expect the unexpected
At Kuk in the central highlands of New Guinea something remarkable happened around the time of the fall of Atlantis. So momentous are these discoveries that the area has been designated a World Heritage Site. [1] New Guinea is the third largest island in the world after Antarctica and Greenland. A mysterious land, Europeans did [...]
On July 4th 1996, geologist Tim Heaton was excavating in an abandoned bear cave at the northern tip of Prince of Wales Island in the Alaska panhandle. The site known as “On Your Knees Cave” had been discovered in 1993 by a logging survey team. Just a kilometer from Sumner Strait and 125 meters above [...]
In the heady days of the 19th century geology was the darling discipline of science. Used as the foundation for Darwin’s theory of evolution the notion of gradual change showed how over millions of years time could accomplish everything that was needed to explain the earth’s past. The idea was revolutionary and profound. In the [...]