"90,000-year-old" human footprints found on a Moroccan beach

 

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Joel Kontinen

Researchers in Morocco happened upon a trackway containing 85 well-preserved human footprints that are some of the oldest in the world.

Res30earchers discovered footprints made by humans thousands of years ago at a beach in Morocco. 

According to evolutionists, mankind is thousands of years sold. now, “Two trails of ancient human footprints pressed into a beach in Morocco form one of the largest and best-preserved trackways in the world.” they were 90,000-year´s old.

The researchers were able to determine the approximate age of the individuals, which included children, adolescents and adults.

The new study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

They were human footprints after all. They speculated this  “took place during the Late Pleistocene, also known as the last ice age, which according to evolutionists ended around 11,700 years ago, according to the study.”

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Jennifer Nalewicki 2024 90,000-year-old human footprints found on a Moroccan beach are some of the oldest and best preserved in the world | Live Science January 30.

 

Comet Arrokoth is a object made of of two parts with pancake-like shapes

 

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Joel Kontinen

The universe is made up of odd objects like the Pancake-like comet in the Kuiper Belt.

“Spinning clouds of pebbles may lead to the formation of oddly flattened objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids.”

“In 2019, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past an icy, comet-like object beyond Pluto called Arrokoth. It was notable because it seemed to be relatively flat, with each of its two joined lobes squished into a image courtesy of pancake shape. Several other objects in the solar system seem similarly squashed, including comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.”

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Jonathan O’Callaghan 2024. Pancake-like comets may be made by whirling clouds of pebbles | New Scientist 25 January. 

 

An asteroid flies past Earth

 

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Joel Kontinen

A newly discovered asteroid the size of an airplane will have 'very close encounter' with Earth on Saturday — and you can watch it happen.

A space rock that is called asteroid 2024 BJ will come within 354 000 kilometres or 220,000 miles from earth, on the 27th, i.e. Saturday.  

The asteroid is 37 meters 121-foot-wide. It flies around at a distance that is closer to us than the average distance to the moon.

 

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Sascha Pare 2024. Airplane-size asteroid will have 'very close encounter' with Earth on Saturday — and you can watch it happen | Live Science 26 January

Scientists discover near-Earth asteroid hours before it exploded over Berlin

 

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Joel Kontinen

For only the eighth time in history, scientists detected an asteroid before it made its fiery appearance over Earth. The tiny fireball exploded near Berlin early on Jan. 21.

It was the he morning of January 21, “a tiny asteroid came hurtling through the sky and smashed into Earth's atmosphere near Berlin.”

Such sightings typically occur a few times a year, but this one is special. It was detected only 3 hours before  its impact.

“The asteroid, dubbed 2024 BXI, was first discovered by asteroid hunter Krisztián Sárneczky, an astronomer at the Piszkéstető Mountain Station, part of Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. “

 

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Kiley Price 2024. Scientists discover near-Earth asteroid hours before it exploded over Berlin | Live Science 23 January. 

 

Mysterious patch on Mars appears to be enormous lump of ice

 

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Joel Kontinen

A large formation near the equator of Mars is now thought to be made of water ice, which could indicate that the Martian climate went through huge temperature swings in the past.

Some scientists suppose that “a colossal slab of ice may be hiding at Mars’s equator. The composition of this deposit, called the Medusae Fossae Formation, has long been debated, but new data indicates that it contains enough water to cover the entire surface of Mars in an ocean 1.5 to 2.7 metres deep.”

When the Mars Express orbiter first took radar measurements of Medusae Fossae, it  was made up of water ice.

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Leah Crane 2024 Mysterious patch on Mars appears to be enormous lump of ice | New Scientist 18 January  

Tigers' stripes

 

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Joel Kontinen

How did the tiger get its stripes? According to the British nobelist Rudyard Kipling who stated  in 1902 collection Just So Stories for Little Children. The tales were light-hearted explanations of how animals got a certain trait, as the names of the stories indicate, for instance How the Leopard got His Spots or How the Camel got his Hump..

According to Live Science, “Tiger stripes vary between individuals, much like fingerprints in humans. The markings play an important role in helping a tiger remain hidden while hunting prey. The stripes help break up the blend in with tall grass.”

It goes on the say, “in 1952, the British Mathematician Alan Turing theorized that a chemical reaction between two homogeneous substances were responsible for the famous tiger-stripe pattern, along with other patterns commonly found in nature. He dubbed these substances "morphogens." One acted as an "activator" and the other as an "inhibitor" — with the "activator" causing a stripe to form and the "inhibitor" creating a blank space.

And, “In 2012, a study in the journal Nature Genetics experimentally validated this theory by identifying the morphogens at play in the formation of ridge patterns in the mouths of mice.”

This is according to Darwinian storytelling, with no strings attached to the truth. 

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Elise Poore 2024. How 10 animals evolved their iconic features | Live Science  6 January.

 

A big cosmological mystery': Newfound cosmic corkscrew defies our understanding of the universe

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Joel Kontinen

Some astronomers have discovered a cosmic ring that's so enormous, it defies explanation with our best theories of the universe. The structure is so large, it defies one of the simplest rules of cosmology.

They say that N the Big Ring, the gigantic spiral of galaxies and galaxy clusters is 1.3 billion light-years wide and has a circumference of 4 billion light-years, making it one of the largest objects ever seen. 

“Because the Big Ring is so far from Earth — 9 billion light-years away — its light is too dim to be viewed with the naked eye. But if it were brighter, it would appear 15 times the size of the full moon in the night sky. “

They say that “The ring was found close to the constellation Boötes near the 3.3 billion-light-year-wide Giant Arc, which was discovered by the same team in 2021”

But the research is based on the big bang version of cosmology, that cannot be trusted.

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Ben Turner 2024. 'A big cosmological mystery': Newfound cosmic corkscrew defies our understanding of the universe (yahoo.com) 15 January

Turtle's shells

 

 Image courtesy of Mila Zinkova, Wikipedia.

Joel Kontinen

According to evolutionists, how did turtles get their shells? Now a study shows ‘that the shell “was formed through the fusion of osteoderms — bony deposits that make up the protective scales on crocodiles and armadillos.”

That does not take into account the intelligent design of turtles. They have always ben turtles and speculations do not solve the trick.

 Source:

Elise Poore 2024. How 10 animals evolved their iconic features | Live Science  6 January.

 

Newfound T. rex relative was an even bigger apex predator, remarkable skull discovery suggests

 

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Joel Kontinen

Newfound T. rex relative was an even bigger apex predator, remarkable skull discovery suggests

The newly identified tyrannosaur species is the closest known relative of T. rex and could have been even larger than the famous dinosaur king.

Some evolutionists have decided that the dinosaur that is a relative to T. rex could have been even larger than the famous dinosaur king,

A new study shows that Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis, was identified from a partial fossilized skull that paleontologists unearthed in 1983 could have been a bigger relative of T rex.  

It was dated between, between 73 million and 71 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period (145 million to 66 million years ago).

Some scientists are not happy with the results and dinosaurs are not millions of years old.

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Harry Baker. 2024 Newfound T. rex relative was an even bigger apex predator, remarkable skull discovery suggests | Live Science 12 January.

 

Elephant tusks

 

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Joel Kontinen

“Elephants have deeply rooted tusks protruding from their mouths that grow continuously. These tusks are actually enormous teeth that give the pachyderms an evolutionary advantage when digging, lifting objects, stripping bark of trees and protecting themselves.”

Some evolutionists say: “The earliest known tusks are found in Dicynodonts, a group of stocky, pig-like herbivores that lived 270 million years ago and had unique pointed beaks with protruding teeth on either side.”

They say: “Members of this clade with true tusks were also missing several teeth. Researchers theorized that it may have been more energetically favorable to develop tusks that continuously grow, rather than replacing teeth that may have fallen out. different species, different populations over time.”

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Elise Poore 2024. How 10 animals evolved their iconic features | Live Science  6 January.

Giraffes' long neck

 

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Joel Kontinen

Giraffes' necks can be up to 3 meter (10 feet) long, allowing the animals to reach leaves high up in trees. But they didn't always have this impressive feature.

This is what Live Science said: “Discokeryx xiezhi is a sheep-size, ancient relative of modern day giraffes that lived around 17 million years ago during the early Miocene epoch (23 million to 5.3 million years ago). It had a stumpy neck and a disk-shaped, thick skull.

”Scientists in 2022 proposed that the thick skulls of D. xiezhi evolved to withstand massive blows to the head during fights between males. Those same bouts fueled the growth of their necks to aid in fighting. This is called the "necks for sex" hypothesis and suggests competition led to longer necks developing. Males who won fights more often passed these genes onto their offspring than did the losers, eventually leading to the giraffes we see today.”

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Elise Poore 2024. How 10 animals evolved their iconic features | Live Science 6 January.

 

A renegade moon may have flipped Venus’s spin

 

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Joel Kontinen

Some astronomers think that Venus rotates in the opposite direction to the other planets in the solar system, and astronomers aren’t sure why – but it may have been caused by the drag of an ancient moon in a backwards orbit. It is called Theia.  

Now, this calls for an ancient moon that may or not   to do the trick. But we do not know if the planet or moon existed,

According to evolutionists, the early solar system was a chaotic place, with rocks hurtling around at extraordinary speeds. Valeri Makarov at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington DC and Alexey Goldin at Teza Techno. logies in Chicago performed a series of’examples

 

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Leah Crane. 2024. A renegade moon may have flipped Venus’s spin | New Scientist 4 January 

Tiny T. rex fossils may be distinct species – but not everyone agrees

 

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 Joel Kontinen

Palaeontologists can’t agree on whether fossils from several small dinosaurs represent juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or smaller adults of a separate species that lived alongside them

Some researchers think that Tyrannosaurus rex may not have been the only large carnivore reigning over North America during the Late Cretaceous ,  

A reinterpretation of several fossils of small dinosaurs sometimes categorised as young T. rex adds weight to the controversial idea that another smaller species, called Nanotyrannus lancensis, lived alongside the king of the dinosaurs.

“This is the most famous fossil animal in the world,” says Nicholas Longrich at the University of Bath in the UK. “There are a lot of people looking at it. And we can’t agree.”

“The debate has divided palaeontologists for decades. A 1960s paper argued that a skull unearthed two decades earlier in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation was from a T. rex that had died before reaching full maturity. But in the 1980s, others argued that differences between the skull and known T. rex specimens showed this fossil was in fact an adult of a distinct species, which they named Nanotyrannus lancensis.”

Some researchers have stated that the number of dinosaurs is smaller than what is sad in journals.  

More recent work based on additional fossils disputed this, arguing that the variation between the smaller fossils and full-size T. rex fossils were differences of age, not of species. The debate has implications for making sense of the ecology and diversity of dinosaurs in the period just before they went extinct.

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James Dinneen, 2024. Tiny T. rex fossils may be distinct species – but not everyone agrees | New Scientist. 3 January

 

 

In 2024 the Hera mission will revisit the asteroid punched by NASA

 

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Joel Kontinen

NASA’s DART mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the European Space Agency (ESA) is sending the Hera mission to investigate the collision’s aftermath.

The goal of DART was to check whether smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid would be a good way to defend Earth should an asteroid ever be heading in our direction. We know that the impact shifted Dimorphos’ trajectory around its parent asteroid, Didymos, shortening each orbit by about 33 minutes, but we don’t have details on how exactly that collision affected the asteroid or what happened afterwards.”

“We need another spacecraft to go back to the crime scene in order to tell whether the impact left a crater or entirely reshaped the asteroid, because with the current data both scenarios are possible,” says Hera mission head Patrick Michel at the Côte d’Azur Observatory in France. “Hera is a detective that is going to do a complete investigation of the impact.”

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Leah Crane 2024. In 2024 the Hera mission will revisit the asteroid punched by NASA | New Scientist 2 January.