There's a new T. rex from the dinosaur age — and it ruled the seas with a skull-crushing bite

 

An artist's reconstruction of Tylosaurus rex swimming in the Cretaceous seas of North America. Image courtesy of Alderon Games/Path of Titans.

Joel Kontinen

There's a new T. rex in town.  However,  this one didn't hunt on land. It ruled the ancient seas.

Scientists have described a new species of mosasaur, a member of a marine reptile group that lived at the same time as dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period (145 million to 66 million years ago). The newly named species fits into an already known genus: Tylosaurus. But its new species name, Tylosaurus rex — T. rex, for short — sets it apart from the other mosasaur species in the group.

The species name means "king of the tylosaurs," according to a new study published  May 21 in the journal Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. According to evolution, the fossils are about 80 million years old and were discovered mostly in northern Texas decades ago.

The mosasaur T. rex measured up to 13 meters) long, or about the length of a tour bus. It had finely serrated teeth, unusually powerful jaws, and evidence on its fossils of violent combat with its own species.

While examining a fossil in the American Museum of Natural History's collection, Zietlow noticed that a specimen labeled as Tylosaurus proriger — a well-known mosasaur species first described in 1869 — didn't quite match others of its kind. The unusual fossil was discovered in 1979 near an artificial reservoir outside Dallas.

After comparing the specimen with the original name-bearing fossil of T. proriger held at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, Zietlow and her colleagues found that it belonged to a newfound species

Compared with T. proriger, the newly described T. rex was  4 metres longer, had finely serrated teeth (which T. proriger lacked) and lived several million years later. Most T. proriger fossils were discovered in what is now Kansas and are roughly 84 million years old, while the fossils now identified as T. rex are mostly from Texas and date to about 80 million years ago. At that time, the Western Interior Seaway stretched from the Gulf of Mexico up to the Arctic and was home to many sea creatures, including mosasaurs.

But the dates in the millions of years are inflated.  

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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry 2026 There's a new T. rex from the dinosaur age — and it ruled the seas with a skull-crushing bite | Live Science May 21

 

 

 

 

The ‘doomsday’ glacier’s giant ice shelf is about to break away

 

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Joel Kontinen

The floating ice shelf of world’s widest glacier – Thwaites glacier in Antarctica – is detaching, with worrying implications for global sea-level rise.

Can global warming spell doom for in Antarctica? Some say that the climate was established by God at the end pf the global flood in Noah's time but others are  more sceptical. They say that men can destroy the planet.

Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier is set to break away.

“Its final demise could happen suddenly, and to avoid being caught on the hop, we have already prepared an ‘obituary’ press release,” says Rob Larter at the British Antarctic Survey.

Dubbed the “doomsday glacier”, Thwaites is about the size of Britain, but it is shrinking rapidly and is already responsible for 4 per cent of all global sea-level rise. Worse still, its collapse is expected to set off a domino effect in the entire West Antarctic ice sheet, ultimately resulting in a calamitous sea-level rise of 3.3 metres and changing the coastline of the entire planet.

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Alison George 2026 The ‘doomsday’ glacier’s giant ice shelf is about to break away | New Scientist 18 May 

Natural sunscreen found in fish eggs can be made by E. coli factories

 

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Joel Kontinen

Intelligent design has provided  zebrafish eggs to produce a chemical that keeps the suns rays  from harming people. The chemical is known as gadusol.

A team led by Ping Zhang at Jiangnan University, China, inserted genes from zebrafish into the bacterium Escherichia coli to give it the enzymes needed to synthesise gadusol. Then, by using small RNA molecules to dial up gadusol production in the bacteria and tweaking their growing conditions, they increased the yield by nearly 93 times, from 45.2 milligrams per litre of liquid growth medium to 4.2 grams per litre.

In experiments, gadusol displayed antioxidant properties comparable to vitamin C, suggesting it may help neutralise free radicals that cause damage in cells.

Gadusol is transparent, unlike melanin, and yet is perfectly tuned to block out harmful UV rays from the sun, which makes it ideal for organisms hiding from prey. “I think we haven’t necessarily given it the praise that it deserves,” says James Gagnon at the University of Utah, who was part of a team that discovered gadusol’s role as a sunscreen in fish embryos. “This is a great molecule.”

Gadusol is found in the eggs of zebrafish, salmon and sturgeon, as well as coral, where it protects organisms from ultraviolet damage. But it’s only found in small quantities so extracting it from organisms for use as a sunscreen is impractical

Gagnon says further testing is needed, but the compound is likely to be safe for humans and the environment because so many animals already use it. Thanks to its transparency, it might also avoid the milky residue that some current sunscreens leave on the skin.

“Everyone wants to hint that this is going to be a great sunscreen for humans,” says Gagnon.

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 Matthew Sparkes 2026 Natural sunscreen found in fish eggs can be made by E. coli factories | New Scientist 13 May 

 

Asteroid to miss Earth by a quarter of the length from us to the moon

 

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Joel Kontinen

An asteroid that missed the Earth by some 90, 000 kilometers was very real, It was not the object can was mentioned in the book of Revelation that was called bitterness as it caused the seas to become bitter.   

Asteroid 2026JH2 will zoom past Earth at a distance of only 90,000 kilometers  next week. It has enough mass to wipe out a city, but simulations suggest there is no chance of an impact for at least the next century.

An asteroid with the potential to ruin a city will pass Earth next week. 2026JH2, as it has been labelled by the astronomy community, is predicted to zoom by our planet at an estimated distance of 90,917 kilometers – only a quarter of the distance between us and the moon.

“In astronomical terms, it’s as close as you can get without hitting,” says Mark Norris at the University of Lancashire, UK.

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Matthew Sparkes 2026 Asteroid set to fly very close to Earth | New Scientist 13 May 

Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus

 

Tooth found in Sunjiadong, China, thought to belong to Homo erectus. Image courtesy of Qiaomei Fu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Joel Kontinen

Six teeth roughly 400,000 years old have yielded some of the first ancient proteins thought to belong to Homo erectus, providing molecular clues to their relationships with other hominins.

Some evolutionists said that Denisovans and Homo erectus were relatives, as their teeth are similar. Homo erectus is thought to be fully human, just as the Denisovans, And the dates of the fossilized teeth are not correct. The date is described in the book of Genesis.     

For the first time, researchers have obtained substantial amounts of preserved protein from fossils believed to belong Homo erectus.

While proteins have been recovered from H. erectus fossils before, this is the first time they have revealed meaningful information about the species. The proteins suggest that H. erectus interbred with another group of hominins in Asia, the Denisovans.

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Michael Marshall 2026 Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus | New Scientist 13 May 

A combination of amazement and horror: Hitchhiker fish hide in manta ray buttholes

 

Image courtesy of Bryant Turffs, Marine Megafauna Foundation

Joel Kontinen

Hitchhiking fish that are famous for suctioning themselves to other marine animals have a very unexpected hiding place: the rear ends of manta rays, a new study finds.

These fish, known as remoras (family Echeneidae), frequently get free rides when they use their suction discs ‪— modified backs, or dorsal fins ‪— to latch onto marine animals like sharks, whales and sea turtles. It has generally been thought that remoras provide a cleaning service to the animal they are traveling with, picking parasites off their skin.

It is an  intelligent design element that keeps these marine animals clean.

But this new discovery shows that this relationship might not always be beneficial to the manta rays.

The suckerfish's behaviour is "pretty weird," study first author Emily Yeager, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Marine Biology and Ecology at the University of Miami, said.

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 Bethany Augliere 2026 'A combination of amazement and horror': Hitchhiker fish hide in manta ray buttholes | Live Science 12 May

 

Are UFOs the people mentioned in Genesis?

 

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Joel Kontinen

What are the UFOs? Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has said  that newly declassified government UFO files may point to something far older than outer space, biblical demons known as the Nephilim. The Republican lawmaker made the remarks on 8 May 2026, hours after the Trump administration released its first tranche of declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files.

Speaking in a video published by Right Wing Watch, Boebert aid that what the files document are not extraterrestrial beings, but fallen angels described in the Old Testament. Her comments arrived as debate over the newly released materials had barely begun.

The more I see the Old Testament and what was told to us there, of fallen angels, and Nephilim. I mean, this is in the Bible, Boebert said. "There's nothing that says that fallen angels, that Nephilim, just disappeared. And so I believed that this could be an aspect of it."

The Nephilim appear in Genesis 6 of the Old Testament, described as powerful figures born of unions between divine beings and human women. Their corruption is traditionally interpreted as one of the catalysts for the Great Flood of Noah's time.  

Yes, it appears that UFOs are really Nephilim, which would demonstrate their power to cut coners and fly at amazing speeds.

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Lauren Boebert 2026 Rep. Lauren Boebert Claims Secret Government UFO Files Reveal Demonic Entities Known as 'Nephilim From the Old Testament' | IBTimes UK 9 May

What is happening in Israel

 

What is happening in Israel? In the USA president Trump has said that the USA will be celebrate Sabbath once and Uganda is sending troops to combat the troops of Iran.  

300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector

 

Image courtesy of ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Schirmer (MPIA, Heidelberg)

Joel Kontinen

 Is dark matter real? Some scientist are saying that it is not and others are no so sure of it.  Many scientists believe that the universe was created by Big Bang.

In 1773, British scientist Henry Cavendish set up a simple experiment aimed at uncovering the nature of electromagnetism. It involved measuring the electric potential at the surface of two nested metal shells to discern how charged particles affect each other within them.

Now, Peter Graham at Stanford University in California and his colleagues say that reviving Cavendish’s experiment could help reveal an even more mysterious feature of our cosmos – the particles that make up dark matter. Dark matter makes up more of our universe than ordinary matter.

A centuries-old experiment could help accelerate the search for new and exotic particles, including those that make up dark matter.

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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan 2026 300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector | New Scientist 4 May 

 

Scientists identify 10,000 'impossible' exoplanet candidates, potentially tripling the number of known alien worlds

 

Image courtesy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Joel Kontinen

How many exoplanets are there? A new survey put the number at over 10,000.  But how many of them harbour life is difficult question, as only the creator can create life-giving minerals and other elements to a planet.

Since the first alien planet was spotted in 1995, the number of exoplanet discoveries has slowly risen in line with new technologies, such as the James Webb Space Telescope, which are better equipped to spot these weird alien worlds. In September 2025, astronomers revealed that the number of confirmed exoplanets had surpassed 6,000, and nearly 300 have been added to the list since then, according to NASA.

But in a new study uploaded April 20 to the preprint server arXiv, researchers report that they've uncovered an astonishing 11,554 exoplanet candidates at once. If all of them can be confirmed, it would bring the total number of exoplanets to nearly 18,000, which is almost triple the current total.

Using a machine learning algorithm, the team analyzed the light curves of precisely 83,717,159 stars captured by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a car-sized space telescope that has been circling Earth since 2018. By looking for subtle dips in the stars' brightness, astronomers can tell when a planet has likely passed in front of, or transited, its home star.

This revealed more than 11,000 exoplanet candidates, of which 10,052 had never been seen before. Around 87% of the candidates were spotted transiting twice or more, allowing the researchers to calculate the planets' orbital periods, which range from 0.5 to 27 days, according to StellarCatalog.com.

Using one of the 21-foot (6.5 meters) Magellan telescopes in Chile's Atacama Desert, the team identified a "hot Jupiter" exoplanet, dubbed TIC 183374187 b, that orbits a star around 3,950 light-years from Earth — right where the algorithm predicted.

TESS was specifically designed to detect transiting objects, and it has already discovered 882 confirmed exoplanets — roughly 14% of the current total — so it may seem strange that no one has seen most of the new candidates until now.

Most researchers prioritize analyzing the light curves of the brightest stars in the TESS dataset, because transit events for these stars are much more noticeable and easier to confirm. But there are many more faint stars that end up being captured in the telescope's wide-field photos.

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 Harry Baker 2026 Scientists identify 10,000 'impossible' exoplanet candidates, potentially tripling the number of known alien worlds | Live Science 2 May

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere

 

Image courtesy of NAOJ/Ko Arimatsu.

Joel Kontinen

A tiny The object, located in the Kuiper Belt of distant frozen bodies at the edge of the solar system, is formally named (612533) 2002 XV93, after the date of its discovery nearly a quarter of a century ago. It has a diameter of less than 500 kilometres.

he object also belongs to a class of objects known as plutinos because they are in the same stable orbit as Pluto, completing three revolutions around the sun for every two made by Neptune.

It seems that this object, though it is small,  has an atmosphere,   

On 10 January 2024, 2002 XV93 passed in front of a distant star, causing what is called an occultation. Ko Arimatsu at Kyoto University and his colleagues observed this event from three locations in Japan.

The team saw the star gradually fade and recover over about 1.5 seconds near the edge of the shadow.

“These gradual changes are best explained if the star’s light was bent by a very thin atmosphere around 2002 XV93,” says Arimatsu.

The team estimates a surface pressure of about 100 to 200 nanobars, roughly 5 million to 10 million times thinner than Earth’s atmosphere and about 50 to 100 times thinner than Pluto’s tenuous atmosphere.

“You could not breathe it, feel wind from it, or see anything like Earth’s sky,” says Arimatsu. “But it is not negligible scientifically because even such a thin atmosphere can measurably bend starlight, and it tells us that volatile gases are present or being supplied around a very small icy body.”

The team couldn’t determine the composition of the atmosphere directly from the data. Arimatsu suggests methane, nitrogen and carbon monoxide are the most plausible candidates because they are among the few substances volatile enough to become gases at the very low temperatures of the outer solar system.

“This discovery challenges our conventional view of small worlds in the outer solar system,” says Arimatsu. “Until now, clearly detectable atmospheres in the solar system were essentially associated with planets, dwarf planets and some large satellites. 2002 XV93 appears to be one of the smallest solar system bodies yet with a clearly detected atmosphere.”

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James Woodford 2026 Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere | New Scientist 4 May

 

Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

 

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Joel Kontinen

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in health, diet and environment.

In the past 100 years, the heads of Japanese people have got rounder, with narrower cheekbones, wider upper jaws and slimmer, more prominent noses.

While changes outside Japan may vary, the overall trend is probably common across the globe, says Shiori Usui at the National Research Institute of Police Science in Chiba, Japan.

Humans are the only primate that has a chin. This is not according to Darwinian evolution but according to creation.  

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Christa Lesté-Lasserre 2026 Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years | New Scientist 30 April 

 

100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned

 

Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, IPAC/Caltech, STScI, Arizona State University.

Joel Kontinen

Some scientists may be in for a surprise.   A recent survey has said that the universe in surprising lumpy.  

Assumptions that physicists have made about the universe for over a century may be about to be overturned. Evidence is emerging that it is far lumpier than we had thought – a finding that could solve some of today’s most puzzling cosmological mysteries.

When modelling the universe, cosmologists can’t describe every single galaxy, so they make simplifications. Typically, they assume that the universe on the largest scales is homogeneous and isotropic, meaning that it is roughly the same no matter where you look.

Our universe may look surprising lumpy, but that is the way God made it,   For example, our solar system is very different from other solar systems.

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Matt von Hippel 2026 100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned | New Scientist 27 April 

 

Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals

 

Image courtesy of Erwin Niemand/Shutterstock

Joel Kontinen

Some animals use metals to strengthen their body parts- just like the teeth in Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis), for instance, and the scorpions also use metals such as iron, zinc and manganese, and also copper, nickel, silicon, chlorine, titanium and bromine.

Sam Campbell at the University of Queensland, Australia, and his colleagues examined the claws and stingers of 18 species of scorpion from around the world to determine the extent and composition of their metal reinforcements.

The metals are largely found within the tips of the stingers and along the cutting edge of the claws, as well as in their mouth and teeth and in their tarsal claws, making their weapons “like a steel-toe-capped boot”, Campbell says. The rest of the animal’s exoskeleton is still hard, but much softer in comparison.

Scorpions all fluoresce light green or blue under ultraviolet light. But metal-enriched parts of the body don’t glow when exposed to UV, the team found.

It isn’t yet known how the scorpions obtain the metals that they incorporate into their exoskeletons, though their prey is the most likely source.

The team also found that different scorpion species had more metal in different parts of their bodies, and this is related to their behaviour. “What we identified was that when zinc was high in the claws, it would be low in the stinger, and vice versa,” says Campbell. “Because scorpions use their weapons so differently, it is possible that metal enrichment has adapted to provide beneficial biomechanical properties in the weapons where it is most needed by the scorpion.”

Metal enrichment in animal tissues appears to be more common than once thought, says Aaron LeBlanc at King’s College London. “A growing number of studies are pointing this out in vertebrate teeth as well,” he says. “The next logical step after discovering these features is to try to understand how they have evolved across major lineages, and this study is a pioneering one for that reason.”

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 James Woodford 2026 Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with metals | New Scientist29 April 

10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data

 

An artist’s impression of a star with two planets transiting across it. Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI).

Joel Kontinen

How many planets are there? A recent survey says that there might be some 10, 000. This is according to a NASA research. But we do now know how many can harbour life, as only God can give  it.

Astronomers have identified more than 10,000 candidate planets in data from a NASA telescope, the most ever found in a single life.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was launched in 2018. It is tasked with looking at stars across the sky for planets in orbit, known as exoplanets. It identifies these exoplanets by looking for brief dips in the brightness of the light reaching Earth from each star – a sign that an exoplanet orbiting the star has passed in front of it.

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 Jonathan O’Callaghan 2026 10,000 new planets found hidden in NASA telescope data | New Scientist 27 April 

Strange mammal ancestor laid huge, leathery eggs — and it was key to surviving the world's worst mass extinction

 

Image courtesy of Professor Julien Benoit.

Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists think that mass extinctions killed most of the animals before the giant universal deluge that took place at the time of Noah.

Using synchrotron X-ray CT scans of a fossilized, intact embryo, researchers found evidence that the plant-eating mammal Lystrosaurus laid eggs, which answers a key question about mammalian evolution. Scientists have cracked a major mystery about mammal evolution after discovering a 250 million-year-old fossilized egg from before the time of the dinosaurs. Researchers say the specimen, which holds a curled-up embryo of the plant-eating animal Lystrosaurus, is the first known egg ever found from a mammal ancestor, proving that mammals' ancestors laid eggs.

The egg could help paleontologists better understand how these animals survived the Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, which occurred around 252 million years ago. During this event, Earth faced brutal heat, drought, volcanic eruptions and ocean acidification, and 90% of Earth's species died.

"It reveals how reproductive strategies can shape survival in extreme environments: by producing large, yolk-rich eggs and precocial young, Lystrosaurus was able to thrive in the harsh, unpredictable conditions following the end-Permian mass extinction," Julien Benoit, a paleontologist and associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa's Evolutionary Studies Institute, said in a statement.

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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry 2026 Strange mammal ancestor laid huge, leathery eggs —‬ and it was key to surviving the world's worst mass extinction | Live Science April 15

 

 

 

Archaeopteryx, one of the world's first proto birds, has a set of weird, never-before-seen features

 

Illustration by Ville Sinkkonen

Joel Kontinen

Some evolutionist think that Archaeopteryx is a a proto bird that is one the way to being a real bird. But that’s not the way these animals become birds. This is what told Live Science says  about this:

Iconic transition species between dinosaurs and birds may have had weird 'teeth' on roof of its mouth and a highly mobile tongue, study reveals searchers have uncovered an intriguing set of never-before-seen features in the skull of Archaeopteryx, an iconic dinosaur that is considered a key transitional fossil in the evolution of birds, a new study reports.

The features — which are absent in nonflying dinosaurs but are widespread in living birds — may have enabled Archaeopteryx to acquire, manipulate and process food more efficiently, the research team proposed in the study, which was published Feb. 2 in the journal The Innovation.

The newly discovered features include a tiny bone that indicates Archaeopteryx had a highly mobile tongue. The researchers also identified "weird" soft tissue traces interpret but this is qhat science daily ed as oral papillae — small, tooth-like projections on the roof of the mouth, Jingmai O'Connor, an associate curator of fossil reptiles at the Field Museum in Chicago and lead author of the study, in an email. Finally, the team found "unusual" openings near the tip of Archaeopteryx's jaw that suggest a nerve-rich structure and may represent an early analogue of what is known as a bill-tip organ in modern birds.

he identification of these features in Archaeopteryx marks their earliest known appearance in the fossil record, according to the study, suggesting these characteristics evolved during or close to the emergence of avian dinosaurs — known as birds — which is thought to have occurred during the Late Jurassic period (roughly 161.5 million to 143 million years ago). he identification of these features in Archaeopteryx marks their earliest known appearance in the fossil record, according to the study, suggesting these characteristics evolved during or close to the emergence of avian dinosaurs — known as birds — which is thought to have occurred during the Late Jurassic period (roughly 161.5 million to 143 million years ago).

Modern birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived the mass extinction event 66 million years ago. Archaeopteryx, which lived around 150 million years ago in what is now Germany, is among the oldest — if not the earliest — known dinosaur that can also be considered a bird under a broad definition, although it was probably not the first bird to evolve, O'Connor said.

Furthermore, Archaeopteryx is unlikely to have been a direct ancestor of modern birds, research suggests. According to O'Connor, Archaeopteryx represents the earliest known dinosaur with good evidence for active, feather-driven flight, although this was likely limited to brief, powered bursts

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 Aristos Georgiou 2026 Archaeopteryx, one of the world's first proto birds, has a set of weird, never-before-seen features, new study reveals | Live Science February 13

 

 

 

New study confirms lobsters feel pain, driving scientists to call for a ban on boiling them alive

 

Image courtesy of Peter Halasz., CC BY-SA 2.5.

Joel Kontinen

A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that lobsters feel pain, with the crustaceans seemingly responding to electrical shocks with emotional distress.

Some evolutionists say that lobsters feel no pain, but a recent study says that they cay can feel  pain.  They have forgotten that lob sears, liked other animals. can feel pain.

The fall of man described in Genesis also brought suffering and death to animals.

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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry  2026 New study confirms lobsters feel pain, driving scientists to call for a ban on boiling them alive | Live Science April 15

BBC Tries Pushing Deadly Accusation Against Israel, Then Gets EXPOSED!

 

The BBC lies about settler violence in Israel, but the truth is not trustworthy.

Where was humanity during the Holocaust?

 

It has been Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.  When asked,” The late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks asked, “Where was humanity during the Holocaust?”

Hidden fossils reveal secrets of oceans before major mass extinction

Image Courtesy of Jonathan Aitchisonaccr,

Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, one mass extinction took place many millions of years ago. The evidence for this was tiny fossils found in Australia.  However, the timing of the extinction was very wrong,

A tiny pellet of ancient rock, a mere half the size of a grain of rice, has yielded 20 microscopic fossils representing eight different species, including one that is entirely new to science. The discovery will enhance our understanding of the second-largest known mass extinction. It also shows how new analytical techniques are unlocking parts of the fossil record that according to evolution, have previously gone overlooked.

Jonathan Aitchison at the University of Queensland, Australia, and his colleagues extracted the pellet from a rock that was collected in late 2018 from the Sichuan basin in China, about 300 kilometres south of Xian. The rock is 445 million years old, which means it formed just before the Late Ordovician mass extinction – the second most severe to have occurred over the past 500 million years according to evolution.

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James Woodford 2026 Hidden fossils reveal secrets of oceans before major mass extinction | New Scientist 10 April 

Christianity is growing in Iran

 

Crown prince Reza Pahlavi says that Christianity is growing in Iran. Multiple ministry organizations tracking Iran report it has one of the fastest-growing Christian populations on earth, with millions of secret believers meeting in homes across the country. The regime knows it, and the arrests and executions of Iranian Christians have accelerated in recent years precisely because the authorities are terrified of what they cannot stop.

Migraines could be treated by ramping up the brain's cleaning system

 

Image courtesy of Victor de Schwanberg/Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

Amplifying the brain's waste disposal system seems to clear a substance that drives migraines, relieving some of the pain associated with the condition.

How does the brain deal with migraines. Now, it seems that an intelligent design ingredient can lessen them. It deals with the brains cleaning system.

Novel approaches are edging us closer to relieving the agonising pain of migraines for all affected

One-third of people with migraines don’t respond to current treatments, but harnessing the brain’s cleaning system could open up a new treatment option. A drug that ordinarily treats high blood pressure helped this system more effectively remove a chemical substance from the brains of mice that is a potent driver of migraines. As a result, the mice showed fewer signs of facial pain, which affects about 60 per cent of people with migraines during an episode.

Around 1 in 7 people worldwide have migraines. Pain, pressure or throbbing in the cheeks, jaw, forehead or behind the eyes are common symptoms, and can be exacerbated by even light touch. “Simply brushing their hair can be painful for [people with migraines],” says Adriana Della Pietra at the University of Iowa, who presented the research at the Oxford Glymphatic and Brain Clearance Symposium in the UK on 1 April.

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Carissa Wong 2026 Migraines could be treated by ramping up the brain's cleaning system | New Scientist 7 April 

We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time

 

Dying stars can emit a powerful jet of radiation, as seen in an artist’s impression. Image courtesy of Stocktrek Images, Inc./Alamy.

Joel Kontinen

What do dying stars do when they die? Some astronomers have seen a certain type of explosion when they see a dying star bursts into flames and then dies.  

When a dying star gets old, it probably then it explodes and dies.  

Astronomers think they have seen a type of explosion produced by a dying star called a dirty fireball for the first time, and it could help us understand how massive stars die.

When a massive star runs out of fuel, it can collapse and explode in several ways. If a black hole is produced in the collapse, an extremely powerful jet of radiation can burst through the star, producing a flash of high-energy light called a gamma ray burst.

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 Alex Wilkins 2026 We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time | New Scientist 3 April 

Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals

 

Artist’s reconstruction of the ancient ocean ecosystem preserved in the Jiangchuan biota. Image courtesy of Xiaodong Wang.

Joel Kontinen

Some evolutionists believe that complex life on earth began way before the Cambrian explosion, which for Darwinists has been a mystery.  Can complex life begin without intelligence?

And the time frame for these events is very much wrong.

A huge and beautifully preserved suite of fossils discovered in China has cast doubt on the idea that complex life flourished dramatically during a rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian explosion.

This event, spanning roughly 541 million to 513 million years ago, is when most of the animal groups alive today are thought to have first appeared, along with a bizarre array of evolutionary experiments that later went extinct.

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James Woodford 2026 Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolution of complex animals | New Scientist 2 April 

Iran's Plan To Nuke America

 

Iran's plan to nuke America.

America’s Founders and Intelligent Design

 

The Declaration of Independence proclaims that “all men are created equal” and “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” These are not idle words. They were inspired by the firm conviction of America’s Founders that nature was intelligently designed.

Fossils discovered in Egypt may be the closest ancestor of all apes

 

The reconstruction of Masripithecus moghraensis, an ape that lived around 17 million years ago. Image courtesy of Mauricio Antón/Professor Hesham Sallam

Joel Kontinen

Pieces of jawbone and teeth found in Egypt have been identified as a new early ape species named Masripithecus moghraensis, which lived about 17 million years ago

When according to evolution, was the earliest fossil of all apes discovered.   

A newly discovered ape species that lived around 17 million years ago suggests that the first apes may have evolved in North Africa, not East Africa as previously thought.

In 2023 and 2024, at the Wadi Moghra archaeological site in northern Egypt, Shorouq Al-Ashqar at Mansoura University, Egypt, and her colleagues found teeth and jawbones from two ancient apes in deposits dated to approximately 17 million to 18 million years old.

According to Genesis,  God created each species so that it would fill the circle assigned to it, so no thousands or millions of years are needed.  

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James Woodford 2026 Fossils discovered in Egypt may be the closest ancestor of all apes | New Scientist 26 March 

 

Earth may have formed from two separate rings around the sun

 

Models suggest something is wrong with our picture of the early solar system. Image courtesy of Panther Media Global / Alamy.

Joel Kontinen

According to evolutionary story, our solar system’s rocky planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – may have formed from two rings around the young sun, rather than a single disc.

The inner solar system may have formed differently from how scientist thought must have. For decades, researchers have thought that according to evolution, the rocky planets formed from a single disc of dust and debris in the early solar system, but new simulations indicate there might have been two separate discs of material.

Models featuring a single disc or ring of material around the young sun tend to be unable to recreate several features of the solar system as we observe it. For one, Earth seems to be made of two different kinds of rocks, which wouldn’t make sense if they all came from the same ring.

Also, single-ring models tend to end up with Mercury and Mars too big, Venus and Earth too close together and the compositions of Earth and Mars too similar.

The real history of the planets can be read from the book of Genesis, in which God made the planets and stars at one go.

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Leah Crane 2026 Earth may have formed from two separate rings around the sun | New Scientist 24 March