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<v Speaker 1>It's time for some strange science. Strange it's like weird science,

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<v Speaker 1>but strange. A couple of good ones. Today there was

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<v Speaker 1>a beast, a newly identified basteton Bastatodon, thought to have

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<v Speaker 1>been a leopard sized dog, basically at the top of

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<v Speaker 1>its food chain the same time that our ancestors were

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<v Speaker 1>evolving from the monkiness. These findings, published in the Journal

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<v Speaker 1>of Vertebrate Paleontology Fascinating Classified ads by the way, said

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<v Speaker 1>that the creature would have likely preyed on primates, very

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<v Speaker 1>early elephants and hippos and high raxes. What is a

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<v Speaker 1>high rex in the forest of Egypt which is now

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<v Speaker 1>a desert? Of course. The paleontologist and the lead author

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<v Speaker 1>of this from Mansoura University and the American University in Cairo,

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<v Speaker 1>said they meticulously excavated layers of rock dating a back

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<v Speaker 1>of our own thirty million years. And they say, just

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<v Speaker 1>as they were about to wrap it up for the day,

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<v Speaker 1>a team member spotted something remarkable, a very large set

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<v Speaker 1>of teeth sticking out of the ground. His excited shout

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<v Speaker 1>brought the team together marked the beginning of an extraordinary discovery.

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<v Speaker 1>A nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore A

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<v Speaker 1>dream for any vertebrate paleontologist, if you say so. The

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<v Speaker 1>skull was unearthed during their team's expedition to the Faiyume Depression,

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<v Speaker 1>which is in the Egyptian desert to the west of

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<v Speaker 1>the Nile River, fame for its fossils, for its ancient

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<v Speaker 1>Egyptian artifacts and digs there have revealed a window of

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<v Speaker 1>about fifteen million years, they say, of evolutionary history of

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<v Speaker 1>mammals in Africa, Bastetadon Bastetidon belonging to an ancient group

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<v Speaker 1>of carnivorous and mammals known as I'm not even going

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<v Speaker 1>to try it. The predators had hyena like teeth, and

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<v Speaker 1>they said the evolved long before the modern day carnivores

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<v Speaker 1>like cats and dogs, and they hunted in the African

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<v Speaker 1>ecosystems after the extinction of the dinosaurs. If you are

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<v Speaker 1>looking for a way to fuel your vehicle, there are

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<v Speaker 1>new vast reserves, they say, of white hydrogen that may

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<v Speaker 1>exist within mountain ranges. White hydrogen has gained the attention

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<v Speaker 1>recently because it has a potential to replace fossil fuels.

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<v Speaker 1>It was only a couple decades ago that some scientists

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<v Speaker 1>started saying that the fuel even existed within the Earth's crust.

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<v Speaker 1>In now, what they're saying are pretty large amounts the

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<v Speaker 1>natural or geologic hydrogen, And they've talked about how it forms,

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<v Speaker 1>about where it might be located, and the main problem

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<v Speaker 1>has been working out where to find volumes of it

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<v Speaker 1>that are large enough that would be useful considering how

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<v Speaker 1>much energy we use every single day around the Earth.

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<v Speaker 1>So to find answers, they put together some computer models

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<v Speaker 1>to simulate the movement of the tectonic plates and then

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<v Speaker 1>point areas where the right conditions would exist for generating

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<v Speaker 1>again white hydrogen geologic hydrogen, and they found that mountain

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<v Speaker 1>ranges like the Pyrenees and the European Alps are potential hotspots.

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<v Speaker 1>The hydrogen, of course, is produced when water produces only water,

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<v Speaker 1>i should say, when burned, has long been eyed as

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<v Speaker 1>a safe green fuel, especially for aviation for steel making,

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<v Speaker 1>But a lot of commercial hydrogen is made using the

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<v Speaker 1>fossil fuels, so it completely cancels out whatever sort of

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<v Speaker 1>climate saving power you have, which is why when the

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<v Speaker 1>Earth makes it itself that's going to be a much

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<v Speaker 1>more tantalizing prospect, you could talk about it. White hydrogen

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<v Speaker 1>really started being talked about in the late eighties. In Mali,

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<v Speaker 1>a water well exploded a worker was leaning over the

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<v Speaker 1>edge with a cigarette and the well was covered, but

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<v Speaker 1>was unplugged in twenty eleven has and it's been producing

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<v Speaker 1>oxygen that helps power the local village. This is one

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<v Speaker 1>of those places where it just naturally occurs and they

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<v Speaker 1>were able to harvest it. You can find it in

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<v Speaker 1>the United States, it's been found in Australia, it's been

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<v Speaker 1>found in France. The problem is it's not a lot,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're hoping that they're going to be able to

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<v Speaker 1>find a place that has a lot of this white

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<v Speaker 1>hydrogen and then somehow get it out and use it

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<v Speaker 1>to power all of our vehicles and phones and AI

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<v Speaker 1>computers and things like that. And then finally, scientists at

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<v Speaker 1>the University of Bristol have used a powerful supercomputer to

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<v Speaker 1>create a picture of Earth's distant future and to predict

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<v Speaker 1>when we're all going to die. And I think they're

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<v Speaker 1>getting it wrong because it doesn't say anything about the asteroid.

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<v Speaker 1>In twenty twenty thirty two, they said temperatures would predicted

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<v Speaker 1>will be exceeding one hundred and four degrees in some areas,

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<v Speaker 1>some reaching over one hundred and twenty two. Combine that

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<v Speaker 1>with dense humidity, it will push conditions beyond the limits

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<v Speaker 1>for most mammals, including the mammals that look a lot

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<v Speaker 1>like you and I