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Terrifying 6ft-long creature with bone crushing jaws roamed Iowa 340 million years ago
While T.rex is often referred to as the ‘King of the Dinosaurs’, a new study has revealed that an equally ferocious predator roamed the Earth millions of years earlier.
Scientists from The Field Museum in Chicago have studied the remains of Whatcheeria – a six foot long lake dwelling creature that roamed Iowa 340 million years ago.
Whatcheeria had razor sharp teeth and bone crushing jaws that could snap animals in half, according to the researchers.
‘It probably would have spent a lot of time near the bottoms of rivers and lakes, lunging out and eating whatever it liked,’ said Ben Otoo, co-author of the study. ‘You definitely could call this thing “the T. rex of its time”.’
Scientists from The Field Museum in Chicago have studied the remains of Whatcheeria – a six foot long lake dwelling creature that roamed Iowa 340 million years ago
To date, around 350 Whatcheeria specimens have been discovered, which are all now housed at the Field Museum.
In their new study, the team set out to understand how the creature grew so big so quickly.
‘If you saw Whatcheeria in life, it would probably look like a big crocodile-shaped salamander, with a narrow head and lots of teeth,’ said Mr Otoo.
‘If it really curled up, probably to an uncomfortable extent, it could fit in your bathtub, but neither you nor it would want it to be there.’
Whatcheeria lived underwater and was a ‘stem tetrapod’ – an early four-legged creature that’s part of the same lineage as humans.
‘Whatcheeria is more closely related to living tetrapods like amphibians and reptiles and mammals than it is to anything else, but it falls outside of those modern groups,’ said Ken Angielczyk, co-author of the study.
‘That means that it can help us learn about how tetrapods, including us, evolved.’
The team sifted through the specimens at the Field Museum to study Whatcheeria at different phases of its life and track its growth.
Whatcheeria had razor sharp teeth and bone crushing jaws that could snap animals in half, according to the researchers
To date, around 350 Whatcheeria specimens have been discovered, which are all now housed at the Field Museum. Pictured: co-author Ken Angielczyk with a drawer of Whatcheeria specimens behind the scenes at the Field Museum
‘Examining these fossils is like reading a storybook, and we are trying to read as many chapters as possible by looking at how juveniles grow building up to adulthood,’ said Professor Megan Whitney, lead author of the study.
‘Because of where Whatcheeria sits in the early tetrapod family tree, we wanted to target this animal and look at its storybook at different stages of life.’
The team took thin slices from thigh bones and studied them under a microscope.
‘By examining how thick the growth rings are over the course of an animal’s life, you can figure out if the animal’s growing continuously throughout its lifetime, perhaps with some temporary interruptions, or basically growing to an adult size, then stopping,’ Mr Otoo explained.
The researchers expected to find that Whatcheeria showed slow and steady growth, much like today’s reptiles and amphibians.
However, the thigh bone samples revealed that the creature grew rapidly when it was young, before levelling off over time.
‘If you’re going to be a top predator, a very large animal, it can be a competitive advantage to get big quickly as it makes it easier to hunt other animals, and harder for other predators to hunt you,’ said Stephanie Pierce, co-author of the study.
The researchers expected to find that Whatcheeria showed slow and steady growth, much like today’s reptiles and amphibians. Pictured: co-author Ben Otoo standing by a life-size illustration of a large Whatcheeria specimen at the Field Museum
The thigh bone samples revealed that the creature grew rapidly when it was young, before levelling off over time
‘It can also be a beneficial survival strategy when living in unpredictable environments, such as the lake system Whatcheeria inhabited, which went through seasonal dying periods.’
The researchers hope the findings will shed light on the evolution of early tetrapods.
‘Evolution is about trying out different lifestyles and combinations of features,’ Dr Angielczyk added.
‘And so you get an animal like Whatcheeria that’s an early tetrapod, but it’s also a pretty fast-growing one. It’s a really big one for its time.
‘It has this weird skeleton that’s potentially letting it do some things that some of its contemporaries weren’t.
‘It’s an experiment in how to be a big predator, and it shows how diverse life on Earth was and still is.’
Search underway for swimmer who jumped from ‘Jaws’ bridge on Martha’s Vineyard
A massive search is underway for a missing swimmer after a group of people jumped off the “Jaws” bridge on Martha’s Vineyard late Sunday night, officials said.
A total of four people went into the water in Edgartown around 11:20 p.m., according to the Coast Guard. Two of the swimmers were able to make it to shore.
As of Monday morning, one male swimmer had not been located. In a statement, Massachusetts State Police said, “The males did not surface after jumping.”
One of the missing swimmers from overnight was recovered this morning.
Coast Guard crews from Woods Hole and Air Station Cape Cod are assisting local fire and police officials with the search.
The American Legion Memorial Bridge, known for its appearance in the iconic 1975 thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, is located on Beach Road. It connects Edgartown and Oak Bluffs.
A young man who jumped from the bridge last summer had to be airlifted to the hospital after suffering a serious neck injury, the Martha’s Vineyard Times reported. Authorities told the news outlet that the man thought he was jumping from a section of the bridge that spans a deeper channel.
There were no additional details immediately available.
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‘Like a scene out of Jaws’: British boy attacked by sharks in Bahamas | Bahamas
An eight-year-old British boy has been attacked by sharks while on holiday in the Bahamas.
Finley Downer was surrounded by three nurse sharks while swimming in a lagoon last week, his family said, before he was pulled to safety after suffering bites on both legs.
Finley was then taken to a clinic in the capital, Nassau, where he underwent a three-hour operation, according to PA Media.
Finley’s father, Michael Downer, 44, told the Sun: “It was like a scene out of Jaws,” adding that his son could have been killed.
Michael had taken the family, including Finley and his sisters Lily, nine, and Emily, 12, on a five-island tour when the attack took place at Compass Cay. The family told the paper they joined a crowd of people swimming among nurse sharks in the lagoon.
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Describing the scene, his father recalled there was so much blood as his son said to him: “Dad, I don’t want to die.” The family has since returned home to Kettering, Northamptonshire, where Finley is recovering.
Tour guide operator Exuma Escapes told the Sun the family entered a lagoon not used on their tour, without a guide. They described nurse sharks as docile bottom-feeders, “unless handled incorrectly”.
Exuma Escapes has been approached for comment.
We Finally Know How The Nightmarish Bloodworm Grows Fangs Made of Metal
Bloodworms are not for the faint-hearted. These fleshy-looking marine tubes might look harmless from a distance, but don’t be deceived.
Bloodworms (aka ‘bristle worms’ of the genus Glycera) are carnivores that burrow deep into the mud along the seabed, emerging to grasp prey and competitors in their fearsome jaws that are partially composed of copper – and laced with paralyzing venom.
Even scientists who study these creatures for a living do not speak highly of bloodworms.
“These are very disagreeable worms in that they are ill-tempered and easily provoked,” says biochemist Herbert Waite from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
“When they encounter another worm, they usually fight using their copper jaws as weapons.”
Close-up of a bloodworm fang. (Herbert Waite/CC BY-SA)
In a new study – led by first author William Wonderly, a graduate student in the Waite Lab – researchers investigated how the bloodworm species Glycera dibranchiata acquires the copper for its jaw, which makes up about 10 percent of the jaw’s overall structure, with the rest consisting of protein and melanin.
It’s previously been noted that the combination of copper and melanin in bloodworm jaws gives the fangs considerable abrasion resistance, which helps the teeth last for the animal’s lifespan of up to around five years.
In the new research, the team dissected bloodworms, analyzed the jaw tissue, and studied cultured cells in vitro, identifying a structural protein that helps these different chemical components come together so successfully.
The protein in question – called multi-tasking protein (MTP) – is so effective, it could help point the way to new material-manufacturing processes, the researchers suggest.
“We never expected protein with such a simple composition, that is, mostly glycine and histidine, to perform this many functions and unrelated activities,” says Waite.
“These materials could be road signs for how to make and engineer better consumer materials.”
According to the researchers, MTP performs numerous chemical roles in the end-to-end jaw production process.
These include binding copper (which is harvested from marine sediment), catalyzing melanin formation, and acting as an organizer and fabricator, assembling the resulting blend of protein, copper, and melanin that make up the jaws in the bloodworm’s proboscis.
It’s a formidable trick, the researchers say, and one which would take a lot of work and different equipment to replicate in a laboratory setting, using conventional equipment.
If we can figure out how to replicate it, though – somehow harnessing natural MTP or mimicking similar chemical functionalities – it could be a big step forward in materials science.
“The concerted activities of MTP in the construction of Glycera jaw architecture present a compelling opportunity to rethink the design of processing technologies needed for high-performance and sustainable composite and blended polymeric materials,” the researchers write in their paper.
“The combination of chemical simplicity and functional versatility in MTP holds tremendous potential for bio-inspired and natural materials processing.”
It’s amazing to think that all this ingenuity somehow evolved inside the mouth of a bloodworm. Maybe they’re not so bad after all.
“You’ve got a little worm that’s making a jaw that’s as hard and stiff as bronze, and some ceramics as well,” Waite told New Scientist. “And they’re doing this autonomically.”
The findings are reported in Matter.
ARMLESS dinosaur roamed Argentina 70 million years ago and could take down prey with its huge jaws
An armless dinosaur may not sound too scary, but a new species that roamed Argentina 70 million years ago was likely a skilled predator – despite having front limbs even shorter than T.Rex.
The fossilised remains of the new species, named Guemesia ochoai, were discovered in Argentina by researchers from the Natural History Museum in London.
Their analysis suggests that Geumesia ochoai was a species of abelisaur – a clade of dinosaurs with tiny front limbs that had to rely on their powerful heads and jaws to capture prey.
Professor Anjali Goswami, Research Leader at the Museum and co-author of the study, said: ‘This new dinosaur is quite unusual for its kind.
‘It has several key characteristics that suggest that is a new species, providing important new information about an area of the world which we don’t know a lot about.’
An armless dinosaur may not sound too scary, but a new species that roamed Argentina 70 million years ago was likely a skilled predator – despite having front limbs even shorter than T.Rex (artist’s impression)
Abelisauridae were a striking family of theropod dinosaurs averaging 16 to 30 feet long that prowled mainly in Patagonia and other areas of the ancient southern supercontinent Gondwana.
Gondwana is recognised today as Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Peninsula.
While abelisaurids resembled T-Rex in general appearance with tiny stubby arms, they had unusually short, deep skulls which often bore crests, bumps, and horns.
Previous research suggests that abelisaurids fed on large dinosaurs such as titanosaurs, despite having tiny arms that were ‘effectively useless.’
Instead, the dinosaurs relied on their powerful heads and jaws to capture unsuspecting prey.
Abelisaurid fossils have previously been found in rocks across Africa, South America, India and Europe, with 35 species already described from Argentina.
However, while most of these 35 species are from Patagonia, in the south of Argentina, the new species was discovered in the Los Blanquitos Formation near Amblayo, in the north of Argentina.
‘The dinosaurs that live in this region were quite different from those in other parts of Argentina, supporting the idea of distinct provinces in the Cretaceous of South America,’ Professor Goswami said.
While most abelisaurids had ‘relatively small’ braincases, Guemesia ochoai’s skull was found to be 70 per cent smaller than its relatives.
The researchers are unclear whether this was because the new specimen was a juvenile, or if all members of the species had small skulls.
The new species was discovered in the Los Blanquitos Formation near Amblayo, in the north of Argentina
Abelisaurid fossils have previously been found in rocks across Africa, South America, India and Europe, with 35 species already described from Argentina. However, while most of these 35 species are from Patagonia, in the south of Argentina, the new species was discovered in the Los Blanquitos Formation near Amblayo, in the north of Argentina
The front of its skull was found to contain rows of small holes that may have helped the animal to stay cool, with blood pumped into the thin skin at the front of the head to release heat.
Meanwhile, unlike other abelisaurid species, this new species was found to lack horns.
According to the team, this suggests the new species was either near the bottom of the family tree, or closely related to the ancestors of the group.
While abelisaurids resembled T-Rex in general appearance with tiny stubby arms, they had unusually short, deep skulls which often bore crests, bumps, and horns
The team now hopes to uncover more specimans of Guemesia ochoai and its relatives to understand more about life in ancient Argentina.
Professor Goswami added: ‘Understanding huge global events like a mass extinction requires global datasets, but there are lots of parts of the world that have not been studied in detail, and tonnes of fossils remaining to be discovered.
‘We left some exciting fossils in the ground on our last trip, not knowing that it would be years before we could get back to our field sites.
‘Now we are hoping that it won’t be too much longer before we can finish digging them up and discovering many more species from this unique fauna.’
Torrei Hart’s #LatePost Leaves Fans’ Jaws on the Floor
Torrei Hart is bringing sexy back.
Hart recently posted an Instagram photo of her getting cute for Santa Claus. She was pictured rocking a pair of pink polka-dot matching pajamas and gray socks, along with a beautiful and bright smile. The matching pajamas were a set of a long-sleeved top and a snug pair of shorts.
She stood in front of a decorated Christmas tree with a flirty pose of her running her fingers through her hair with one hand while the other held a drink. She asked, “It’s still Christmas right? #latepost,” in the caption of the Dec. 28 upload.
Fans couldn’t help but comment on the actress’ dashing looks. She received many compliments like “Looking like the best gift under the treeeeeeeeee cccuuutteeeeee,” and “It’s getting hot in here…”
But some took it upon themselves to not only mention but also tag her ex-husband, famed comedian Kevin Hart. One person said, “Kevin couldn’t handle that sexiness” and another wrote, “@kevinhart4real might of F-ck up…”
Kevin and Torrei were married from 2003 to 2011 and the two share a 16-year-old daughter, Heaven, and their son Hendrix, 14. Torrei has explained in the past that she and Kevin divorced due to his infidelity, which he has spoken about several times in his comedy skits.
Torrei has also accused Kevin’s current wife, Eniko Parrish, of being one of the women Kevin cheated on her with and said she is the reason their union was destroyed. Parrish has continuously denied this accusation, but in 2017, a sex tape was leaked and showed Kevin cheating on Parrish. She was eight months pregnant with their first child, Kenzo Hart, when the scandal took place.
The two have since worked out their marital woes and have welcomed their second child, Kaori Hart, in 2020.
Many have wondered why Torrei continues to carry Kevin’s last name since they have been divorced for years and he is now remarried. She opened up about her decision to keep using the last name during a 2021 appearance on “The Real” talk show.
She said, “Me and Kevin decided he had no issues with me changing my last name and my children also said to me, ‘Mom, we do not want you to change your last name.’ They wanted the same last name as me, and I said, ‘OK.’”
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Seattle Mariners shamelessly snatch 6-5 victory from the jaws of defeat, stylishly dressed snakes
There is nothing to be ashamed of in a slightly sloppy, somewhat shaky 6-5 victory. Not now, not ever. Not before nor after the Seattle Mariners squandered winnable games against the abysmal Texas Rangers and the moribund Kansas City Royals in the past 3-4 weeks. Not while the Athletics blew an 8-2 and 10-8 lead tonight, not while the Mariners have scraped nigh-inexplicable series wins from Oakland and Houston in the past 10 days. No, tonight’s victory over the burrowing snakes that are the 2021 Arizona Diamondbacks was a win worth every bit of celebration.
The extra-inning victory came thanks to the offense, in spite of the bullpen, a total reversal of roles from much of the season. Seattle had opportunities, especially early, to make this a laugher, as Madison Bumgarner struggled with his command and loaded the bases on a pair of singles and a hit by pitch, then walked Tom Murphy in for a run. Jarred Kelenic (more on him later) smoked a ball, but got well under it and flew out to quell the threat.
Frustrating? Yes! Damning against a better or luckier team? Often! But not enough bend to break the M’s today.
That’s because Seattle’s outfield came to play. Mitch Haniger finally crested 30 home runs, part of an excellent 3-4 with a walk day at the dish for the M’s right fielder. In his return to the park where his MLB career began, Haniger seemed to settle in with comfort to a matchup with MadBum.
Haniger hasn’t been All-Star caliber this year, but he has been solid. Most importantly, he has been present, extending his career-high home run total in his 130th game of the season. It’s clear some of Haniger’s athleticism has either been lost or is tactically being called upon with extreme scarcity as an intentional effort to ensure long-term health. Whatever it’s been, Haniger has been able to be more than Seattle could have realistically hoped for, and this blast stretched tonight’s lead to 3-1.
Meanwhile, another outfielder out in center made up for a mistake that cost his team a run. Jarred Kelenic failed to run down Nick Ahmed’s 405 foot blast to deep center, or more accurately, he successfully ran it down but failed to ensconce the ball within his grasp upon arrival. Instead the falling meteor clanked off his glove and onto the warning track, creating a leadoff triple that Arizona converted into that first run of the game. Jarred, who went 2-5 tonight, got revenge.
It’s one of those swings and home runs so nice you remember that at some point, every player on the field was the best player on their team, and for many of them, it was not too far in the past. Kelenic is hopefully getting himself closer to a place where he can one day become a player of that caliber in the big leagues, and for a player who has struggled to punish mistakes, it was a delight and relief to see this absolute obliteration to make it 5-1.
Starter Tyler Anderson was nails again, quickly racing alongside Abraham Toro up the ranks of best quasi-contending trade deadline additions in M’s history. With his 6+ innings, 3 earned runs, and comfortable efficiency today, Anderson once again gave Seattle a chance to win, even if his struggles going a third time through the order were the pilot light for Arizona’s game-tying five-run seventh inning rally. While Sean Doolittle relieved and seemed to struggle from the jump with his landing spot and command, and a hastily roused Paul Sewald escaped catastrophe by the skin of his teeth, Seattle yielded the lead but did not give more than a 5-5 tie.
There it would remain until the 10th, with Drew Steckinrider and Justus Sheffield navigating scoreless innings until the M’s got first crack at the ghost runner on second. Could they have added more? Yes. Was it a sight for sore eyes to see Jarred Kelenic come up huge once again in an important moment? Absolutely.
Could Jake Bauers have advanced to third so that Kelenic might get a double and threaten further scoring? Almost certainly! But a line drive spraying 97 to the side of the field where it was pitched is workable, workable stuff. And, more to the point, it was the difference.
One run, you see, was enough. Scott Servais managed his bullpen well once again, using Paul Sewald in the bottom of the seventh to attempt to douse the flames of a rally that might’ve made any possible future save situation nonexistent. It only somewhat worked, but it was the right move, and using Drew Steckenrider in the 8th also made sense. It did, however, leave Seattle with a more limited array in the bullpen. And yet every lever Servais pulled from the 8th inning on came up 777 0.00.
With Diego Castillo and Anthony Misiewicz still on the IL, Scott gave LHP Justus Sheffield the 9th, and despite being new to the bullpen game, Sheff worked a 1-2-3 inning with a strikeout and little drama. No velocity bump yet, but working back from an arm injury, that could still be on the horizon. Then came the 10th, and a move that strikes me as both fascinating and entirely understandable.
Staring down Ketel Marte, Carson Kelly, and Christian Walker, with the courtesy runner on second and a fragile 6-5 lead to win the game, Servais opted not for fly ball specialist Erik Swanson, nor breaking ball demon Casey Sadler, nor even veteran funkballer Joe Smith. Instead Servais went with the young, little proven fireballer Yohan Ramírez. Oh my goodness it was perfect.
Ramírez is an imperfect reliever, and he’s still somewhere between multi-inning bulk and hope and a prayer high-leverage man from night to night. But in a moment where Seattle could not afford contact, or if there was contact it had to be wretched, Yohan was impeccable.
73-62, one game behind Oakland, four back of Boston. 62-73 Pythag, but guess what? Every win counts the same once that 27th out goes in the books. No shame, no sorries, just smiles.
There’s a Guardian Of The Galaxy in The Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad marks once-and-future Marvel Cinematic Universe director James Gunn’s first movie for rivals DC, but the film still includes plenty of MCU crossover. Before Idris Elba played Bloodsport for Gunn, he guarded the Bifröst as Heimdall in Thor and its sequels; Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love And Thunder director Taika Waititi plays The Suicide Squad’s Ratcatcher, appearing in flashbacks as Ratcatcher 2’s dad.
But there’s someone else from the MCU that fans may have missed in The Suicide Squad. In a new interview with Variety, James Gunn says “no one, not a single person” has brought up to him “that there’s a Guardian Of The Galaxy in The Suicide Squad.” For those who didn’t notice, in the scene where the members of Task Force X go to the seedy Corto Maltese bar La Gatita Amable, one of the dancers is played by Mantis herself, Pom Klementieff. Gunn, who’s been paying attention to what fans say about the movie on Twitter, says he’s only seen two tweets where people have spotted her. And Klementieff hasn’t had many people reach out to her about the cameo, either, according to Gunn: “I talked to Pom the other day—I’m like, have people been asking you? She’s like, yeah, a couple people. But she’s just not being recognized. I’m like, what is going on? I can’t believe it!”
Klementieff first played Mantis—who has empathic powers that let her sense and manipulate others’ emotions through touch—in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2. She appeared as the character in Infinity War and Endgame, and is set to reprise her role in Thor: Love And Thunder next year.
In the same interview, Gunn addressed the movie’s mediocre opening weekend box office debut, saying, “The Suicide Squad is made to be seen first and foremost on a big screen. I think it’s gonna work just fine on television. Listen, movies don’t last because they’re seen on the big screen,” he says. “Movies last because they’re seen on television. Jaws isn’t still a classic because people are watching it in theaters. I’ve never seen Jaws in a movie theater. It’s one of my favorite movies.”
With the Delta variant spreading globally at an overwhelming speed, it’s understandable that, given the option of watching it at home on HBO Max, many would rather do that. Gunn gets that too, saying that as much as he’d want his movies to be watched in theaters, it’s still not fully safe to do so. “We’ve still got COVID, because people won’t get vaccinated, which, you know, they should. Hopefully—hopefully—that will not be a big deal to us in a year. And if that’s the case, what’s going to happen? We don’t know. Nobody knows. I care, because I would rather have people be able to go to the movies. But also, if they don’t, I’m not going to go slit my wrists. I don’t care that much,” he explains.
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