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Sent in by Kevin. See https://phys.org/news/2020-10-anglo-saxon-warlord-detectorists-redraw-po... ... see also www.bbc.co.uk/news/ ... archaeologists have uncovered a warrior burial in Berkshire, southern England, on a hilltop site

At https://universetoday.com/148097/a-rogue-earth-mass-planet-has-been-disc... ... a rogue earth mass planet has been discovered freely floating in the Milky Way, without a star in attendance. Big news. The

At https://phys.org.news/2020-10-years-sea-level-alor-island.html ... a cave on Alor Island in Indonesia, located between Flores and Timor, has been intermittently occupied over 40,000 years. Sea levels in

The monsters are prehistoric  flying reptiles. The claim they had feathers is refuted in a new study - see https://phys.org/news/2020-09-naked-prehistoric-monsters-evidence-reptil... ... on the basis they

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-alignment-plane-solar.html ... a study of the motions of comets has led to the idea the solar system has a second alignment plane. At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-video-meteoroid-earth-atmosphere.html

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8786351/ ... which begins, snow melt caused by global warming .... reveals mummified penguins and hundreds of bones hidden for 5000 years - under

Oulton, near Lowestoft, famous for Oulton Broad, a large lake formed by peat extraction, now sports an important Anglo Saxon cemetery with 200 graves. It

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-modern-humans-westernmost-europe-years.html ... modern humans, in a new study, are said to have arrived in the westernmost parts of Europe between 41,000 and 38,000 years

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-venus-upstart-company-nasa-life.html ... Peter Beck of Rocket Lab has set is sights on launching a low cost probe into the atmosphere of Venus after learning

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-neandertals-male-sex-chromosome-modern.html ... the Neanderthal DNA sequence was first done in 1997 - but only on the skeletons of females. It was therefore based on

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/09/23/ecologists-confirm-alan-turin... ... which is said to solve the mystery. It seems Alan Turing's model explains the striking vegetation patterns that modify habitats and arid

At https://spaceweather.com [23rd September 2020] .. in a paper published in Nature Astronomy researchers describe how Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko was seen to turn vaporous jets of

Sent in by Gary. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8757271/ ... Spirosaurus is known from its teeth as much as from its bones. It is reputed to be the

Kevin sent in the link to www.sci-news.com/archaeology/alathar-footprints-08869.html ... human footprints going  back 120,000 years have been found in northern Saudi Arabia - together with those

Buried Alive. At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-eternal-sleeper-dinosaurs-unearthed-china.... ... another case of sleeping dinosaurs, in a hidie hole, being overwhelmed, buried, and preserved as a stone fossil.  ...  It

This was also sent in by Venus. William may also have sent in a link. At https://news.sky.com/story/signs-of-alien-life-detected-on-venus-12071625 ... signs of alien life detected on Venus.

One to make you think. Gary sent in this link - www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732940-800-a-radical-new-theory-rewrite... ... a radical  new theory rewrits the story of how life on earth

Robert sent in two links. the first one is at https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/first-ever-preserved-grown-u... ... the first ever preserved adult cave bear has been found on an island

This story  has surface once again as a result of further studies - see https://phys.org/news/2020-09-widespread-literacy-biblical-period-kingdo... ... a new study concerns widespread literacy in the Biblical

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-reveal-richer-picture-dna-recovery.html ... a new technique has led to the extraction of DNA from soil for analysis, pulling the genomes of hundreds of animals and