It's time for some strange science. Strange it's like weird science, but strange. A couple of good ones. Today there was a beast, a newly identified basteton Bastatodon, thought to have been a leopard sized dog, basically at the top of its food chain the same time that our ancestors were evolving from the monkiness. These findings, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Fascinating Classified ads by the way, said that the creature would have likely preyed on primates, very
early elephants and hippos and high raxes. What is a high rex in the forest of Egypt which is now a desert? Of course. The paleontologist and the lead author of this from Mansoura University and the American University in Cairo, said they meticulously excavated layers of rock dating a back of our own thirty million years. And they say, just as they were about to wrap it up for the day, a team member spotted something remarkable, a very large set
of teeth sticking out of the ground. His excited shout brought the team together marked the beginning of an extraordinary discovery. A nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore A
dream for any vertebrate paleontologist, if you say so. The skull was unearthed during their team's expedition to the Faiyume Depression, which is in the Egyptian desert to the west of the Nile River, fame for its fossils, for its ancient Egyptian artifacts and digs there have revealed a window of about fifteen million years, they say, of evolutionary history of mammals in Africa, Bastetadon Bastetidon belonging to an ancient group of carnivorous and mammals known as I'm not even going
to try it. The predators had hyena like teeth, and they said the evolved long before the modern day carnivores like cats and dogs, and they hunted in the African ecosystems after the extinction of the dinosaurs. If you are looking for a way to fuel your vehicle, there are new vast reserves, they say, of white hydrogen that may exist within mountain ranges. White hydrogen has gained the attention recently because it has a potential to replace fossil fuels.
It was only a couple decades ago that some scientists started saying that the fuel even existed within the Earth's crust. In now, what they're saying are pretty large amounts the natural or geologic hydrogen, And they've talked about how it forms, about where it might be located, and the main problem has been working out where to find volumes of it that are large enough that would be useful considering how much energy we use every single day around the Earth.
So to find answers, they put together some computer models to simulate the movement of the tectonic plates and then point areas where the right conditions would exist for generating again white hydrogen geologic hydrogen, and they found that mountain ranges like the Pyrenees and the European Alps are potential hotspots.
The hydrogen, of course, is produced when water produces only water, i should say, when burned, has long been eyed as a safe green fuel, especially for aviation for steel making, But a lot of commercial hydrogen is made using the fossil fuels, so it completely cancels out whatever sort of climate saving power you have, which is why when the Earth makes it itself that's going to be a much more tantalizing prospect, you could talk about it. White hydrogen
really started being talked about in the late eighties. In Mali, a water well exploded a worker was leaning over the edge with a cigarette and the well was covered, but was unplugged in twenty eleven has and it's been producing oxygen that helps power the local village. This is one of those places where it just naturally occurs and they were able to harvest it. You can find it in the United States, it's been found in Australia, it's been
found in France. The problem is it's not a lot, and they're hoping that they're going to be able to find a place that has a lot of this white hydrogen and then somehow get it out and use it to power all of our vehicles and phones and AI computers and things like that. And then finally, scientists at the University of Bristol have used a powerful supercomputer to create a picture of Earth's distant future and to predict
when we're all going to die. And I think they're getting it wrong because it doesn't say anything about the asteroid. In twenty twenty thirty two, they said temperatures would predicted will be exceeding one hundred and four degrees in some areas, some reaching over one hundred and twenty two. Combine that with dense humidity, it will push conditions beyond the limits for most mammals, including the mammals that look a lot like you and I