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Go to https://phys.org/news/2019-06-rare-fossils-picture-biodiversity-middle.html ... a research paper published in The Science of Nature (2019) DOI:10.1007/s00114-019-1623-z ... 'Soft Bodied Fossils from the Upper Valongo Formation of

At https://notrickszone.com/2019/06/04/climate-scientists-astounded-no-arct... ... data issued by the Danish Meteorological Institute shows that Arctic sea ice stopped shrinking 13 years ago, defying predictions made by climate

Gary sent in the link to www.techtimes.com/articles/243819/20190527/submerged-forest-linked-to-my... ... a sunken forest composed of hundreds of petrified trees has emerged on a beach in Wales. It

At http://spaceweather.com (June 2nd 2019) we have several days of reports of noctilucent clouds circling around the Arctic and providing photographers with a lot of

Another story about the history and origin of apples - www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/mpif-eto052119.php ... for example, last year we had some research that showed cultivated apples were

This one is remarkable - a school of fish, admittedly very small fish, are preserved in a block of limestone. They are  said to go

This story is at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6963489/ ... where a 50 year old Londoner, one Alan Murphy, is the centrepiece. He is what is known in the

Sent in by William - go to https://eos.org/articles/hiroshima-bomb-created-asteroid-impact-like-glass ... it has been discovered that the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in WWII left behind glass

At https://phys.org/news/2019/05/mysterious-ancient-burial-mound-years.html ... the burial mound of Le Tumulus de Sables was discovered by chance in 2006 - in the playground of a kindergarten. The

Sent in by Gary - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7086499/ ... police investigating an illegal trade in historical artefacts have seized a hoard of Viking coins that might rewrite

This story is at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/the-sun-follows-the-rhythm-of... ... Tall Bloke was especially interested in this new research as he, and colleagues, have been saying something similar for

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/05/researcher-connects-... ... about 400 million years ago vertebrates are said to have begun to crawl out of the sea on to the land. Last

Were the megaliths at Baalbek erected under King Herod? Go to https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/05/baalbek-were-megalit... ... The temple of Jupiter at Baalbek dominates Baalbek, in the Lebanon -

At https://phys.org/news/2019-05-potential-taurid-meteor-swarm.html .... a study by the University of Western Ontario has investigated the potential risk from Taurid meteor swarms. Do they pose an existential

Yesterday we had a post on the idea a collision with a proto planet led to the formation of the Moon and provided the Earth

An 'old bat' has opened an interesting counter resolution - dinosaur bat. Robert provided the links to https://crev.info/2019/05/dinosaur-bat-wings/ and https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-science-dinosaur/-bat-winged-dinosaur-... ... a Jurassic dinosaur flew

William sent in this link - https://phys.org/news/2019-05-formation-moon-brought-earth.html ... the formation of the Moon brought water to Earth, the latest idea on why there is so

At https://phys.org/news/2019-05-extraterrestrial-mud-ball-years.html ... which is actually a meteor the size of a washing machine that broke apart over a small town in Costa Rica a

Also sent in by William - https://www.yahoo.com/news/earths-magnetic-north-pole-shifting-101845338... ... the magnetic north pole is shifting. Scientists asked themselves, could this mean the northern lights will move

Sent in by William - go to https://phys.org/news/2019-05-giant-impact-difference-moon-hemispheres.html ... a giant impact caused the differences between the two hemispheres of the Moon. The topographic evidence,