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The book theComing Global Superstorm was criticized for making the casethat mass extinctions of various types of bison, mammoths,horses in the Americas and many other large animals aroundthe world, were due to sudden climate change.

The conventional wisdom was that these extinctions were dueto mass slaughter by human beings. Now it seems that climatechange might indeed have been the primary factor in theextinctions.

Recent geneticstudies confirm that the disappearance of millions ofmammoths, wooly rhinos and other creatures were not due tohunting at all, but rather appear to be related to a suddenchange in climate.
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Volcanic eruptions are more likely to cause world weather changes than possible impacts from comets, a team of scientists told the American Geophysical Union. Massiveeruptions of magma, ash and gas, which are spewing out of Popocatepetl near Mexico City right now, can have a severe and lasting impact on the world?s climate. Andvolcanic activity is on the rise worldwide.
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Strange animal behavior has been on the rise, and now a podof dolphins, acting in an organized way, has saved a groupof swimmers from a great white shark.

The pod of dolphins circled the swimmers off the coast ofNew Zealand, herding them in a tight circle, then swimmingaround them. The swimmers soon noticed that there was agreat white shark outside the pod of dolphins, alsocircling, attempting to get through the dolphins to theswimmers.

The swimmers were an experienced lifesaving group swimming300 feet off the coast of New Zealand’s North Island, nearthe town of Whangarei. When one of them drifted away fromthe others, he saw a nine foot great white shark in thecrystal clear water, and realized that they were under attack.
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Russian archaeologists believe that they have discoveredanother Stonehenge. The 4,000 year old structure appearssimilar in construction to Stonehenge, and means that theculture that created the famous British site might have beenestablished across a vast area of the world in prehistory.

In addition to the remains of the structure found in theRyazan area, ritual implements have been found that mightshed light on the religious practices and culture of thepeople who built the two monuments. Few such remains havebeen located near Stonehenge in Salisbury, so this findcould have great importance in understanding the mysteriousculture of the henge builders.
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