Noumenal News

Tiny they may be, but fossil diatoms discovered deep under the ocean floor are revealing new details about Antarctica’s warmer past.
The single-celled algae were pulled up by the Antarctic Geological Drilling (Andrill) Program, which has been operating from the Ross Ice Shelf.
Some are new to science; others would normally only be expected in waters with […]

Explorers of the human odyssey have been squabbling bitterly since the
fossilised skeletons of tiny hominids, dubbed after the diminutive
hobbits in J.R.R. Tolkien’s tale, were found on the island of Flores in
2003.

Measuring just a metre (3.25 feet) tall and with a skull the size of a
grapefruit, the diminutive folk lived around 20,000 and 80,000 years
ago and […]

A Cardiff fossil expert has identified a pair of 385-million-year-old trees, thought to be among the world’s oldest.
American researchers found fossilised remains in New York state two years ago, but their identity was unknown.
They called in Dr Christopher Berry from Cardiff University, who confirmed the remains are from the Genus Wattieza, a fern-like plant which […]

A large number of “stone eggs” were recently discovered along with a copper sword at a construction site in Bandeng Hill and Zhanlong Hill, Gongxi Town of Hunan Province. The discoveries were made by highway construction workers while they were digging the foundation for a road.
The origin of the stone eggs is currently unknown as […]

FOR some people, the Beltane Fire Festival is nothing more than a bunch of hippies getting drunk, getting naked and lighting hazardous fires on a hilltop. But there’s a lot more to Edinburgh’s festival of pagans and wiccans than that. This month Beltane celebrates its 20th anniversary, with a fortnight of activities, workshops and seminars […]

A FURNESS family had a close encounter with a possible UFO — while enjoying a takeaway.
Janice Jackson of Devon Street, Barrow, saw bright lights in the sky at around 10pm on Saturday.
Lasting about 15 seconds, the light show passed overhead and on towards Roose.
She said: “I was sat in the backyard with my family having […]

BELOIT-It was a stormy night in the New Mexico desert July 3, 1947, when something unusual happened not far from Roswell.
Did an interplanetary craft crash and set off one of the most monumental cover-ups in history?
Donald R. Schmitt is convinced it did.
Schmitt, who spoke Tuesday night at Beloit College on “The Roswell Crash: What Really […]