Discover Magazine Reports 110-Year-Old News about Fossil Origins of Greek Myths, Jason Colavito, Jan. 30, 2024
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Doggone it: Bobi may not be the world’s oldest dog after all
Sarah Do Couto, Global News, January 16, 2024
Exposing The World's "Oldest" Dog
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Rare 3D fossils show that some early trees had forms unlike any you've ever seen
Cell Press, February 2, 2024, ScienceDaily
Weird ancient tree from before dinosaurs found in Canadian quarry
Before age of dinosaurs, plants experimented with bizarre forms,
discovery shows. Emily Chung · CBC News · Posted: Feb 02, 2024
The open access paper is;
Robert A. Gastaldo, Patricia G. Ge
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Oklahoma State University, student discovers new dinosaur species, publishes findings
Oklahoma State University, Sara Plummer , January 24, 2024
Paleontologists Discover New Species of Oviraptorosaur in South Dakota
Jan 25, 2024 by Sergio Prostak
The open access paper is:
Atkins-Weltman, K.L., Simon, D.J., Woodward, H.N., Funston,
G.F. and Snively, E., 2024. A new oviraptorosaur (
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Sensational’ Medieval Armor Discovered Near a Castle in Switzerland.
The rare 14th-century gauntlet is one of the best-preserved artifacts of
its kind ever found in the country, Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian
Magazine, January 26, 2024
Archaeologists discover intact medieval gauntlet at Kyburg Castle
The team also unearthed fragments of the glove's companion, worn
on the opposite
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4,000-year-old 'Altar of the Sun' tomb rediscovered in Ireland
The ancient burial tomb was believed to have been lost to
history in the 19th century, Alana Loftus, Irish Star, Jan. 24, 2024
Everyone Thought This 4,000-Year-Old Tomb Had Been Destroyed.
Then, an Archaeologist Found It Billy Mag Fhloinn located the Altóir
na Gréine, thought to have vanished in the 19th century,
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DEFCON 17: That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars
Jason Scott, Textfiles.com,
Free Range Archivist and Software Curator at Internet Archive
ASCII by Jason Scott Jason Scott's Weblog
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Scientists More Hopeful Than Ever That Perseverance Has Already Found
Life on Mars by Carly Cassella, Space, Science Alert, January 29, 2024
The open access paper is:
Paige, D.A., Hamran, S.E., Amundsen, H.E., Berger, T., Russell, P.,
Kakaria, R., Mellon, M.T., Eide, S., Carter, L.M., Casademont, T.M.
and Nunes, D.C., 2024. Ground penetrating radar observations of the
contact between
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‘Landmark paper’ shows why ice age Europeans wore jewelry
Bridget Alex, ScienceOrg, January 29, 2024
Ancient Jewelry Shows Ice Age Europe Had 9 Distinct Cultures
Sarah Wild, Scientific American, January 29, 2024
The paywalled paper is:
"Evidence from Personal Ornaments Suggest Nine Distinct
Cultural Groups between 34,000 and 24,000 Years Ago in
Europe,” by Jack Baker et al
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Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane possibly spotted in the
Pacific by exploration team, Juliana Kim, NPR, January 29, 2024
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The Key Role of Plate Tectonics for Accelerating the Evolution
of Complex Life: Quest for the Missing Extraterrestrial Civilizations
by Taras Gerya and Robert Stern, EGU 2023
#EGU23 PC3 Humans, hominoids and extraterrestials
Time interval in video: 2:00 - 7:20
Basic premises:
1. Civilizations can only be expected on planets with oceans,
continents, and plate tectonics
2. Su
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Maccone, C., 2012. The statistical Drake equation. In
Mathematical SETI: Statistics, Signal Processing, Space
Missions (pp. 3-72). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Osmanov, Z.N., 2023. Are we visible to advanced alien
civilizations?. Acta Astronautica.
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Mysterious 'magic' islands that come and go on Saturn's moon Titan
finally have an explanation by Briley Lewis, Science Live
The open access paper is:
Yu, X., Yu, Y., Garver, J., Zhang, X. and McGuiggan, P., 2024. The
fate of simple organics on Titan's surface: A theoretical perspective.
Geophysical Research Letters, 51(1), p.e2023GL106156.
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An iPhone Fell 16,000 Feet. Its Screen Didn’t Break. How?
Part of the answer is that phone screens have gotten more
durable. And part of it is basic physics.
By Anna Gibbs, Slate, January 11, 2024
His sock, shoe and iPhone were sucked out of Alaska
Flight 1282. The phone still works, Seattle Times,
Here’s how an iPhone survived a 16,000-foot fall from a plane
By Gerrit De Vynck
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Oldest Fossilized Skin Discovered, Clocks in at 300 Million Years Old
Isaac Schultz, GIZMODO, January 11, 2024
The (open access ?) paper is:
Paleozoic cave system preserves oldest-known evidence of amniote skin
by Ethan D. Mooney, Tea Maho, R. Paul Philp, Joseph J. Bevitt, and
Robert R. Reisz in Current Biology. DOI:
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Massive Submarine 'Superstructure' Has Been Lurking on
the Pacific Ocean Floor; Scientists Explore Its Formation
and Growth. Margaret Davis, LiveScience, Jan 11, 2024
Experts stunned by massive underwater structure
expanding since Jurassic era
By: Vikrant Singh, WION (India), January 11, 2024
The paywalled paper is:
Konrad, K., Balbas, A., Finlayson, V.A., Jackson,
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Major East Coast cities are sinking, Virginia Tech research shows
Linh Bui, WTOP News, January 10, 2024
The open access paper is:
Ohenhen, L.O., Shirzaei, M. and Barnard, P.L., 2024. Slowly but
surely: Exposure of communities and infrastructure to subsidence
on the US east coast. PNAS nexus, 3(1), p.pgad426.
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Another article about this topic.
Ancient Skeletons Give Clues to Modern Medical Mysteries
DNA fragments from thousands of years ago are providing
insights into multiple sclerosis, diabetes, schizophrenia and
other illnesses. Carl Zimmer, New York Times, Jan 10, 2024
The open access paper is:
Barrie, W., Yang, Y., Irving-Pease, E.K. et al. Elevated
genetic risk for multiple scler
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A 22-million-year-old petrified mangrove forest found in the Panama Canal
by Bob Yirka , PhysOrg
The paywalled paper is:
Martínez, C., Pérez-Lara, D.K., Avellaneda-Jiménez, D.S., Caballero-Rodríguez,
D., Rodríguez-Reyes, O., Crowley, J.L. and Jaramillo, C., 2023. An early
Miocene (Aquitanian) mangrove fossil forest buried by a volcanic lahar at
Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Palaeo
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Why Is China Drilling a 33,000-Feet Hole in Xinjiang?
by Yihui Xie, Time, June 1, 2023
China begins drilling one of world’s deepest holes
in hunt for discoveries deep inside the Earth
Rachel Chung, The Guardian, June 6, 2023
China is drilling some of the world’s deepest holes
in hunt for natural resources By Chris Lau, CNN
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On Gunung Padang, the New York Times Turns to ... Graham Hancock?
1/3/2024 by Jason Colativo
The New Times article being written about is:
‘World’s Oldest Pyramid’ in Indonesia? A Study Draws Skepticism
By Mike Ives and Rin HindryatiPhotographs by Ulet Ifansasti
Reporting from Seoul and from Cianjur, Indonesia
By Mike Ives and Rin HindryatiPhotographs by Ulet Ifansasti
Reporting fro
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Below is short but interesting compilation of
videos from the latest Japanese Earthquake.
The first segment should be in a horror film.
Japan now! Disastrous Earthquakes and Tsunamis are engulfing Japan now
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1.75-Billion-Year-Old Fossils Are Oldest Record of Oxygenic Photosynthesis
The preserved structures show a process that gave rise to life as we know it.
By Isaac Schultz, GIZMODO, January 3, 2023
Photosynthesis Evolved as Early as 1.75 Billion Years Ago, Microfossils Suggest
Jan 3, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro. SciNews
The paywalled paper is:
Demoulin, C.F., Lara, Y.J., Lambion, A. et
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'Giant' predator worms more than half a billion years old discovered in North Greenland
by University of Bristol, SciNews, January 2, 2023
The open access paper is:
Tae-Yoon Park et al, A giant stem-group chaetognath,
Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi6678.
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An interesting recently published open access summary of Holocene Impact Craters.
Losiak, A., 2023. Holocene impact craters on Earth. Miscellanea Geographica. Vol. 27 • No. 4
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A new open access paper on the effects of sea level rise on Australia
Norman, K., Bradshaw, C.J., Saltré, F., Clarkson, C., Cohen,
T.J., Hiscock, P., Jones, T. and Boesl, F., 2024. Sea level rise
drowned a vast habitable area of north-western Australia
driving long-term cultural change. Quaternary Science Reviews,
324, no.108418.
"Highlights
• MIS4 lowstand exposed a vast ar
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Mammoth Specimen Discovered
North Dakota Geological Survey
‘One of the most complete mammoth skeletons found
in ND ever’: Paleontologist explains discovery in Beulah
Bella Kraft, KFYR, North Dakota, December 19, 2023
Rare Mammoth specimen discovered by miners near Beulah, ND
Valley News Live, Fargo, North Dakota
Miners saw a flash of white in the rock. It was an Ice Age mammot
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Beloved Beach Arch in Newport Crumbles,
Leaving Oregon Coast With Bit of Geologic Mystery
Published 12/29/23 at 6:25 p.m.
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection
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How Henrico man discovered a creek bed that
could produce Virginia's first dinosaur bones
WTVR, Richmond, Virginia
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Podcast 118: The Mystique of Florida's Key Marco Cat
National Park Service
The Key Marco Cat and the Smithsonian’s Cushing Collections: A Digitization Collaboration
University of Southern Florida libraries
Statuette Of Mountain Lion Or Panther Man God "Key Marco Cat"
Smithsonian
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