In the News

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-fossil-shells-reveal-global-mercury.html ... concerns fossil oyster shells found in Alabama (along the Tombigbee River) among other diverse locations. They date back 66 to 72 million

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-brazil-pampas-triassic-flourished.html ... this concerns a top of the food chain dinosaur, the Gnathovorex. It was ten feet long and bigger than other dinosaurs at

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-archaeological-discoveries-reveal-birch-ba... .... which is derived from the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2019) see www.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102118 .... for open acess full article. Scientists have identified

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-story-rewriting-human-history-dna.html ... rewriting human history using DNA. Joshua Akey of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics is trying to better understand our links with

Robert sent in links to www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/10/18/Ancient-microbes-are-living-inside-E... ... and www.icr.org/article/11733/ .... and adds, in chaper 6 of his book, 'The Deep Hot Biosphere', Thomas Gold documents

At https://phys.org/news/2017-06-secret-square-beneath-world-famous-avebury... ... back in the summer of 2017 we had a report on the discovery of a small square anomaly on geophys which was

At https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0222560 ... or https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222560.g001 ... as well as https://phys.org/news/2019-12-ancient-mediterranean-seawall-defense-sea.... ... a submerged 7000 year old village and sea wall are said to represent the

I'm sure this story, or something like it has been up on Thunderbolts at some time or the other. At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/nasas-juno-navigators-enable-... ... NASAs Juno missio

William sent a link to this story but see https://phys.org/news/2019-12-mass-extinction-sea-biodiversity-million.html ... the End of Permian mass extinction event 250 million years ago has had reams

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2019/12/the-worzel-deep-sea-ash/ ... we are told that there is a nickel rich ash layer on the bottom of the world's oceans. They imply all the

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-interstellar-comet-2iborisov-sun.html ... telescopes around the world have been focussed on Comet Borisov, the apparent interstellar visitor. It is moving so fast it has not

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/12/breathing-new-life-i... ... we are told there were at least three oxygenisation events that gave rise to Earth's breathable atmosphere - and they happened spontaneously.

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/12/sailing-stone-track-... ... a sand  stone slab which contains dinosaur footprints seems to also have marks suggesting a 'sailing stone' or 'walking rock' according to

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-penguins-dinosaurs-died.html ... and see also https://doi.org/10.26879/1009 ... a study published in Paleontologia Elekronika (December 2019) concerns the paleontological evolution of early penguins after the

Diets are big business. The fad for vegan diets is just the latest. We have had the F Plan for example - lots of home

An article in the journal Nature - see https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1818-7 ... and https://nature.com/article/s4586-019-1811-1 ... see also https://phys.org/news/2019-12-sun-close-up-reveals-atmosphere-highly.html ... concerns the highly energetic particles that are hurled

We know lots about the Roman stone trade and how they transported stone from quarries to building sites over long distances. Lots of Roman worked

A study in Current Biology 'Repeated evolution of divergent modes of herbivory in non-avian dinosaurs' at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.050 ... herbivore dinosaurs evolved many times over the

At https://phys.org/news/2019-12-osiris-rex-mission-bennu-mysterious-partic... ... shortly after NASAs OSIRIS REx spacecraft arrived at Bennu it was discovered the asteroid was active - dislodging particles into space. After

At https://spaceweather.com/  (5th December 2019) we have details of a planetary wave supercharging noctilucent clouds in the southern hemisphere. NASAs AIM spacecraft detected the phenomena