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William sent in this link - https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-history-stone-age/archaeologists-ha... ... archaeologists in Norway claim to have found well preserved gear from fishermen that lived 5000 years ago

Tall Bloke again. At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/06/27/motions-in-the-sun-reveal-inn... ... motions in the Sun are said to reveal the inner workings of the sunspot cycle. We are told ionised

Interesting  post at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/06/28/mysterious-lights-seen-geomag... ... mysterious lights may be a geomagnetic link to earthquakes. Paul Devereux wrote a couple of books a few decades ago

Never heard of Dr Plot? Neither had I until I stumbled on this at www.mikeoates.org/mas/leek/sunset.htm ... this is an amateur astronomy web site and therefore

Another mysterous extinction event where one set of animals is replaced by a different set of animals. Giant wolverines and otters the size of wolves

A new interactive map of the lost continent of Zealandia has been produced - see www.heritagedaily.com/2020/06/new-interactive-map-reveals-the-lost-conti... ... the map allows viewers to explore the geoscience

At https://spaceweather.com (June 26th 2020) as we are still in solar minima, in transit between two solar cycles, earth's magnetic field has been relatively quiet.

William also sent in a link to www.yahoo.com/news/prehistoric-monument-discovered-near-stonehenge-14142... ... near as in a longish walk up the hill to Durrington Walls neolithic site - which

William sent in this link and it reports on a new idea concerning the blip in cold weather around 44 to 43BC, at the time

This is a major accusation - NASA GISS alter temperature data. Well, they do that by claiming to bring old data in line with modern

At https://spaceweather.com (June 23rd 2020)  noctilucent clouds over London (see images below). The London Eye and the Thames with the noctilucents overhead. Images taken by

Quasar jets are particle accelerators thousands of light years long - see https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/06/quasar-jets-are-part... ... very high energy gamma ray emissions from quasars is not concentrated

At https://phys.org/news/2020-06-dinosaur-footprints-predators-big-rex.html ... dinosaur footprints in Australia of a predator almost the same size as a T. Rex. The footprints were discovered at Walloon Coal

Jovan Kesic on 30th March 2020, posted a reply to the idea that plague was rampant in the time of Akhnaton and Tutankhamon, suggesting there

At https://phys.org/news/2020-06-aerial-technology-largest-pictish-settleme... ... this comes courtesy of The Conservation, a media source that has good ones amidst lots of corny or very bad stories. The

Is this biology or is it geology. Bit of both. At https://phys.org/news/2020-06-fossil-discovery-million-year-old-canada-a... .... the discovery of a tiny insect fossil is said to uncover a

This one was sent in by William but I've found the following three links ... at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/17/study-burning-coal-caused-the-per... ... which comes with lots of comments, some

Robert also sent in a link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8432207/ ... the second biggest egg ever - found just off the West Antarctic peninsular. It was produced

Robert also sent in a link to https://eos.org/articles/search-for-mh370-revealed-ocean-crust-waves ... the search for the missing plane, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared in the Indian Ocean

Robert sent in the link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8428431/ ... giant sand cloud from the Sahara is blowing across the Atlantic. It may reach as far as Louisiana