Discovery

Speculations Abound That The Biblical Destruction Of Sodom May Be An Eye-Witness Account Of The 2nd Oldest Destruction Of A Human Settlement, After Abu Hureyra In Syria ~12,800 Yrs Ago, By Meteorite Impact. This Speculation Is Based On Evidence From Tall el-Hammam (Sodom) That’s Similar To Those Found At Tunguska And Chicxulub Crater Sites.

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Mars Perseverance Rover Team, Based On Preliminary Analysis Of The Rock Samples Recently Collected, May Have Identified Salt Minerals In The Rock Samples. And The Salt Minerals, Is Said, Could Have Trapped Ancient Martian Water Bubbles, Which Could Act As A Time Capsule, Offering Clues On The Ancient Habitability And Past Climate On Mars.

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Researchers Have Discovered One Of The Biggest Animals From The Cambrian Period. The Long Head Ocean-Dwelling (OD) Animal, Named Titanokorys Gainesi, Related To The Horseshoe Crab, Was Discovered In The Burgess Shale In Canada. Gainesi Is Said To Be 1/2 Meter In Length Compared To Many Of The Other Cambrian OD Pinky-Finger-Size Organisms.

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Researchers May Have Inadvertently Discovered The Most Northernmost Island Off Greenland Coast . The Scientists Made The Discovery During An Expedition To Oodaaq Island, Previously Thought To Be The Most Northernmost Island. But They Soon Discovered They Were 800m (2,625ft) Further North Of Oodaaq Island, Where The 60X30m Island Is Located.

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The Gravitational Force Around Black Holes (BH), Which Prevents Light From Escaping, Can Heat Material To Release Radio Waves And X-rays. Researchers, Studying The X-Rays, Observed Them, For The First Time, From Behind A BH, Due To Light Bending Effect Of BH, Supporting Albert Einstein’s Theory That Gravity Is Matter Warping Space-Time.

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Simple Life Forms, Like Bacteria And Blue-Green Algae, Did Exist During The Precambrian Era (~4,6 Byrs– 541 Myr Ago), Before More Complex Life Existed. But A New Questionable Study, From Canada, Is Indicating That More Complex And Probably The Oldest Animal Life Form, Some Sponge, May Have Existed ~890 Myr Ago During The Precambrian Era.

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The World’s Largest Star Sapphire Cluster, Named “Serendipity Sapphire,” Was Discovered In Gemstone-Rich Ratnapura Area Of Sri Lanka. Serendipity Sapphire Was Found In A Backyard, By Accident, During A Well Dig. The Pale Blue Coloured Gemstone, Weighing 510 kg Or 2.5 Million Carats, Is Estimated To Be Worth $100 Million In Intl. Market.

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InSight, Based On Mars Quake Data, Has Provided The Best Glimpse Of Mars Interior, Indicating The Core Comprises Liquid Nickel-Iron, And Is Larger Than Previously Thought, 2,230–2320 Miles Wide, And Probably Less Dense. While The Lithosphere, With Thicker Crust, Is Similar But ~ 56 Miles Thicker Than Earth’s, And Lacks Tectonic Plates.

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New Evidence Is Indicating That Neanderthals, Like Home Sapiens, Were Capable Of Artistic Or Symbolic Expression. Based On The Discovery, In The Famous Unicorn Cave In the Harz Mountains Of Central Germany, Of One Of The Oldest Art Works In The World—A Toe Bone Of A Prehistoric Deer Carved With Lines By Neanderthals 51,000 Years Ago.

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Research Is Indicating That 7% Of The Human DNA Is Unrelated To Our Ancient Ancestors And, Therefore, Unique To Modern Humans. This Find Indicates How Closely Related Modern Humans Are To, E.g., Neanderthals. The Study Was Conducted Using DNAs From 279 Humans Located Worldwide And From Fossilized Remains Of Neanderthals and Denisovans.

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Researchers, Based On DNA Analysis, May Have Found The World’s Known Earliest Person, A 5000-Year Old Hunter Gatherer, In His Twenties And Buried In Latvia, Who Was Infected With An Ancient Strain Of The Black Death Plague, Caused By The Bacterium, Yersinia Pestis. The Plague Wiped Out About Half Of Europe’s Population In The 1300s.

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Researchers May Have Discovered An Entirely New Human Species Called Homo Longi Or Dragon Man. The Discovery Was Made Based On The Analysis Of A Nearly Intact, At Least, 146,000 Years Old Skull Found In Harbin, China ~90 Years Ago. Researchers Are Indicating That Dragon Man Is More Closely Related To Humans Than Neanderthals Are.

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Researchers May Have Discovered, From Fossil Bones Found In A Sinkhole In Isreal, A New Human Ancestor Named Nesher Ramla Homo (NRH). NRH Is Said To Have Lived, Alongside Humans, Btw 140,000 And 120,000 Years Ago In Arabia And Israel. And That The Chinless And Possibly More Ancient NRH Interbreded With Humans And Neanderthals.

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The World’s Third Largest Diamond May Have Been Discovered In Botswana. The Diamond, Which Is 1,098 Carat, Measures 73mm Long, 52mm Wide, And 27mm Thick. The Diamond Is Smaller Than The 3,106 Carat Cullinan Stone Diamond Discovered In South Africa In 1905 And The 1,109 Carat Lesedi La Rona Diamond Found In Botswana in 2015.

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Researchers Discovered That Mouse Sperm, Freeze-Dried And Exposed To A High Level Of Cosmic Radiation For ~6 Years At The International Space Station, Can Still Successfully Birth Healthy Normal Pups That Are Free Of Genetic Defects. This Discovery Is Important As We Plan Future Long Term Space Exploration And Colonization Missions.

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An Egyptian Mummy Thought To Be That Of An Ancient Male Priest, Turned Out To Be The First Well Preserved Pregnant Egyptian Mummy Ever Discovered. The Mummy, Between Ages 20 To 30 And 26 To 30 Weeks Pregnant, Dates Back More Than 2000 Years, During Cleopatra’s Reign. And The Mummy May Provide New Possibilities For Pregnancy Studies In Ancient Times.

An Archaeologist Has Discover, In Italy, A 2000 Year Old Marble Head That Depicts The First Roman Emperor, Augustus Octavian, At A Young Age. The Head, 35cm High, Dated To Between 20 BC And 10 AD, Was Found In Isernia, Previously Called Aesernia, An Ancient Roman Colony. Augustus Became Rome’s First Emperor In 27 BC.

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Researchers May Have Discovered The Oldest Burial Site In Africa Dated To About 78,000 Years, In A Cave In Kenya. The Ancient Burial Site Is Said To Be That Of A 3-Year-Old Boy, Whom Scientists Call Mtoto, Meaning “The Kid” In Swahili. The Burial Is Said To Be An Important Piece For Understanding Human Evolutionary History In Africa.

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Researchers, Via Hubble Space Telescope, May Have Discovered The Youngest Exoplanet Planet Called PDS 70b. The Planet, 379 LY From Earth, Is As Big As Jupiter And Still Growing, Showing For The First Time Mass Being Pulled Onto A Planet From The Young Star It Orbits. This Discovery Could Shed Light On How Similar Gas Giant Planets Formed.

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Researchers May Have Discovered, In 2009, The Oldest Water Sample On Earth, At A Depth Of 3km, In A Base Metal Mine In Timmins, Ontario. The Water Sample, Dated To 1.6 Byrs, Could Offer Clue About Life Possibilities On Mars Or Other Planets. The Water, 10 Times Saltier Than Seawater, Is Said To Comprise Ingredients Necessary For Life.

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