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Hot Comet News, Cold Shoulders from the Newspaper Science Desks

Last updated: August 10, 2025 The Cosmic Tusk is pleased—frankly, thrilled—to see broad international coverage of the new PLOS ONE paper documenting cometary debris in Baffin Bay sediments and strengthening the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. From Live Science and Discover to Phys.org and ScienceAlert, the story has traveled fast and far across languages and outlets. But here’s something…
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NYT: 6000 word Sunday feature article on the YDI and Comet Research Group

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Martin Sweatman Drops Facinating Paper on Turkish Tepes

Cosmic Summit 2023 speaker and longtime Tusk buddy Dr. Martin Sweatman has published yet another gem of global interest. The Independent: ‘World’s oldest calendar’ found carved onto ancient monument University of Edinburgh: Ancient carvings in Turkey could be earliest solar calendar Sci News: Gobekli Tepe’s Carvings World’s Oldest Solar Calendar MSN: Edinburgh University discover…
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Nickel Films in the Carolina Bays: Smoking Gun fired from Russia

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Ancient airburst over Ohio

Background from Smithsonian Magazine Breakdown from Archeothoughts Erudite Tusk commentor Stuart Hamish below refers accurately to this Neuheuser and Neuheuser paper responding to Tankersley et al., as “hair splitting.” I’d agree. Stuart also includes some juicy tidbits about other modern impacts that are worth sharing. Incidentally, I plan to take Stuart up on his suggestion…
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Key paper reveals the astonishing cosmic secret behind "Boneyard Alaska"

Comet Research Group member Marc Young presents at Flinders U

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Cosmic airburst of biblical proportions revealed by Comet Research Group

230,000 read actual paper first week Worlds Most Popular science pub? CRG press release The Conversation UC Santa Barbara Daily Mail A few of my photos This is an easy Monday post. The Tusk was a minor co-author of a paper with extraordinary implications for science and faith published today in Nature’s Scientific Reports. The lengthy journal article has been under development since 2014…
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Hot Comet News, Cold Shoulders from the Newspaper Science Desks

NYT: 6000 word Sunday feature article on the YDI and Comet Research Group

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America's skeptic changes mind on #ydih

Michael Shermer, Founding Publisher of Skeptic Magazine, tweeted Graham Hancock an extraordinary note this week. Shermer announced that based on last week’s blockbuster Abu Hureyra paper he was persuaded to re-think his position on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. What a welcome development in the long effort to win the hearts and minds of persistent critics of global cataclysm at…
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Comet Research Group kicks off new journal with blockbuster papers

Alpine Younger Dryas Impact evidence

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Planet's earliest agricultural village melted by cosmic hell in Syria

The Sun and The Express I am still planning to post some commentary on the substance of the paper itself, but in the meantime I wanted make an observation concerning the lead author, Dr. Andrew Moore. Many followers of the YDIH publishing saga lament for good reason that the subject has not “gone mainstream.” Which, in the case of this profound hypothesis, would require the…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

Gunther Kletetschka Drops the Tunguska Hammer

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2019 AGU abstract supports Younger Dryas "exacerbated" by cosmic impact

Sharma, 2013 This week is “abstract reveal” week for the enormous annual conference of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) held each December (See Tusk at 2009 AGU). So each year around this time I search the AGU website for any coming presentations concerning the Younger Dryas and cosmic impact. Fall Meeting 2019 San Fran turned up an interesting hit. Mukul Sharma, a geochemistry…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

Gunther Kletetschka Drops the Tunguska Hammer

Comet Research Group kicks off new journal with blockbuster papers

Alpine Younger Dryas Impact evidence

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Africa

NY Post Gizmodo Quartz Francis Thackeray This confirmation of a South African platinum layer from the Younger Dryas Impact was particularly welcome for several reasons.  First, it is another confirmation of evidence for  the impact in the Southern Hemisphere, following the Pilauco paper from Chile in March of this year. Second, the lead author, Francis Thackeray, is no light weight, as…
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The CRG Strikes Again: Deep Sea Sediments Support Younger Dryas Impact

Gunther Kletetschka Drops the Tunguska Hammer

The Bos & Co

Late to the Party

An instructive video accompanies the paper I’m trying to get out of town for a beach weekend, but I’ve wanted to get this paper up for days. The newly prominent role of the Taurids among American space scientists, with the role of The Bos discussed in a recent Tusk post here, is peculiar but not unwelcome. Fortunately, and perhaps for sake of the authors’ sense of integrity, the…
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#Pebblegate over; Tall el-Hammam paper remains published