Scientists have discovered how dinosaurs peed, pooed and had sex thanks to a 130 million year old fossil.
The findings from the fossil found in Liaoning, China over 20 years ago were detailed in a study.
The paper focuses on the cloaca or posterior orifice of the Psittacosaurus dinosaur.
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Scientists have discovered how dinosaurs peed, pooed, and had sex for the first time, thanks to 130 million-year-old Chinese fossil.
A study published in Current Biology detailed their findings on the discovery first made in Liaoning, China, over 20 years ago.
The paper is entitled, ‘A cloacal opening in a non-avian dinosaur.’ It focuses on the cloaca or posterior orifice of the Psittacosaurus dinosaur, which lived during the Cretaceous period that began around 145 million years ago and ended around 65 million years ago.
Lead author, Dr. Jakob Vinther, a paleontologist from the University of Bristol, told Insider: “I discovered the cloaca was preserved, that we could reconstruct it and that this would be interesting in 2016.
“We realized that nobody has ever described a dinosaur cloaca before, and very few people have looked at what a cloaca and cloacal opening looks like from the outside among living animals.
“The cloaca is used for everything: peeing, pooping, laying eggs, copulation. It’s basically the Swiss army knife of orifices, it can do everything but eating and breathing,” Dr. Vinther continued.
Cloaca in the fossil of the Psittacosaurus dinosaur.
Dr. Jakob Vinther
With Professor Diane Kelly from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an expert on cloaca and animal penises, and paleoartist Bob Nicholls, he created a 3D dinosaur model.
Dr. Vinther added: “The dinosaur is about the height of a Labrador, is covered in scaly skin, and has strange bristles coming off its tail. It’s a relative of some big, herbivorous dinosaurs like the Triceratops, which has horns and a frill. However, this fella has some horns on the side of its cheeks and kind of looks like ET. It’s quite cute.”
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Dr. Vinther said the sex of the dinosaur remains unknown since in animals with a cloaca, the penis is hidden inside and in this particular case, the external features don’t reveal much about that.
He added: “Dinosaurs are ancestors of birds. Birds are a group of dinosaurs that survived, so we had to look and see what they have.
“Because many groups of birds have lost their penises except for ducks, ostriches, and their relatives, birds do something called cloacal kissing where they put their cloacas together and vibrate really fast. So when birds mate, that’s typically what’s going on.”
Fossil of the Psittacosaurus dinosaur.
Dr. Jakob Vinther
Crocodiles are also dinosaur ancestors with penises. With that information, the scientists were able to extrapolate that if some of the deepest branches of birds in the tree of life have penises, then dinosaurs, such as the Psittacosaurus, probably have penises too.
Dr. Vinther said: “We can actually say for sure that they have a penis because the shape of this cloaca would not be particularly good for cloacal kissing. It’s a cloaca that is good for penetrative sex.”
“We could see its color patterns, which suggests this cloaca was used for visual singling, so that means that they would been showing off their cloaca like ‘Hey, hey, check this out!’ So one of the things that we have a little glimpse into here is a glorious past where dinosaurs were engaged in cloacal signaling to attract mates,” he continued.
The Psittacosaurus fossil is currently on display at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Legal sales of recreational marijuana in Arizona started on Friday, a once-unthinkable step in the former conservative stronghold that joins 14 other states that have broadly legalized pot.
The state Health Services Department on Friday announced it had approved 86 licenses in nine of the state’s 15 counties under provisions of the marijuana legalization measure passed by voters in November. Most of the licenses went to existing medical marijuana dispensaries that can start selling pot right away.
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“It’s an exciting step for those that want to participate in that program,” said Dr. Cara Christ, Arizona’s state health director, on Friday.
Under the terms of Proposition 207, people 21 and older can grow their own plants and legally possess up to an ounce (28 grams) of marijuana or a smaller quantity of “concentrates” such as hashish. Possession of between 1 ounce and 2.5 ounces (70 grams) is a petty offense carrying a maximum $300 fine.
The march toward decriminalization in the Sun Belt state was long. Approval of the legalization measure came four years after Arizona voters narrowly defeated a similar proposal, although medical marijuana has been legal in the state since 2010.
The initiative faced stiff opposition from Republican Gov. Doug Ducey and GOP leaders in the state Legislature, but 60% of the state’s voters in the November election approved it.
The vote on marijuana reflected larger trends at play during the historic election that saw Democrat Joe Biden flip the longtime Republican state where political giants include five-term conservative senator Barry Goldwater and the late GOP Sen. John McCain.
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Changing demographics, including a fast-growing Latino population and a flood of new residents, have made the state friendlier to Democrats.
The recreational pot measure was backed by advocates for the legal marijuana industry and criminal justice reform advocates who argued that the state’s harsh marijuana laws were out of step with the nation. Arizona was the only state in the country that still allowed a felony charge for first-time possession of small amounts of marijuana, although most cases were prosecuted as lower-level misdemeanors.
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The vast majority of the licenses issued Friday were in Maricopa County, the state’s largest county that’s home to Phoenix and its suburbs. Other counties with dispensaries now allowed to sell recreational pot are Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai and Yuma counties.
Voters in New Jersey, South Dakota and Montana also approved making possession of recreational marijuana legal last November.
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Arizona prosecutors dropped thousands of marijuana possession cases after the measure was approved. Possession in the state technically became legal when the election results were certified on Nov. 30 but there was no authorized way to purchase it without a medical marijuana card.
Voters in November dealt another blow to Republicans in control of the state’s power levers when they approved a new tax on high earners to boost education funding, a move that came after years of GOP tax cuts and the underfunding of public schools.
“He was quite wonderful, and my heart is broken into 400 million pieces,” Tabor said. The cancer persisted “for quite a while and he was doing the best he could and just couldn’t do it anymore,” she said.
Originally from New York, Sierra relocated to California, pursuing a film and stage career that ultimately spanned five decades. His most prominent roles were in sitcoms from the 1970s.
In NBC’s “Sanford and Son,” he was a series regular as the Sanfords’ neighbor Julio Fuentes. Later, he portrayed Miguel “Chano” Amanguale, a detective on ABC’s “Barney Miller.”
Sierra also had supporting or guest roles in “All in the Family,” “Hill Street Blues,” “Miami Vice,” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
Film credits included “Beneath the Planet of the Apes,” “Papillon,” and “The Towering Inferno.”
Tabor called Sierra “a brilliant actor” and said he was still receiving fan mail in the days since his death. His last credited acting role was in 2018. Tabor said he decided to retire because, while he still loved acting, he had difficulty remembering his lines.
Tabor said he was “the first person to help anybody that needed help and he cared about people very much.”
Sierra is also survived by two stepdaughters and a step-granddaughter, all of whom, Tabor said, “loved him and called him ‘Dad.'”
MARYSVILLE, Wash. — Steve Jahn stood on the top of his driveway watching the final ambulance pull out. The first took his wife of 32 years two days before. The second took his father-in-law. The third, his mother-in-law.
It was eight weeks after the first known U.S. case of COVID-19 was reported in his homeof Snohomish County, Washington.
He closed his eyes and prayed on the asphalt.
“The whole thing was surreal,” said Jahn, 62, who sells ambulances and fire trucks. “It was the one, two, three succession of having all three of them go in a matter of three days.”
For his wife, Peggy Jahn, 62, memories of that day are blurry – except for one. In the middle of the night, hours after she was rolled into a small isolation room at Providence Regional Medical Center, a doctor came in to deliver the news.
“You’re not going to survive this,” Peggy recalled him saying. “Call your family. Let your family know that you’re not going to make it.”
Snohomish County natives Steve and Peggy Jahn met on a blind date in 1988. He was a single dad raising his son while working as a volunteer firefighter and emergency vehicles salesman. She was working for a marketing company in downtown Seattle.
“I found myself saying, ‘I think I’m in love with you,’ like a few weeks down the road,” Steve said last week, as he sat clutching Peggy’s knee and casting her a sidelong grin on their back patio. “We think it was inspired from above, to be honest with you, because there’s no other logical explanation for it, as is her recovery.”
They barely spoke on their first date, but they felt the chemistry instantly. Steve invited Peggy over with a couple of friends and cooked hamburgers before taking her out to see “Die Hard.” Within six months, they were married.
Peggy and Steve Jahn were married on Jan. 21, 1989, in Edmonds, Washington. Peggy’s brothers walked her down the aisle to the theme song of the 1950s sitcom ‘Leave It to Beaver’ played on a harp. Peggy and Steve Jahn were married on Jan. 21, 1989, in Edmonds, Washington. Peggy’s brothers walked her down the aisle to the theme song of the 1950s sitcom ‘Leave It to Beaver’ played on a harp. Peggy and Steve Jahn were married on Jan. 21, 1989, in Edmonds, Washington. Peggy’s brothers walked her down the aisle to the theme song of the 1950s sitcom ‘Leave It to Beaver’ played on a harp.
Peggy and Steve raised four kids together in Steve’s childhood home on the Tulalip Tribes Reservation, overlooking Tulalip Bay in Snohomish County, just north of Seattle. Four years ago, they moved into a house further inland, in Marysville, so that Peggy’s 95-year-old mom, Lillian Wattum, and her husband, Howard Stiles, 90, could move in with them.
When their local hospital admitted the first known U.S. coronavirus patient on Jan. 20, 2020, Peggy and Steve read about it in the newspaper. It was “weird,” Steve said.
Peggy fell sick in early March after a long day of running errands. She went to bed that night, exhausted, and didn’t leave for 10 days. When Steve returned from a business trip, they scheduled a telehealth appointment for Peggy, and the doctor said she likely had the flu.
By March 11, Peggy still wasn’t better, and Howard was feeling ill, too.
“Of course, there was more news about the virus at that point, so I took him up to a nearby clinic and we had him tested,” Steve said. “On Friday the 13th of all days, his test came back positive for COVID. At that point, I’m like, oh my gosh, this seems to be the real deal.”
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After a year of COVID-19, that left Snohomish County resident Peggy Jahn on a ventilator for 25 days, she was able to come home to her family.
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Quarantined at home with Steve and her parents, Peggy had a second telehealth appointment. This time, doctors advised her to come in. She wanted to take a shower before heading to the hospital, but she never made it to the bathroom. The room turned blurry: all she could see was grey.
Steve watched in horror as Peggy bent over and gasped for breath. He shifted into first responder mode and called 911.
By the time staff took her vitals at the hospital, Peggy’s oxygen levels were dangerously low. It was late that night when the pulmonologist told her she wasn’t going to make it.
“It didn’t register with me. I tried calling my daughter, but she didn’t have her phone on. And I got a hold of my son, but he was trying to be positive,” Peggy said. “I texted my friends, the ones that I wanted to let know. I said, ‘I love you. I’m not supposed to survive this.'”
Steve got a call, then a selfie of Peggy with her oxygen mask on, “looking like death on the edge.” The two decided she would go on a ventilator that day, March 15.
“We texted pretty much non-stop until 6:59 a.m., and that’s when she said I’m in ICU now and they’re going to vent, and then, boom,” Steve said. “That was the last communication I had with her until nearly the first week of April.”
As the medical staff prepared to sedate Peggy to intubate her, she recalls hearing two final words before weeks of silence: “Let’s go.”
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As the sun rose that interminable day on March 15, Howard took a turn for the worse. His oxygen levels were starting to drop, and he was having greater difficulty breathing. Steve called for the ambulance again and the same archaic, “ratty-old bone box came,” he said.
Lillian had a low-grade fever. When Peggy’s two brothers arrived, the group decided Lillian might as well go to the hospital, too, due to her age. With his brother-in-laws, their wives and kids, Steve prayed on the driveway.
“We just prayed for a miracle,” he said. “Oddly enough, within four or five hours, the hospital called and said, hey, you need to come and get your mother-in-law, she’s not sick enough to stay here.”
Lillian Wattum, 95, stands with her husband, Howard Stiles, 90, in their home in Marysville, Washington, on Jan. 13, 2021. “I’m a cougar because he’s… Lillian Wattum, 95, stands with her husband, Howard Stiles, 90, in their home in Marysville, Washington, on Jan. 13, 2021. “I’m a cougar because he’s four years younger than me,” Lillian said with a chuckle. They were married 10 years ago.Grace Hauck, USA TODAY
Steve picked Lillian up at the hospital that evening. Isolated and missing their partners, the pair clung to one another, and to their community. As word spread of the family’s situation, members of their church began to leave food at the door, and some gathered to sing hymns in the backyard. Steve opened the sliding glass door and sang along from a distance as Lillian sat with her eyes closed and hands raised.
“It was one of the most blessed yet hardest times of my entire life,” Steve said.
Meanwhile, Steve was calling the hospital several times a day. He wanted to know if Peggy or Howard was eligible to receive remdesivir, an antiviral drug originally developed to treat Ebola. Howard received the treatment and was discharged March 25, after 11 days in the hospital. Peggy was too sick to get the drug through the trial but finally received it through compassionate use.
As Peggy remained in the hospital, the youngest kids, Peter, 30, and Heidi, 29, came to stay with their dad. They kept friends and relatives – including some as far as Norway – updated on Peggy’s situation through a Facebook page, where the group shared photos, messages and music.
Steve tried to stay busy. He did laundry, swept, vacuumed, mopped, mopped again. When his kids put down their cups, he’d place them in the dishwasher before they were even done with them.
Steve Jahn
And I just looked up and said, God, either give her back or take her.
“They’d say, ‘dad!’ And I’d say, I have to maintain some order. It’s all I can do,” Steve said. “I’ve run a company. I’ve been a fire chief. I’m used to making decisions and making stuff happen. And I couldn’t do anything, and that was the hardest thing.”
Steve couldn’t bring himself to enter his bedroom. Most nights he slept on a downstairs recliner, next to the home phone, staring at it before he went to sleep around 2 a.m.
“It was like a hand grenade with the pin pulled, and I’m just waiting for it to explode,” he said. “I felt if that house phone rang … I was going to get the news that I didn’t want to get. So every morning I’d say ‘thank you, God,’ that phone didn’t ring last night.”
Steve began wearing Peggy’s rings on a gold chain, clutching them like rosary beads. One night, in late March, he glanced in the mirror and saw the rings on his chest.
“I just kind of lost it. That’s the first time I actually lost it,” Steve said. “And I just looked up and said, God, either give her back or take her.”
Days later, the grenade exploded.
Two doctors were on the phone, asking Steve to come in to discuss “Peggy’s transition.” Steve was escorted up to the sixth floor of the hospital on April 6.
The doctors stopped Steve just outside Peggy’s room. They had placed a trach in her throat, and she was going to need a feeding tube. She may never again be the Peggy he knew, they told him: Did he want to put her through that?
Steve got 10 minutes in the room with Peggy. He knelt down beside her bed. “Hey, honey, I’m here. I’m here,” he said. Her eyes moved just a hint, and Steve walked around the other side of her bed.
“She slowly turned her head my way. So I’m like OK, she’s responding. She hears us,” he said.
Steve walked out of the room knowing that Peggy was going to make it. That night, he got a call from a nurse telling him that Peggy had wiggled her toes on command, twice.
“That was the first thing I remember was wiggling my toes,” Peggy said.
It was the beginning of her recovery. And the start of her delirium.
Peggy finally came off the ventilator on April 8, after 25 days.
A few days later, Steve received a FaceTime call around 3 a.m. It was Peggy. She couldn’t speak with the trach in her throat, but she was flailing around and trying to communicate something. Steve dialed the hospital.
“I’m like, good gosh, I’m going to see her die on FaceTime in the hospital,” he said.
A nurse finally rushed into the room and checked Peggy’s vitals. Everything was normal, but Peggy was trying to mouth words. She handed Peggy a dry erase board.
“So she writes and the nurse holds it up: ‘Come get me.’ And I’m like, oh, honey, I wish I could come get you,” Steve said.
Doctors say it’s common to experience delirium in the ICU. But the sensation was “freaky weird,” Peggy said.
She spoke to her family again for the first time the day after Easter, Peter’s 30th birthday, babbling on about how her phone had been hijacked and the nurses were plotting against her.
Peggy Jahn
I don’t remember much. I just remember a mom has to talk to their kid on their birthday, and I missed his birthday.
“I don’t remember much,” Peggy said. “I just remember a mom has to talk to their kid on their birthday, and I missed his birthday.”
Peggy spent 42 days in the hospital. She lost her hair and had to learn to walk again after losing muscle while in paralysis on the ventilator.The first time she worked with physical therapists, Peggy could barely lift her toes. Before she was discharged, she had to walk 25 steps.
Her goal, Peggy told the physical therapists, was to be able to hold a weed wacker and do her own yard work again. But the physical therapists couldn’t promise her that, or that she’d ever drive again.
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Steve picked Peggy up from the hospital April 24. On the drive home, Steve showed Peggy the empty hotel parking lots and barren malls. When she had gone to bed in her room in early March, life was normal. She emerged from the hospital to what Steve called “the apocalypse.”
As the two pulled into the driveway, Peggy saw posters of support lining both sides of the asphalt. “It was very overwhelming,” she said.
Friends gather in Marysville to show signs of support for Peggy Jahn while she was at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington.Provided by Steve Jahn
As Peggy continues her recovery at home, she’s walking. She’s weed wacking. She’s remodeling the bayside home where she and Steve raised their children. Last week, Peggy hopped in the car and drove the 20 minutes out to the house.
Days after a historic windstorm wiped out power to the county, the water was still. Peggy roamed the house, ripping up carpet and sharing memories. She propped up a ladder in her daughter’s old room and began covering the chipped paint with a fresh coat.
Steve stood on the back deck, watching two seals bobbing in the water and pointing to two bald eagles that had landed in their tree. He’s still processing the trauma of what happened. After 20 years in the fire department, he never had PTSD. Now he does.
Steve said the experience, as stressful as it was, has helped him break down some walls with his kids that he didn’t even know were there. For Peggy, her kids are finally answering her phone calls.
Peggy Jahn makes it up the 16 steps to the upper floor of her home in Marysville, Washington. “I’m not going to stop,” Peggy said last week. “Now, I’m doing up to 10,000 steps a day because I can. Because I can. It’s a gift I’ve been given back.” Peggy Jahn makes it up the 16 steps to the upper floor of her home in Marysville, Washington. “I’m not going to stop,” Peggy said last week. “Now, I’m doing up to 10,000 steps a day because I can. Because I can. It’s a gift I’ve been given back.” Peggy Jahn makes it up the 16 steps to the upper floor of her home in Marysville, Washington. “I’m not going to stop,” Peggy said last week. “Now, I’m doing up to 10,000 steps a day because I can. Because I can. It’s a gift I’ve been given back.” Courtesy of the Jahn family
“I think the kids appreciate mom a whole lot more,” she said with a wink. “I can get away with a lot more.”
This week, as staff at Providence Regional Medical Center paused and the nation observed a moment of silence for the 400,000 souls lost to COVID-19 in the U.S., Peggy and Steve celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary. On Sunday, they’re renewing their vows outside their church.
Steve had re-proposed on April 15, as Peggy was leaving the ICU after 32 days.
Her hand shook as she held it up to her face in her hospital bed.
In their living room 15 miles away, Steve got down on one knee, dressed in a T-shirt and pajama pants.
“I clearly feel like I’ve been given a second chance to share what’s already been an amazing 31 years,” he said into his phone. “I just want to say, Peggy Jahn, would you remarry me at your earliest convenience?”
Peggy cracked a smile: “Come and get me.”
Reach reporter Grace Hauck at ghauck@usatoday.com or on Twitter at @grace_hauck.
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After shooting the lights out on the opening night of the season, RJ Barrett stumbled into some rough patches, the second of which coincided with the midst of a losing streak.
But despite the Knicks had their three-game winning streak snapped Friday night against the Kings in Sacramento, Calif., Barrett has rediscovered his touch and was making a major impact in the process.
“We’re just trying to work hard and grind every day,” Barrett said after scoring a career-high 28 points on 10-for-17 shooting in Thursday’s win over the Warriors. “That’s really what we’re trying to do. We’re really focused. We’ve been giving it our all and we’re going to continue to do that throughout the season.”
In Friday’s 103-94 loss to the Kings, Barrett had 21 points on 8-for-17 shooting — including going 2-for-2 from 3. Over his past five games entering Friday, Barrett had averaged 21.8 points — on 51.4 percent shooting and 38.9 percent from deep — to go with 6.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists. In the 10 games before that stretch, he was shooting just 33.1 percent from the floor and 12.8 percent from beyond the arc — numbers that were boosted by two games in the middle in which the lefty briefly got hot and shot 18 of 34 from the floor and 5-for-10 from three.
“I think RJ’s played really well over I’d say like the last five or six games, playing at a really high level,” coach Tom Thibodeau said. “He started off the season where he had a big opening night and I think teams came after him pretty good. But he’s adjusting and even during the stretch where he wasn’t shooting particularly well, he was rebounding great and he was playmaking.
Frank Ntilikina missed his 13th consecutive game since suffering a sprained right knee Dec. 29. Austin Rivers also was out for a second straight night with a sore right Achilles. … Sunday’s game in Portland has been switched from 9 p.m. Eastern time to 10 p.m.
Dustin Diamond‘s cancer diagnosis has been hard for him to deal with emotionally … and it has him questioning how this happened to him.
The “Saved by the Bell” star’s rep tells TMZ … Dustin’s struggling to come to terms with having the type of lung cancer he has — stage 4 small cell carcinoma — because it’s normally caused by smoking, and he’s never been a smoker.
So, we’re told Dustin can’t help but wonder if his cancer is the result of his frequent work travel over the past 20 years.
The rep says Dustin’s worked all over the country on film sets and at comedy clubs for meet-and-greets … and sometimes had to stay in pretty questionable hotels and motels, because there were no other options.
We’re told Dustin believes some of these spots might have had mold or asbestos … which he could have breathed in, causing his cancer.
As we reported … Dustin just completed his first round of chemo at a Florida hospital, and will start physical therapy soon while he awaits the second round of treatment.
We’re told his doctors have not determined what caused his cancer, but as we reported … he does have a history of it in his family. His mother died of breast cancer.
Dustin’s rep says they are awaiting more test results, and hoping to get some answers.
When Emma Roberts‘ baby boy arrived he was brought into this world by a doctor who did the same for Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner‘s kids.
Emma and actor Garrett Hedlund‘s son, Rhodes Robert Hedlund, was delivered by Dr. Thais Aliabadi … according to the birth certificate, which also shows he arrived at 5:07 PM on December 27.
The birth certificate, obtained by TMZ, says Dr. Aliabadi delivered Rhodes on familiar turf … L.A.’s famed Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. We say it’s familiar because it’s the same place where Stormi Webster was born.
You’ll recall … Dr. A flew from L.A. to Ohio to deliver True Thompson for Khloe and Tristan.
TMZ broke the story … Rhodes weighed in right around 9 lbs on the day he was born. It’s Emma and Garrett’s first child. During her pregnancy … Emma wasn’t shy about showing off her baby bump, as she was seen out and about town frequently.
A couple weeks after giving birth … Emma posted a pic of her holding her baby boy with the caption, “Thank you 2020 for getting one thing right. Our bright light Rhodes Robert Hedlund.”
Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler are keeping things friendly.
The famous pair announced in April 2020 that they had decided to go their separate ways after “10 years together.”
Now, nearly nine months after the announcement, Cavallari, 34, and Cutler, 37, are proving they can still be pals.
The two both took to Instagram on Friday night to share identical posts.
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In the pic, the former reality star cuddled up to the former NFL quarterback as they both wore small smirks.
“The world is full of users,” read their shared caption. “10 years. Can’t break that.”
Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari posed for a photo together almost nine months after announcing their split. (Getty Images)
The posts had followers wondering whether the cozy pic had a larger meaning.
“Are you guys not DUNZO?!” asked a follower.
“Alright sister break it down so you’re back on?” wrote another. “Bye bye comedian?”
A third added: “So we’re married or….”
Others felt that there wasn’t much subtext to the post, but rather that it served as a signifier of their ability to still work together.
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“I think he’s saying they’re a team forever – after 10 years together and 3 kids,” one Instagram user wrote. “Not that they’re back together romantically.”
“Calm people,” urged another. “They are being great parents.”
Yet another echoed: “It means they are going to co-parent like rockstars…doubt they are back together. (…but secretly hopeful?)”
Others seemed confused altogether.
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“And you get the award for most confusing caption,” a fan commented.
“Gotta crack this code,” wrote another.
Reps for the pair did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
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The “Laguna Beach” alum has been very open about her experience with divorce and revealed last year that she considered splitting from the athlete “every single day for over two years.”
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Various rumors of relationships have swirled over the last few months, with the star having been spotted giving a smooch to comedian Jeff Dye, and later had to shut down rumors of a relationship between herself and “Southern Charm” actor Austen Kroll.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s health minister, who has faced criticism for consuming and endorsing a herbal syrup made by a sorcerer, has tested positive for COVID-19.
A Health Ministry official on Saturday confirmed that Pavithra Wanniarachchi became the highest-ranking official to be infected with the virus. She and her immediate contacts have been asked to self-quarantine.
Doctors have said there is no scientific basis for the syrup as remedy for the coronavirus. It’s said to contain honey and nutmeg.
Thousands of people gathered in long queues in December in the town of Kegalle, northeast of the capital Colombo, to obtain the syrup, just days after Wanniarachchi and several other government officials publicly consumed it.
The maker of the syrup said he got the formula through his divine powers. In local media, he claimed the Hindu goddess Kaali appeared to him in a dream and gave the recipe to save humanity from the coronavirus.
Sri Lankans are used to taking both the regular medicine and indigenous alternative drugs to cure ailments.
Meanwhile on Saturday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced that Sri Lanka will receive the first stock of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India on Jan. 27.
He said India is giving this stock free of charge and his government is making arrangements to purchase more vaccines from India, China and Russia.
On Friday, Sri Lanka approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine amid warnings from doctors that front-line health workers should be quickly inoculated to prevent the medical system from collapsing. The vaccine was the first to be approved for emergency use in Sri Lanka.
The Health Ministry says the inoculation will begin by mid-February.
Sri Lanka has witnessed a fresh outbreak of the disease in October when two clusters — one centered on a garment factory and the other on the main fish market — emerged in Colombo and its suburbs.
Sri Lanka has reported 52,964 cases with 278 fatalities.
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This story has been corrected to show that the town where people lined up for the syrup was Kegalle.
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The frozen desert serves as a scientific haven for more than 1,000 researchers around the year, who monitor climate change and study Earth’s history. Its barren landscape gives them access to an unspoilt world, where they can complete their research, despite temperatures dropping to as low as -90C. The conditions in parts of the region are so harsh that scientists rarely visit them, instead using satellite data to complete their work.
However, the Science Channel revealed in its ‘What on Earth?’ series how one image – appearing to show something had crash-landed – left experts scratching their heads.
Aviation journalist Joe Pappalardo said: “To me, it looks like something landed there extremely quickly and skated to a halt.
“Maybe something had crashed.
“When you think about something crashing in that part of the world you think about the worst air disaster in New Zealand’s history.”
The series detailed the devastating events of the Mount Erebus disaster.
The narrator said: “The crash theory gains traction when investigators discover the image was taken close to the site of the world’s most catastrophic aviation accidents.
“At 7.21am on November 28, 1979, Air New Zealand flight 901 takes off from Auckland Airport on a sightseeing tour of Antarctica.
“The crew report clear weather and good visibility.
“But as the plane nears Mount Erebus a strange and terrifying optical illusion known as a whiteout deceives the two pilots.”
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“But if we look at this object over here, this little rock shows the shadow – it is an elevated feature.”
And the narrator detailed how this theory was soon supported by NASA.
He added in 2017: “The shadow indicates it not a depression in the ice, but something rising above it.
“NASA scientists Dr Kelly Brunt travels to the remote feature.
“She finds a seven-mile-long wall of jagged ice protruding from the frozen seas of McMurdo Sound.
“It is a rare type of glacier feature created by millions of tonnes of ice flowing from the base of Mount Erebus into the frozen seas.”
