Earth Mysteries

Dinosaur-killing asteroid may have made Earth’s largest ripple marks 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 3, 2021
Impact created a tsunami that etched massive structures under what’s now Louisiana, study says

By David Aragorn
UFO or Iron Man? Mystery jetpack user spotted flying near L.A. airport 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 2, 2021
Iron Man might be dead in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but he appears to be very much alive in the real-world vicinity of the Los Angeles International Airport, where pilots have reported seeing a sky-high individual with a jetpack.

By David Aragorn
Earth’s inner core is growing more on one side than the other – here’s why the planet isn’t tipping 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 30, 2021
More than 5,000 kilometres beneath us, Earth’s solid metal inner core wasn’t discovered until 1936. Almost a century later, we’re still struggling to answer basic questions about when and how it first formed.

By David Aragorn
‘Wiggly’ fossils found in Canada may be oldest known sign of animal life 0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 29, 2021
Scientists believe the unusual tubular structures may be the remnants of prehistoric sponges

By David Aragorn
Scientists Observed a Brainless Blob Thinking and Making Decisions 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 27, 2021
The slime mold Physarum uses mechanical signals to probe environments that it hasn’t directly explored yet.

By David Aragorn
‘Eye of Sauron’ volcano and other deep-sea structures discovered in underwater ‘Mordor’0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 27, 2021
It is one of several discoveries named after “The Lord of the Rings.”

By David Aragorn
When an ancient volcanic ‘supereruption’ caused sudden cooling, early humans got lucky 0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 23, 2021
Around 74,000 years ago, a “supereruption” on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, blasted out an estimated 5,000 cubic kilometres of magma. This was the Toba eruption, the largest volcanic eruption of the past 2 million years. To put 5,000 cubic kilometres of magma in perspective, this is more than a hundred times as large as the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, and included enough ash to blanket the entire United Kingdom about 1 millimetre deep.

By David Aragorn
Sea snot choking Turkey’s waters could be a warning to the world 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 22, 2021
Turkey’s Marmara Sea is dying. Globs of feathery goo are literally choking the life out of the water. Scientists say rising sea temperatures and untreated wastewater being dumped into the sea combined to create the perfect conditions for phytoplankton to thrive. Now it’s thriving at the expense of everything else.

By David Aragorn
Nessie Hunter: Why I’m still searching for the Loch Ness monster after 30 years 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 21, 2021
He may not have solved the mystery yet, but one thing proven beyond doubt is that Steve Feltham is a very patient man.

By David Aragorn
Creepy, finger-like fungus found clinging to life in Australian island 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 19, 2021
Researchers were pleasantly surprised to discover a large population of Tea-tree Fingers, a critically endangered species, on a remote Australian island.

By David Aragorn