebuilt-welsh-stone-000200638.html ... which concerns the blustones which were originally set up around the circumference of
Earth Wind
14 February 2021 > ElectromagnetismThis story comes from www.spaceweather.com/2021/02/12/a-new-form-of-space-weather-earth-wind/ ... or just go to web site site and click on 12th February 2021 - we know the Sun is
Plasma Rain
12 February 2021 > AstronomyAmazing image at www.spaceweather.com, February 10th, 2021, of a huge cloud of solar plasma suspended above the Sun's surface. It is not stable as blobs
Hunting Sharks
12 February 2021 > ArchaeologyAt www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-indigenous-groups-brazil-h... ... why did indigenous peoples in Brazil hunt shark? The full works. Tiger sharks, great whites and hammerhead sharks. Not only did they
Neanderthals in the North Sea
7 February 2021 > ArchaeologyAt www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/June-2009/Early-migrant-fell-asl... ... this site archive is proving to be something of a treasure trove and well worth exploring with a beady eye. This time
A Jurassic Rift
7 February 2021 > GeologyAt www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/July-2017/OLS-Jurassic-Brexit ... actually, the first sign of the rift began in the Triassic but it was accelerated in the mid Jurassic. At this time
Heat of Ryugu
7 February 2021 > AstronomyThe Japanese space mission to the asteroid Ryugu was a success and it is now on its way to meet another asteroid even further away.
Doggie Archaeologists
5 February 2021 > ArchaeologyAccording to the Indpendent dogs are now contributing to archaeology - and they have a picture of a dog to prove it, using its big
Loess Build Up
3 February 2021 > GeologyAt https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/unmatched-dust-storms-raged-o... ... another story about dustg. This time, during the frozen landscapes of the last Ice Age. Huge dust storms swirled across the frozen
Dust and Monsoons
3 February 2021 > GeologyWilliam sent in a link to this story. It is about scientists trying to understand why it was greener in the Sahara during the early
Rep G3 COVID peptide therapeutic
3 February 2021 > BiologyRep G3 inhibits the SARS2 coronavirus induced IL-6 IL-1b TNFa & IL-9 cytokines which cause COVID-19 disease. This is a nwly developed safe and effective
Holocene Hockey Stick
29 January 2021 > Climate changeCoinciding with the election win by you know who we suddenly have a study that purports to show Holocene temperatures were the equivalent of the
Sulfur on Venus
29 January 2021 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2021-01-purported-phosphine-venus-ordinary-sulfur.... ... in September, and posted on the News, a team in the UK claimed they had detected the chemical phosphine in the thick
Expanding Atlantic
28 January 2021 > GeologyGary sent in a link to this story at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9192955/ ... but you can also read it at https://phys.org/news/2021-01-geological-phenomenon-widening-atlantic-oc... ... but the Daily Mail has
Big Dinosaurs
23 January 2021 > BiologyWilliam sent in a link via Yahoo to this story but we can also read it at https://phys.org/news/2021-01-gigantic-dinosaur-unearthed-argentina-larg... ... Agentinosaurus was found in 2012 but
Woolly Mammoths Lived On
23 January 2021 > ArchaeologyGary also sent in this link to the discovery that mammoths and horses may have carried on living in North America much later than the
Cursus on Arran
23 January 2021 > ArchaeologyThe Scotsman also has news of the unexpected discovery of a cursus monument, a kilometer in length, found on the Isle of Arran - see