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Tragic drowning of San Diego Marine leads to lawsuit for benefits April 28 Jennifer Briar pins Master Sgt. Jeff Briar at his most recent retirement ceremony. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Briar) The tragic 2019 drowning death of Marine Master Sgt. Jeff Briar off the San Diego coast has sparked a legal battle. Briar drowned attempting to rescue two children caught in the rip current near San Diego. At the time of his death Jeff Briar was a member of Headquarters Battalion, Tactical Training Exercise Control Group, in Twentynine Palms, California. While the two did not have a marriage lic...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A skull of the extinct horned crocodile from Madagascar (Voay robustus), which is part of the American Museum of Natural History's paleontology collection. view more  Credit: M. Ellison/©AMNH A study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History has resolved a long-standing controversy about an extinct "horned" crocodile that likely lived among humans in Madagascar. Based on ancient DNA, the research shows that the horned crocodile was closely related to "true" crocodiles, including the famous Nile crocodile, but on a separate branch of the crocodile fa...

After graduating in 2018 from Florida Coastal School of Law, Christopher Brochu worked in a small business litigation law firm until April 2019, when he struck out on his own and opened the Law Office of Christopher J. Brochu PLLC. What inspired you to become a lawyer? I always had an inclination that I wanted to help people. While in college, I interned for an assistant prosecutor named J. Scott Hucks, who let me attend hearings, interviews, trials and assist him with trial preparation. Although my law practice involves civil ligation, my experience with Mr. Hucks gave me an inside look at o...

Fossil helps researchers decipher evolution of caimans, alligators By (0) The Devil’s Graveyard Formation, a geologic formation in Far West Texas, contains fossils hailing from the latter half to the Eocene epoch. Photo by Chris Kirk Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Alligators and caimans are closely related, but their evolutionary history is complicated. And because the two groups look so similar, untangling their evolving relations across time and space has proven especially difficult for paleontologists. Advertisement Thankfully, a new fossil, described Friday in the journal PeerJ, has offered scienti...