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On Thursday, scientists announced the discovery of a 9-foot-long crocodilian ancestor that roamed prehistoric North Carolina 231 million years ago.

The discovery of the new species known as Carolina butcher or Carnufex carolinensis was published in a paper in the journal Scientific Reports.

The scientists also announced the species' discovery with a public presentation at the science museum in downtown Raleigh starting at 11 am.

The presentation includes what the creature might have looked like, based on the few bones that were found in the Pekin Formation in Chatham County, North Carolina. Palaeontologists found parts of the crocodile's skull, spine and upper forelimb.

A team of astronomers and geologists at Durham University have come up with a new map of the moon's most rare volcano. The map unveiled that the volcano's eruption spits out material in a greater area than thought.

The researchers have studied an area of lunar surface in the Compton-Belkovich Volcanic Complex. They mapped thorium, radioactive element, which was spewed out during the eruption. Astronomers came to know that the volcano's debris covered an area equivalent to the size of Scotland.

The eruption happened 3.5 billion years ago. The researchers used data from NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft that spotted the volcano site for the first time in 1999. The researchers have used a pixon image enhancement technique to improve the map.

Climatic conditions are threatening Antarctic glaciers as the region could face irreversible ice loss. As per researchers, if East Antarctic's Totten glacier would melt then it would lead to a 10 feet sea level rise in America.

The researchers affirmed that warm water that flows beneath the Antarctic glacier is the main reason considered for melting of the glacier. Through two earlier unknown pathways, the warm water is flowing from the ocean's depths and is reducing the thickness of Totten Glacier severely.

Earlier research suggested that warmer and saltier water could be flowing beneath colder water off the coast of Antarctic. The new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has unveiled that warmer water is moving up on the seafloor towards the coastline.

A former Facebook employee is taking legal action against the social media giant for number of claims involving sex discrimination, sexual harassment, race discrimination, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The lawsuit was filed at the San Mateo County Superior Court and named Facebook as the defendant and Chia Hong as the plaintiff. Hong, who started working at Facebook in 2010, claimed that the company had a 'hostile work environment', where she was asked to organize parties and serve drinks to male colleagues. According to Hong, Facebook fired her in 2013 because she submitted a complaint against her boss Anil Wilson.

Al Gore, former vice president and current chairman and founder of the Climate Reality Project, recently discussed about the climate crisis at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas.

In the discussion, he has focused on a need to punish politicians who deny the current problems in climate change.

SXSW, which is running from March 9 to 22 this year, is a large film and music festival running annually for around past 20 years. During SXSW, designers, developers, investors, entrepreneurs, and politicians come together for many days of discussions about technology, innovation, and the future.

More than a dozen California cab companies charged a lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. over misleading advertisements related to the safety provided by the company. According to the complaint filed by Yellow Cab Co. and other operators in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Barbara, the company gives the wrong impression about the background checks it employs for screening of its drivers.

Uber, an American international company headquartered in San Francisco, California, generated $1.2 billion in December at a valuation of $40 billion. The company has been criticized a lot in some cities over its app-based, on- demand transportation service, which used drivers with no taxi or limousine licenses.