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Japanese automotive giant Toyota Motor Corporation has offered promotion to more foreigners to senior posts. Europe chief Didier Leroy has been appointed executive vice president by the world's biggest automaker.

Leroy will be one of six executive vice presidents (EVP) at Toyota. Julie Hamp, a senior official at Toyota Motor North America will be made a managing officer and will also become first female executive.

An African-American general counsel in North America, Christopher Reynolds is also going to hold the post of a managing officer. Promotion of Hamp marks a step in Japanese automaker's move to reduce the gender gap in the workplace. Corporate Japan has been asked to appoint women to 30% of top jobs by 2020.

According to reports, population of monarch butterfly has declined by more than 90% during the last two decades. Environmentalists have been seeking protection for the black-and-orange insect under the Endangered Species Act. According to the environmentalists, to save the population of monarch butterfly, it is necessary to restore milkweed habitat. The environmentalists said that restoring milkweed habitat will also help other insects like honey bees, whose numbers have decreased by over 4 million beehives in last about seven decades.

Lincoln Brower, ecologist at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, said, “My feeling is if the monarch goes, it is like the canary in the coalmine”.

Engineers in Texas have made a cockroach robot that could collect information from places where humans could not go. According to reports, the new tiny robot could be the most revolting creation of a robot from a lab.

The robot, robo-roach includes a live cockroach with a small computer that has been wired into the insect’s nervous system. After enabling the robot, a human can control the tiny robot. Hong Liang, a researcher at Texas A&M University and lead researcher, said that the insect could carry a tiny video camera, sensors and microphones. According to the researcher, the robo-roach could collect information from places where humans would rather not go.

Researchers have found that the weight of ‘Sophie’ the Stegosaurus was around 1,560kg that is equivalent to a large cow, a Beluga whale or a small caravan. Sophie used to live 150 million years ago during the Late Jurassic period.

London's Natural History Museum unveiled Sophie, in December 2014, becoming the latest fossil in its collection.

Sophie was discovered in 2003 at the Red Canyon Ranch in Wyoming, United States and is one of the most complete Stegosaurus fossils that are found ever and are made up of 360 bones.

Researchers at the Natural History Museum along with a UK-based team analyzed the dinosaur. The UK-based team individual digitally scanned each of her bones.

The UK has experienced a partial solar eclipse, due to which it is expected that by the end of this month, darkness may take over Ashbourne during the day for more than a couple of hours. The event will happen on just before 8.30am on Friday, 20th of March.

Such a phenomenon takes place when the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth. The moon will not cover the disc of Sun fully, but around 90% of the Sun will be blocked out by the Moon as it passes by.

Patrick Poitevin, an astronomer from Ashbourne explained that there are three kinds of solar eclipse – total, partial and annular.

Screen Ran has recently shared seven new dinosaurs that audiences will be able to see in the Jurassic World film. Makers of the movie said that although these dinosaurs might appear to be harmless, but actually they are no pushovers.

The Jurassic World that will most probably hit the screens on June 12, 2015 is the story of a Jurassic Theme Park whose genetically modified dinosaur publicity stunt goes horribly wrong, as the creature escapes.

The seven new dinosaurs of the Jurassic World film include the Metriacanthosaurus, the Edmontosaurus, the Dimorphodon, the Baryonyx, the Pteranodon, the Suchomimus, and the Microceratus.