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Three people missing and feared dead from fierce Colorado wildfire

January 2, 2022 Admin Leave a comment

DENVER, Jan 1 (Reuters) – Three people are missing and feared dead after a wind-stoked wildfire roared through two towns in Boulder County, Colorado, prompting thousands of evacuations and destroying nearly 1,000 homes, authorities said on Saturday.

Officials initially said there were no reports of fatalities or missing residents following the rare urban wildfire that erupted Thursday morning on the northern outskirts of the Denver metropolitan area.

Wind gusts in excess of 100 miles per hour (160 kph) pushed flames eastward into the towns of Superior and Louisville, prompting the evacuation of both communities.

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In about two hours, the fire had scorched 6,000 acres, officials said.

Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said the three missing people, whom he declined to identify, all lived in homes that were consumed by the blaze.

A view shows remains of homes that were destroyed by the Marshall Fire in Louisville, Colorado, U.S. December 31, 2021. REUTERS/Alyson McClaran

“The structures where these folks would be are completely destroyed and covered with about eight inches of snow,” Pelle said at a Saturday news briefing, adding cadaver dogs will be deployed on Sunday to search the dwellings.

Pelle said 991 homes in Superior, Louisville and in unincorporated parts of the county have been destroyed, making it the most destructive wildfire in state history in terms of residences lost.

Officials initially said sparks from downed power lines that were toppled by the gale-force winds may have sparked the blaze, but an inspection by utility company Xcel Energy found no damaged or downed lines near the fire’s believed origin.

Pelle said detectives are investigating all avenues to determine what ignited the conflagration. Acting on a tip, the sheriff said a search warrant was issued in connection to the probe, but declined to offer any details.

U.S. President Joe Biden has declared the scene a national disaster, freeing up federal funds to assist affected people and businesses in recovery efforts, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said in a statement.

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Fierce ‘hell heron’ dinosaur puts new wrinkles in Spinosaurus origin story

October 1, 2021 Admin Leave a comment

Today, the southwestern coast of the U.K.’s Isle of Wight is a picturesque seascape framed by sandstone cliffs. But more than 125 million years ago, this vista was a savanna-like valley cut through with rivers and floodplains—a fitting home for two new hulking dinosaurs with sleek, crocodile-like skulls.

Described in the journal Scientific Reports, fossils found on the island belong to two new types of spinosaurid, an enigmatic group of large predatory dinosaurs famed for their croc-like appearance. Based on the proportions of close cousins, the two dinosaurs would have been intimidating to behold. Each was about 26 feet long, snout to tail, and roughly 6.6 feet tall at the hip.

Scientists gave them names to match: Ceratosuchops inferodios roughly translates to “horned, crocodile-faced hell heron,” drawing inspiration from proposals that spinosaurids were riverbank predators like today’s herons. Riparovenator milnerae means “Milner’s riverbank hunter” in tribute to U.K. spinosaurid expert Angela Milner.

The bones of both species are fragmentary, but they add crucial diversity to the ranks of spinosaurids, which are poorly understood and had bizarre anatomical features, such as croc-like snouts and the occasional giant sails on their backs.

The fossil discoveries may also shed light on spinosaurids’ evolutionary origins by pinning down the group’s family tree with greater accuracy. That, in turn, can help paleontologists studying the iconic dinosaur Spinosaurus, which made its home in the river systems of what is now northern Africa more than 95 million years ago.

For lead study author Chris Barker, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southampton, the study is the pinnacle of a lifetime of fascination with carnivorous dinosaurs. As a young child, he regularly visited London’s Natural History Museum, staring in awe at a cast of the spinosaurid Baryonyx—one of the closest relatives of Barker’s new discoveries.

“Being able to study something which as a kid you almost idolized—I recognize how privileged I am today,” he says.

The newly described fossils underscore just how many more dinosaurs there are still left to find. Ceratosuchops and Riparovenator hail from the Wessex Formation, part of a broader set of rock layers that paleontologists have combed over since the early 1800s.

“We are still, in many ways, in our infancy in our knowledge of the diversity of ancient dinosaurs,” says University of Maryland paleontologist Tom Holtz, an expert on spinosaurids who wasn’t involved with the new study. “We haven’t plateaued, even for what we think of as well-studied formations!”

Hunting for spinosaurs

Although fossils of spinosaurids have been known for more than a century, reconstructing the animals has been a decades-long slog. Fossils are rare and often fragmentary; the first known bones of Spinosaurus were destroyed in World War II, hindering efforts to study the creature.

In 1986, British paleontologists Alan Charig and Angela Milner announced that the rocks of Surrey, England, had yielded a largely complete spinosaurid that lived about 129 million to 125 million years ago. This fossil, named Baryonyx walkeri, confirmed that spinosaurids had sleek, crocodile-like skulls, large front claws, and long, slender necks. Baryonyx now serves as a key spinosaurid reference, helping to fill in the details of others that have since been found in Spain, Brazil, Thailand, Morocco, Niger, and Australia.

In the decades since, the rocks of southern England have yielded hints that Baryonyx wasn’t the only spinosaurid around. For instance, spinosaurid teeth found in the region’s rocks came in a variety of forms and shapes—perhaps consistent with variation from individual to individual, but perhaps also a sign of multiple species kicking around in the rocks.

Enter Neil Gostling, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Southampton. Gostling had been working to form a partnership with the Isle of Wight’s Dinosaur Isle Museum when he caught word that the museum had acquired some fossils found at Chilton Chine, a nearby coastal gully ringed by ancient sandstone cliffs. In 2019, Barker started his Ph.D. under Gostling and decided to take on the bones for his research.

Over several years, Barker carefully noted many different anatomical traits across the bones and compared those traits with those of known spinosaurids. When he and his colleagues ran computer models on these data, they found that the Isle of Wight remains probably represented two different types of spinosaurid, both of which were close relatives of Baryonyx and a spinosaurid from Niger called Suchomimus.

Near the project’s end, Barker, Gostling, and their colleagues put together an email chain to workshop the new dinosaurs’ names. Milner had died in August at the age of 73, following a distinguished career at the U.K.’s Natural History Museum. The team agreed that honoring her “just seemed like the right thing to do,” says Gostling. “She was the person who really brought it forward and made spinosaurs a group that people understood and were aware of.”

Strange migrations

For now, it’s not clear whether Ceratosuchops and Riparovenator overlapped in time with each other or with Baryonyx. The new dinosaurs’ bones fell out of the exposed cliffsides, making it that much harder to know which exact rock layers entombed them—information that would more accurately date the bones. The best estimate is that both new species lived roughly 129 million to 125 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period.

Still, the new study sheds light on spinosaurids’ movement across ancient Earth. When Barker and his colleagues made an updated family tree for the group, they found that most of the oldest species near the base of the tree lived in what’s now Europe.

That discovery strengthens the idea that spinosaurids’ ancestral homeland was in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly within Europe. If so, spinosaurids migrated into what’s now Africa at least twice: one wave that yielded Niger’s Suchomimus, and a second, later wave that gave rise to Spinosaurus and its North African kin.

But if spinosaurids arose in Europe, a major dino-mystery deepens. Throughout much of the age of dinosaurs, Europe, Asia, and North America were connected. Spinosaurid remains have been found in Europe and Asia, but no clear fossil evidence of the group has ever been found in North America.

The absence of North American spinosaurids is all the more puzzling because other dinosaur groups clearly had no problem moving between North America and Asia during this time. There are no obvious signs that spinosaurids would have lacked North American real estate. Rock formations in Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Texas, and Maryland all date to when spinosaurids lived elsewhere, and they preserve spinosaurids’ preferred coastal or river habitats.

“There’s nothing really super-special that might have excluded them—so yeah, this is a curious fact,” Holtz says. “All we need to do is discover one tooth.”

Back on the Isle of Wight, Barker and Gostling’s work on spinosaurids is only just beginning. Barker notes that the fossils of Ceratosuchops and Riparovenator include portions of the dinosaurs’ braincases, which means that future scans of the fossils could provide data on the animals’ brain shapes.

They add that the Isle of Wight has yielded more spinosaurid fossils that are waiting to be described—material that will stay with Ceratosuchops and Riparovenator in the Dinosaur Isle Museum, providing a scientific destination and a cultural landmark for the Isle of Wight.

“We cannot stress how important having a dinosaur museum—a functional, proper dinosaur museum—on the Isle of Wight is for the Isle of Wight dinosaurs,” Gostling says. “They’re not being sent somewhere else around the world. They’re in the place where they were found.”

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Ida’s path of destruction in N.J.: Rising death toll, epic flooding, fierce tornado damage, houses destroyed

September 2, 2021 Admin Leave a comment

Roadways turned into rivers. Downed trees and power lines blocked roads and damaged houses. And a tornado ripped through a southern Jersey town, destroying at least 20 houses.

In one of the fiercest storms to hit New Jersey in recent years, Tropical Storm Ida delivered a knockout punch, wreaking havoc across the state as it took lives, flooded downtowns and caused untold millions of dollars in damage.

As of midday Thursday, at least nine people in New Jersey died from the storm, including four who died in an apartment complex in Elizabeth.

Ida left few areas in New Jersey unscathed, with the destruction spanning the state from Passaic County in the north to Gloucester County down south. While the storm had been predicted to have a massive impact — Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency in all of New Jersey’s 21 counties — the destruction, at first look Thursday morning, was far greater than many had feared.

“There is a lot of hurt in New Jersey,” Murphy said Thursday morning as he pledged to use all resources available to help residents deal with the widespread damage. “We’re pulling all the levers. It’s going to be a long road,” he said as he implored people to stay off the roads.

Ida’s confirmed death toll as of noon Thursday surpassed the state’s losses from Hurricane Floyd and the numbers may still rise as rescue crews continue their searches.

In 2011, nine people in New Jersey died from Hurricane Irene, most from drowning in the raging flood waters while trapped inside their cars. Six people drowned in New Jersey during Hurricane Floyd in 1999, including two deaths each in Somerset and Bergen counties and one each in Passaic and Salem counties. At least 40 people from New Jersey died during Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

The worst flooding from Ida may be yet to come. As of midday Thursday, some rivers had not yet reached their peak flood stage.

The Passaic River in Pine Brook and Little Falls, the Raritan River in Bound Brook and the Assunpink Creek in Trenton are forecast by the National Weather Service to keep rising until 6 p.m. Friday. The Delaware River at Easton/Phillipsburg is forecast to crest around 6 p.m. on Thursday, the weather service said.

The storm also upended transportation across the state, temporarily shutting down Newark International Airport Wednesday night, with nearly 400 flights canceled. Flooding closed part of one terminal and some roads remain closed. Teterboro Airport was also shut down. NJ Transit rail service is still suspended, except for the Atlantic City Rail Line, while buses are running with localized delays as they encounter roads closed by flooding and downed trees.

More than 60,000 people remained without power as of midday Thursday. For PSE&G customers, Essex County had the most outages with more than 14,000. JCP&L’s outages included more than 8,000 in Morris, nearly 8,000 in Hunterdon and more than 7,500 in Sussex counties.

Because the waters of the Raritan River spilled across Route 18 in New Brunswick and were still rising Thursday, Rutgers’ postponed its football season opener against Temple until Saturday.

As of noon Thursday, authorities confirmed at least nine deaths from the storm.

In Elizabeth, four residents of the Oakwood Plaza Apartments complex on Irvington Avenue died during the storm, and rescue personnel are trying to determine if there may be more casualties. The dead include a married couple in their 70s, their 38-year-old son and a 33-year-old female neighbor but their names have not been released, authorities said.

On Thursday morning, police were calling every listed resident and going door-to-door to apartments to check on other residents, city spokeswoman Kelly Martins said.

“Our police and fire are going door-to-door to pretty much do a wellness check at this point and see if there are unfortunately anymore,” said Martins.

Some 600 Elizabeth residents are homeless because of the storm, officials said.

In Middlesex County, a man died when he was swept into a 36-inch storm sewer pipe, Mayor Matthew Anesh said in a statement.

Authorities said two men were swept into the pipe, which travels under Stelton Road from South Plainfield to Piscataway, on Wednesday night, but only one of the men was rescued.

Then on Thursday, police said, they discovered the body of Dhanush Reddy, 31, of Edison, in a wooded area in Piscataway.

Two people were found dead in submerged vehicles in Hillsborough Township, Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Deputy Chief Frank Roman Jr. said. The deaths took place between late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.

Roman said a preliminary investigation found both individuals drove into flooded waters.

In Milford, Hunterdon County, a driver was found dead in a pickup truck in a creek off Carpenter Street, Mayor Henri Schepens said. The driver’s name has not yet been released and New Jersey State Police are investigating the death.

“We don’t know where the vehicle came from,” Schepens said. “It could have gone through many bridges. It went for quite the distance. The whole roof was smashed in. Water is amazingly powerful.”

In Passaic, a 70-year-old man drowned in a car fully submerged in rising flood waters in Passaic on Wednesday night, Passaic mayor Hector Lora said. The man’s 66-year-old wife and 25-year-old son were rescued by firefighters, but two others may have been swept away by flooding, Lora said. The 70-year-old man’s name has not been released.

Lora said others at least two others are feared dead, swept away by the Passaic River, and divers would continue searching.

“This is just yet another reminder, these come more frequently,” said Murphy, noting that climate change exposes New Jersey in part because of its dense population. “We have got to update our playbook. We’ve got to turn it up, but in the meantime we’re going to be there for folks as they pick up the pieces and recover.”

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Karin Price Mueller may be reached at KPriceMueller@NJAdvanceMedia.com.

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Ella Emhoff Makes Fierce Runway Debut at Paris Fashion Week

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Ella Emhoff might be the second daughter of the United States, but she definitely is first in our hearts at Paris Fashion Week.

The 22-year-old, who just graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York City, showed that she has more than just an eye for fashion when she walked the runway for Balenciaga’s Fall/Winter 2021/2022 collection on July 7.

Vice President Kamala Harris‘s stepdaughter gave her Instagram followers a luxurious taste of what she experienced at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week. The first pic showed Emhoff modeling an oversized black blazer and extra-oversized black coat with her hair slicked back. Emhoff wore her signature glasses.

In the next slide, Emhoff posted a clip of her walking down the Balenciaga runway in her look. The last pic the model shared was of her footwear, which was concealed when she was walking the event.

She thanked Balenciaga creative director Demna Gvasalia for the “truly amazing” presentation.

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McDonald’s Joins the Fierce Fight for Chicken Sandwich Supremacy

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After the fillet, the focus turned to the bun. Fifteen to 20 varieties of buns and rolls were considered. More sandwiches were made and taste-tested. “It was tons of buns,” Mr. Link said.

Ultimately, McDonald’s decided, for the first time, to use a potato roll for one of its sandwiches. The roll is toasted with a creamy butter, dispensed through new warmers that are being installed in the restaurants.

“It’s sweet and buttery, a really nice complement to the savory of the chicken,” said Linda VanGosen, the head of U.S. menu strategy at McDonald’s.

Last, but not least, came the two pickles. “I learned a lot about pickles,” Mr. Link said with a laugh, explaining that the crinkle-cut pickle McDonald’s uses means more crunch and more pickle flavor on the sandwich.

Instead of the cardboard boxes that McDonald’s uses for most of its sandwiches, the original Crispy Chicken sandwich and the spicy version will be served in a foil bag.

By late 2019, the new chicken sandwich was being tested in restaurants in Houston and Knoxville, Tenn. After successful test runs, plans were set to release the sandwiches last summer. But those plans were sidelined as the coronavirus pandemic swept across the country and franchise owners were focused on keeping their doors open and employees safe.

“Our attention needed to be on serving our customers,” Ms. VanGosen said. “It was just not the right time to launch.”

Mr. Link said the sandwich would be worth the wait.

“I’m pretty passionate about chicken. Being from the South, I eat a lot of chicken,” he said. “I wanted a sandwich that, when I ate that sandwich, I wanted to take another bite.”

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