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A cave in Crimea has yielded the bones of an ostrich like bird - but three times the size of the modern version. At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/06/bird-three-times-lar...

At http://spaceweather.com (2nd July 2019) ... the face of the Sun has been blank for several days but on Sunday a small sun spot appeared,

At https://phys.org/news/2019-07-ancient-dna-biblical-philistines.html ... a dna study has been done on skeletons of Bronze and Iron age inhabitants of Ashkelon, one of the 5 Philistine cities.

One to wow the kiddiewinks - a dinosaur eating crocodile. Perhaps not as it isn't big enough or fearsome enough - go to https://phys.org/news/2019-06-ancient-croc-preyed-dinosaurs.html ...

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/06/2700-year-old-watcht... ... a 2700 year old watchtower was discovered at a military base in southern Israel according to the Israel Antiquities Authority. It dates

This story is at www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/ossuary-james-0012181 ... this sounds like a conspiracy theory but is never the less of interest as it is controversial. An ossuary

At www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/weapons-site-0012187 ... this link appears to have got its information from the Siberian Times and concerns an island in the Arctic Ocean. It is

You learn something new everyday. A sediment core from the Maldives is said to have preserved ocean water from the last Ice Age. How do

A small asteroid exploded in the atmosphere near Peurto Rico on June 22nd - see http://spaceweather.com (June 25th 2019). It occurred in broad daylight and

Continental shelf systems are areas formerly above sea level but now submerged. Such regions may have been periodically submerged with variations in sea levels over

At www.thegwpf.com/isle-of-man-seabird-populations-plummet-as-wind-farms-ov... ... the Isle of Man wildlife charity Manx Birdlife has reported on a 40 per cent decline in the populations of many sea

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/06/researchers-simulate... ... researchers simulate the extreme pressure and heat in the earth's Mantle - or what they assume is the extreme pressure exerted by

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-astronomers-uranus.html ... astronomers see a warm glow emanating from the rings of Uranus - via the ALMA telescope array. Its most prominent ring is

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-earthquake-swarms-reveal-piece-tectonic.html .... earthquake swarms are said to reveal mssing piece of tectonic plate volcano puzzle. Deep under the ocean, we are told, a sinking

Sent in by William. Hyenas in the Arctic - is this evidence of pole shift. However, the main stream mantra is that this is, instead,

The prevalence of noctilucent clouds in June has sparked a lot of response from blog authors, mostly as a result of visiting http://spaceweather.com (post on

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-crocs-climate-clock-ancient-reveal.html ... the ancient distribution of crocodiles could be used to reveal information about past climate. On the other hand, they may reveal more

The first artefacts to emerge from the depths of the North Sea in the current research into what the sediments on the sea bed might

The fascinating Shigir idol is back in the news - or at least at https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/the-awesome-shigir-... ... the tall idol goes back to the early Holocene

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2019/06/17/maunder-minimum-and-the-comet... ... the Maunder Minimum (a very cold episode supposedly associated with a lack of sun spots) is under scrutiny by Tim Cullen. A