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Robert sent in these links which have an interesting take on Velikovsky, who had amassed a lot of interested from students of the period. https://archive.org/details/vkvbd

Gary sent in this link, www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-forgotten-volcanic-eruptions-in-history-... ... we know that dendrochronologists were happy wen the ice core people were persuaded to to accept a 7

No, this is not a jokesey headline. At https://phys.org/news/2020-12-covid-neandertals.html ... but to read the full story go to www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2818-3 ... could Covid 19 have wiped

At https://phys.org/news/2020-12-evidence-massive-paleo-tsunami-ancient-tel... ... evidence of a massive ancient tsunami wave that struck near Tel Dor on the Levantine coast around 9000 years ago. This is

Some interesting studies have been published in December. Robert has sent three links, the first of which is at https://phys.org/news/2020-12-prehistoric-dinosaurs-mammals-teeth.html ... which has been added

This doesn't concern modern doom mongering but real ocean acidifiction, in the remoter past. Back in the Cretaceous period - and perhaps related to a

Hidden in the  sands of Arabia are archaeological surprises. See www.arabnews.com/node/1779861/saudi-arabia ... and these include ancient stone carvings and evidence of a land that once

A prehistoric crocodile, 5m in length, lived in SE Queensland wetland evirons for most of the last 55 million years. Its skull measured around 65cm

At https://phys.org/news/2020-12-population-blue-whales-western-Indian.html ... the article comes with some images of  whales, courtesy of an environmental society in Oman. A new population of blue whales has

At https://phys.org/news/2020-12-ancient-wolf-pup-mummy-uncovered.html ... water is used to blast Alaskan muck by gold mining operations. This one is in the  Yukon rather than Alaska but it

Also one of  Garys links. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9078899/ ... we learn that a meteor that exploded in earth's atmosphere back in 2008 was once part of

Sent in by Gary - 4 links. Two of them are below. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9075429/ ... archaeologists have dug up the remains of an Iron Age

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/21/eastern-alps-may-have-been-ice-fr... ... the eastern side of the Alps may have been ice free in the life time of Otzi the iceman. It might  have

The majority of cosmologists appear to have opted for dark matter as a way of explaining the odd behaviour of distant galaxies. However, there has

Ireland does not seem to have many rock strata from the Jurassic or Cretaceous and has until now been devoid of dinosaur remains. A story

The whereabouts of Punt have long exercised the minds of revisionists ever since Velikovsky proposed that it referred to the Holy Land = the southern

At https://eos.org/articles/earths-magnetic-field-holds-clues-to-human-hist... ... this is one of those stories about a break through that may reveal more than what was intended. It seems the fiery

Gary sent in the link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9052229/ ... climate change was responsible for the collapse of farming cultures in central Asia in the 12th and 13th

Remaining on the theme of unforeseen facts cropping up at a later date we have a story at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9029805/ ... Japanese researchers have mapped a

Robert has sent in the links below, one of which as already appeared on the News. However, his sources are not mainstream and are a