During the years 800 to 1,200 AD, Greenland and Iceland were settled by the Vikings. This occurred about the same time as the Medieval Warm Period, which allowed this great migration to flourish. Greenland was settled when Erik the Red was banished from Iceland for manslaughter after a series of…
Between Bali and its neighboring Indonesian island, Lombok, lies a slim ten-mile sea channel—the start of the thousands-mile-long Wallace Line—a geological etching beneath the sea, and also a distinct biological division. On one side are bouncing kangaroos—on the other side are man-eating tigers. To the south is Australia—to the north…
Original Post July 30, 2014 Thomas Short, writing in the 18th century, chronicled the many calamities that decimated mankind over four thousand years. Plagues, earthquakes, drought, pestilence and incredible floods. As you read through Short’s curious book, you are struck by the appearance of bright comets in numbers unmatched…
Original Post February 5, 2014 The “Little Ice Age” impact on Europe was sudden and ferocious. Using its weapons of plague, famine and (perhaps controversially) earthquake, the so-called “Little Ice age” reduced the population of Europe by around 30 to 50 percent. The virulence and death toll of the 1348…
Original Post December 13, 2013 Between Bali and its neighbouring island, Lombok, is a slim ten mile sea channel. The channel is the start of the thousands-mile-long Wallace line. It is not only a dividing geological etching beneath the sea, it is also a biological division. On one side of…
Original Post October 7, 2013 Could fossilization be a rapid process? In the high desert atop the Colorado Plateau, titanic trees haphazardly litter the ground as if scattered by giants. Some of the chunks and splinters of the forest still harbor the beetles and larvae that left their tunnels in…
Original Post September 3, 2013 Antarctica is now the coldest place on Earth. The Katabatic winds howl around Antarctica’s gale thrashed coast. But once its green valley’s were filled with thriving Glossopteris Pine and Beach forests. How do we know this? “Scott of the Antarctic” was the first to…
Original Post March 21, 2013 Antarctica is now the coldest place on Earth. The Katabatic winds howl around Antarctica’s gale thrashed coast. But once its green valley’s were filled with thriving Glossopteris Pine and Beach forests. How do we know this? “Scott of the Antarctic” was the first to…
Original Post November 5, 2012 Did cosmic lightning wipeout the mammoths? Siberia, Alaska, Malta! Three mass slaughter sites! Sites littered with carcasses and skeletons captured in violent death throes. Some are petrified as rocks (Malta), some are preserved in ice (Siberia), some are surrounded and invaded by limestone(Hot Springs…
At our sixth conference EU2017: Future Science, Archaeologist Peter Mungo Jupp presented his case for instantaneous fossilization on Sunday, August 20, 2017. Examples of instant fossil evidence found on Earth: A forest of giant trees turned to solid rock; Soft-bodied crab petrified to rock and enclosed in the center…
