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Solar plane lands in New York City

A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said.  The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website.  Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
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250 million year old fossil of reptile discovered from Brazil

A newly discovered 250-million-year-old fossil reptile from Brazil gives an "extraordinary" insight into life just before the dinosaurs appeared.  At the time, the world was recovering from a massive extinction that wiped out most living species.  The reptile, named Teyujagua or "fierce lizard", is the close relative of a group that gave rise to dinosaurs, crocodiles and birds.  The fossil is "beautiful" and fills an evolutionary gap, say scientists.  Dr Richard Butler from the University of Birmingham said the animal is a new species that has not been previously known.  "It's very close to the ancestry of a very important group of reptiles called archosauriforms," the co-researcher on the study, published in the journalScientific Reports, told. "It helps us understand how that group evolved."  Teyujagua paradoxa was a small crocodile-like animal that probably lived at the side of lakes, feeding on fish.  The ancient rept...
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Scientists found how an ancient reptile swam in the oceans at the time of the dinosaurs

PC reenactments recommend the plesiosaur traveled through the water like a penguin, utilizing its front appendages as oars and back appendages for guiding.   The animal's swimming walk has been a puzzle since bones of the first known example were uncovered from underneath a Dorset precipice 200 years prior.   The plesiosaur was found by the fossil seeker Mary Anning in 1821.  At the time even the name dinosaur had not been developed.   An experimental paper disclosing Anning's locate a couple of years after the fact brought up the issue of how the marine animal swam, given its strange sets of wing-like flippers. The open deliberation has proceeded until today, with a PC recreation in view of a Jurassic fossil example giving proof for penguin-like motion.Dr Adam Smith of Nottingham Natural History Museum chipped away at the study.  He clarified that scientistss were isolated on whether the marine animal utilized its four appendages as a part of a paddlin...
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An international scientists unearthed fossils of reptile and amphibian in Brazil, dating from 278 million years ago

The fossils include two new species of "dvinosaur" - extinct cousins of modern salamanders - which were about 40cm long, one of them with fangs and gills.  South America's oldest ever terrestrial reptile skeleton was also in the haul.  The finds are reported in the journal Nature Communications. The ancient reptile is a lizard-like creature called Captorhinus aguti, previously only found in North America.  These discoveries, all from north-eastern Brazil, are noteworthy because little is known about the plants and animals that occupied this region during the Permian period; the southern tropics of the "supercontinent" Pangaea are not well-populated by fossil finds.One of the study's co-authors, Dr Martha Richter from the Natural History Museum in London, said: "This discovery is remarkable as most of what we understand about the evolution and adaptation of amphibians through time is based on animals located in Europe and North America. "No...
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