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True, but the Titanic sunk before even WWI. They would chart out their routes, calculate how fast they were travelling in order to plan how long it would take, but it was no where near as exact as it is today with GPS trackers on ships being accurate down to several feet or so.
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Snapchat proves yet again that people are stupider than a bag of rocks
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I don’t understand how companies can be firing journos when this stuff kind of thing is happening all the time.
Article says she wasn't arrested but I hope she at least got fined and points on her license. The way the article is written, I’m led to believe she got off the hook but I can’t believe she’d not be punished.
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Lincoln County duo charged with child abuse
LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. (KMOV.com) -- A man and a woman were charged with child abuse in Lincoln County.
According to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, 23-year-old Hattie Lester took a child younger than 12 years old to the hospital three days after 39-year-old Derek Neth burned the child's feet with a cigarette.
Lester was charged with child abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. Neth was charged with child abuse.
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Derek Arthur Neth
DOB: April 13, 1981
803 Legolas Ln.
Wright City, MO 63390
His Facebook (not archived)
Hattie Rose Bird Lester
DOB: April 27, 1997
28 Fish Ln.
Winfield, MO 63389
Her Facebook (not archived)
Derek's got a long rap sheet since 2012. Bonus Derek drama pissing off some rando close to the girl for roping her into this.
Lincoln County duo charged with child abuse
LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. (KMOV.com) -- A man and a woman were charged with child abuse in Lincoln County.
According to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, 23-year-old Hattie Lester took a child younger than 12 years old to the hospital three days after 39-year-old Derek Neth burned the child's feet with a cigarette.
Lester was charged with child abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. Neth was charged with child abuse.
DOX
Derek Arthur Neth
DOB: April 13, 1981
803 Legolas Ln.
Wright City, MO 63390
His Facebook (not archived)
Hattie Rose Bird Lester
DOB: April 27, 1997
28 Fish Ln.
Winfield, MO 63389
Her Facebook (not archived)
Derek's got a long rap sheet since 2012. Bonus Derek drama pissing off some rando close to the girl for roping her into this.
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and this my friends is exactly what you get for spreading that ACAB nonsense around and trying to make everybody terrified of cops and to see them as antagonists that are always out to get you
tldr: mother calls cops on autistic son who threatened to kill people with a gun, she was told they had to respond assuming the threat was real and he was armed, the kid in question 'saw the badge' and immediately became hostile and antagonistic and it led to him doing something stupid and getting shot. note the following quote from his mother:
Gee, I wonder where he got that idea from. What did she think was going to happen knowing he would respond like that and what she called the cops for in the first place?
But of course its the cops fault and they're the ones that need to learn to deal with autistic kids, not the mothers fault for making him hateful, terrified and antagonistic toward cops at all
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Have people seen this hilarious attempt to get blacks out to vote from some loons in Atlanta?
www.getyourbootytothepoll.com
Of course they open with the woman with a large ass full of celulite going right up from the camera jiggling her ass to get you, yes you Deshawn and Daaquaan to go and register to vote so you can see my big ass bootay clap!
Fuck me, the unintentionally hilarious racism is... amazing.
Get Your Booty to the Poll
www.getyourbootytothepoll.com
Of course they open with the woman with a large ass full of celulite going right up from the camera jiggling her ass to get you, yes you Deshawn and Daaquaan to go and register to vote so you can see my big ass bootay clap!
Fuck me, the unintentionally hilarious racism is... amazing.
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Saddleback College in California is looking to replace their current "racist" mascot, the Gaucho, with something else. One student gets to propose his idea, TittyPussy, during the Zoom meeting about it.
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Anchorage dentist who defrauded Medicaid and extracted patient tooth while riding hoverboard sentenced to prison
An Anchorage dentist who extracted a patient’s tooth while on a hoverboard was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison for dozens of charges including Medicaid fraud.
Seth Lookhart was captured on video extracting the tooth from the unconscious patient. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton said Monday that Lookhart nearly killed several patients by frequently sedating them for extended periods of time.
“In reviewing all this over and over again, I have this visceral response — you darn near killed some people,” he said.
Lookhart was found guilty by a jury in January on 46 charges including Medicaid fraud, embezzlement, reckless endangerment and unlawful dental acts. He formerly worked at Alaska Dental Arts in 2015 but bought the business the next year and changed its name to Clear Creek Dental.
Charges against Lookhart were filed in 2017 after a former employee told investigators the dentist was increasing profits by performing more intravenous sedation than necessary. In 2016, Lookhart and his former office manager Shauna Cranford billed nearly $2 million in unjustified IV sedation expenses, according to charging documents.
Medicaid patients do not pay anything for IV sedation, but the clinic could bill more for IV sedation than for other anesthetics like nitrous oxide gas. Medicaid patients would routinely be sedated for longer than necessary so the clinic could bill for more money. Investigators found numerous text messages from Lookhart describing the scheme.
During a trial that began last November, former employees and patients testified, including a woman whose tooth was pulled while Lookhart rode on a hoverboard.
In a video recorded on a cellphone, the dentist can be seen standing over an unconscious patient and pulling her tooth while riding a hoverboard. He then rode into the hallway with his hands over his head and spun around.
Another patient testified about having four teeth removed without his permission.
Lookhart’s dental license was suspended in 2017 after the charges were filed, but Wolverton ruled Monday that Lookhart will not be allowed to practice medicine during his 10-year probation following release from prison.
Prosecutors on Monday asked Wolverton to order Lookhart to pay $2.2 million in restitution for the fraud and embezzlement, although the amount will be determined at a hearing later this month.
According to the charges, Lookhart also allowed Cranford, who is not a licensed dentist, to extract a patient’s tooth. She accepted a consolidated plea agreement on 40 charges in October and is scheduled for sentencing this week.
Seth Lookhart was captured on video extracting the tooth from the unconscious patient. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton said Monday that Lookhart nearly killed several patients by frequently sedating them for extended periods of time.
“In reviewing all this over and over again, I have this visceral response — you darn near killed some people,” he said.
Lookhart was found guilty by a jury in January on 46 charges including Medicaid fraud, embezzlement, reckless endangerment and unlawful dental acts. He formerly worked at Alaska Dental Arts in 2015 but bought the business the next year and changed its name to Clear Creek Dental.
Charges against Lookhart were filed in 2017 after a former employee told investigators the dentist was increasing profits by performing more intravenous sedation than necessary. In 2016, Lookhart and his former office manager Shauna Cranford billed nearly $2 million in unjustified IV sedation expenses, according to charging documents.
Medicaid patients do not pay anything for IV sedation, but the clinic could bill more for IV sedation than for other anesthetics like nitrous oxide gas. Medicaid patients would routinely be sedated for longer than necessary so the clinic could bill for more money. Investigators found numerous text messages from Lookhart describing the scheme.
During a trial that began last November, former employees and patients testified, including a woman whose tooth was pulled while Lookhart rode on a hoverboard.
In a video recorded on a cellphone, the dentist can be seen standing over an unconscious patient and pulling her tooth while riding a hoverboard. He then rode into the hallway with his hands over his head and spun around.
Another patient testified about having four teeth removed without his permission.
Lookhart’s dental license was suspended in 2017 after the charges were filed, but Wolverton ruled Monday that Lookhart will not be allowed to practice medicine during his 10-year probation following release from prison.
Prosecutors on Monday asked Wolverton to order Lookhart to pay $2.2 million in restitution for the fraud and embezzlement, although the amount will be determined at a hearing later this month.
According to the charges, Lookhart also allowed Cranford, who is not a licensed dentist, to extract a patient’s tooth. She accepted a consolidated plea agreement on 40 charges in October and is scheduled for sentencing this week.
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Lol holy shit that dentist was a psycho. Lucky he didn't seriously fuck anyone up.
Hoverboards don't even hover, that was his biggest crime.
Hoverboards don't even hover, that was his biggest crime.
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World Record Holder for Most Funkos Has Over 5,000 Figures
Collecting Funko Pop! vinyl figures has become a national obsession. Nay, an international obsession. Since first coming onto the market in 2010, there have been Pop! figures from nearly every aspect of popular culture. Name a movie, show, comic book, or musician that you love, and they probably have their own Pop! figure. Or several. But even if you think you’ve got a lot of Funko Pops in your home, there is one person out there that we know has got you beat.
Thanks to Laughing Squid, we’ve learned about one Paul Scardino. This Virginia social worker now holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the most Pop! figures on the planet, numbering over 5,000. Scardino gave a tour of his record breaking collection via the Guinness World Records YouTube channel, which you can watch in full down below:
Sardino also released this statement:
“I received an email from Guinness World Records in the morning while at home, and I held off reading it until my wife was able to see it. …As I read the email out loud, I felt intense elation and satisfaction, as the months long effort had paid off, and I would officially be a record holder. …I was super excited to hear from Guinness World Records that I was chosen to be in the 2021 Edition.”
Mr. Scardino’s collection runs the gamut of pop culture. There’s the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC heroes, horror film icons, and characters from dozens upon dozens of TV shows. And, of course, there’s many Star Wars figures. After all, Star Wars and Funko go together like peanut butter and jelly. Several of Scardino’s figures are still MIB. That means “Mint In Box,” for you non collector folks. Most seem to be allowed out however. Which we, as a Funko collectors ourselves, prefer. They’re not meant to be in prison forever! We all saw Toy Story 2. That never ends well for them.
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Collecting Funko Pop! vinyl figures has become a national obsession. Nay, an international obsession. Since first coming onto the market in 2010, there have been Pop! figures from nearly every aspect of popular culture. Name a movie, show, comic book, or musician that you love, and they probably have their own Pop! figure. Or several. But even if you think you’ve got a lot of Funko Pops in your home, there is one person out there that we know has got you beat.
Thanks to Laughing Squid, we’ve learned about one Paul Scardino. This Virginia social worker now holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the most Pop! figures on the planet, numbering over 5,000. Scardino gave a tour of his record breaking collection via the Guinness World Records YouTube channel, which you can watch in full down below:
Sardino also released this statement:
“I received an email from Guinness World Records in the morning while at home, and I held off reading it until my wife was able to see it. …As I read the email out loud, I felt intense elation and satisfaction, as the months long effort had paid off, and I would officially be a record holder. …I was super excited to hear from Guinness World Records that I was chosen to be in the 2021 Edition.”
Mr. Scardino’s collection runs the gamut of pop culture. There’s the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC heroes, horror film icons, and characters from dozens upon dozens of TV shows. And, of course, there’s many Star Wars figures. After all, Star Wars and Funko go together like peanut butter and jelly. Several of Scardino’s figures are still MIB. That means “Mint In Box,” for you non collector folks. Most seem to be allowed out however. Which we, as a Funko collectors ourselves, prefer. They’re not meant to be in prison forever! We all saw Toy Story 2. That never ends well for them.
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Consoomer culture was a mistake
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then there's that guy pulling a ship by the teeth to get a similar award
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What makes funko decisively gayer (in fact it makes a quantum leap of gayness) than all other memorabilia is that it's based off of fake shit to begin with. People have been collecting crap for a long time, but even something like matchbox cars is based off real vehicles, vehicles which have utility and physical presence. Clothes, buttons, postage stamps, war medals, furniture, even paintings all have basis in the real world, made or used by real people for actual reasons. Only now do we see the ultimate iteration of consumer fantasy, a physical collector's item that's based off of entirely made up totems, completely reversing any logical process. Even the figurines of musicians and actors are a perversion, representing a sort of platonic ideal of a fictionalized character rather than any actual work or creation done by them.
There are other unpleasant aspects to the story, like the obvious fact that this collection must have cost a BOATLOAD of cash to assemble when you consider that this reject definitely bought "rare" ones on the secondary market. Even assuming every single one was purchased retail, we're still talking about $60k as an absolute baseline. This is what we've come to, cohabitating adult couples spending all their money and then some on ephemera without even a small consideration for the future. You can joke about bugmen and soy all you want but these people are DIRECT descendants of pioneers, warriors, or at least some form of real man. The fact that we went from patriarchs to -THIS - in 1 or at most 2 generations is horrifying.
There are other unpleasant aspects to the story, like the obvious fact that this collection must have cost a BOATLOAD of cash to assemble when you consider that this reject definitely bought "rare" ones on the secondary market. Even assuming every single one was purchased retail, we're still talking about $60k as an absolute baseline. This is what we've come to, cohabitating adult couples spending all their money and then some on ephemera without even a small consideration for the future. You can joke about bugmen and soy all you want but these people are DIRECT descendants of pioneers, warriors, or at least some form of real man. The fact that we went from patriarchs to -THIS - in 1 or at most 2 generations is horrifying.
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I hate how fucking identical these shitty things are. They're literally all just exactly the same thing with a color palette swap. Maybe a hat or something. There's almost nothing identifying them.
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Larger Hermit Crab Penises May Prevent Shell Theft
Members of species with shells they must hold onto for survival have larger sexual tubes than those with less precious private property.
Over the course of evolution, penis size has been subject to female choice and competition with male rivals. In a study published today (January 16) in Royal Society Open Science, Mark Laidre, a biologist at Dartmouth College, introduces a new idea: that larger penises help animals keep hold of precious resources. He compared hundreds of specimens of nine related species of hermit crab and showed that crustaceans that have more valuable shells have longer sexual tubes, helping them keep a grip on their homes while they extend their reproductive organs toward a mate.
“It is a relatively novel way of thinking about the evolution of penis size,” says Morgan Kelly, a biologist at Louisiana State University who was not involved in the work.
For the past decade or so, Laidre has been studying the behavior of a terrestrial hermit crab called Coenobita compressus. These critters are less than an inch long and picky about their homes. They remodel shells, carving out the spiraled inner parts to make a much larger room that allows them to hole up to protect their small bodies from drying out, which isn’t possible in an unremodeled shell.
Over the course of evolution, penis size has been subject to female choice and competition with male rivals. In a study published today (January 16) in Royal Society Open Science, Mark Laidre, a biologist at Dartmouth College, introduces a new idea: that larger penises help animals keep hold of precious resources. He compared hundreds of specimens of nine related species of hermit crab and showed that crustaceans that have more valuable shells have longer sexual tubes, helping them keep a grip on their homes while they extend their reproductive organs toward a mate.
“It is a relatively novel way of thinking about the evolution of penis size,” says Morgan Kelly, a biologist at Louisiana State University who was not involved in the work.
For the past decade or so, Laidre has been studying the behavior of a terrestrial hermit crab called Coenobita compressus. These critters are less than an inch long and picky about their homes. They remodel shells, carving out the spiraled inner parts to make a much larger room that allows them to hole up to protect their small bodies from drying out, which isn’t possible in an unremodeled shell.
Because the special shells take effort to create and are tough to grip onto, C. compressus often steal them from each other. Male crabs are especially vulnerable to losing their homes during mating, when they must emerge partway to ejaculate into a female’s shell.
“If they lose that shell and they don’t have it for twenty-four hours, they’re basically doomed to dessicate and die,” Laidre explains.
While examining preserved specimens in museums, Laidre was struck by the diversity of penis-like structures, also called sexual tubes, in hermit crabs. In particular, he noticed that C. compressus sexual tubes are “gigantic relative to its body size.” He hypothesized that larger penises may have evolved in this species, which uses extensively remodeled shells and for which sex is particularly dangerous, to minimize the distance they need to come out of their shells in order to mate.
Laidre measured the body size and sexual tube length in 328 preserved hermit crab specimens across nine different species from the Smithsonian Institution and the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. He calculated a penis-size-to-body ratio for each species. In line with Laidre’s hunch, C. compressus, which does the most remodeling of the crabs in the Coenobita genus, had the largest penis-to-body ratio, more than 0.6. Its close relative C. perlatus, which does an intermediate amount of remodeling, had a smaller penis-to-body-size ratio than C. compressus at about 0.5, but a larger penis than C. clypeatus, which performs the least shell renovations of the three species and has a penis about a third the length of its body.
While Coenobita penis size doesn’t come close to matching barnacles, which can have penises eight or nine times their body length, it’s a far larger penis-to-body-size ratio than sported by gorillas, which have tiny penises only about an inch and a half long.
Another important part of the story, according to Laidre, is the coconut crab, Birgus latro. These gigantic hermit crabs—up to nine pounds and three feet across—give up their shells as juveniles and recalcify their own abdomens, rather than finding a shell for protection. These big guys have a relatively miniscule penis that’s less than 20 percent of their body size. “What it suggests is that these [crabs] that have no danger of losing any property whatsoever have basically put virtually zero investment into this structure,” he says.
“I love his hypothesis and his data does support it,” says Christopher Tudge, a reproductive biologist at American University in Washington, DC, who did not participate in the study. He adds that one open question is whether the idea extends to other groups of crustaceans, particularly the aquatic hermit crabs, some of which also have sexual tube structures, but whose reproductive behavior is less well understood.
Another angle to explore, according to Tudge, is at what point during hermit crab development these large sexual tube structures appear. “If something is particularly associated with mating, then it’s most likely going to be a structure that emerges very rapidly at sexual maturity because an immature crab doesn’t need it,” he explains. “So there should be a very distinct difference between a non–sexually mature juvenile and an adult in the development of this structure.”
“Adding a few more species would be great to see more evidence or stronger evidence for this hypothesis,” says Patricia Brennan, an evolutionary biologist at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts who did not participate in the study. But the biggest open question, she says, is what are the other organisms to which this hypothesis may apply.
Kelly says that it was Charles Darwin who first recognized that “many traits that improved access to mates would actually probably decrease survival in nature, so there’s this inherent conflict between the actions of sexual selection for access to mates versus natural selection for improved survival, and this is a really great example of that.”
“I do hope that this idea might spark some work in other taxa to test its generality,” agrees Laidre. “Obviously, most other species are not literally using shells, but they do have external resources that are not part of their body. There are things that are valuable and that they’re trying to defend. What’s intriguing about this hypothesis is that the core of it is that there’s an inherent tradeoff in evolution between devoting resources to one thing and devoting resources to another.”
Larger Hermit Crab Penises May Prevent Shell Theft
Members of species with shells they must hold onto for survival have larger sexual tubes than those with less precious private property.
Over the course of evolution, penis size has been subject to female choice and competition with male rivals. In a study published today (January 16) in Royal Society Open Science, Mark Laidre, a biologist at Dartmouth College, introduces a new idea: that larger penises help animals keep hold of precious resources. He compared hundreds of specimens of nine related species of hermit crab and showed that crustaceans that have more valuable shells have longer sexual tubes, helping them keep a grip on their homes while they extend their reproductive organs toward a mate.
“It is a relatively novel way of thinking about the evolution of penis size,” says Morgan Kelly, a biologist at Louisiana State University who was not involved in the work.
For the past decade or so, Laidre has been studying the behavior of a terrestrial hermit crab called Coenobita compressus. These critters are less than an inch long and picky about their homes. They remodel shells, carving out the spiraled inner parts to make a much larger room that allows them to hole up to protect their small bodies from drying out, which isn’t possible in an unremodeled shell.
Over the course of evolution, penis size has been subject to female choice and competition with male rivals. In a study published today (January 16) in Royal Society Open Science, Mark Laidre, a biologist at Dartmouth College, introduces a new idea: that larger penises help animals keep hold of precious resources. He compared hundreds of specimens of nine related species of hermit crab and showed that crustaceans that have more valuable shells have longer sexual tubes, helping them keep a grip on their homes while they extend their reproductive organs toward a mate.
“It is a relatively novel way of thinking about the evolution of penis size,” says Morgan Kelly, a biologist at Louisiana State University who was not involved in the work.
For the past decade or so, Laidre has been studying the behavior of a terrestrial hermit crab called Coenobita compressus. These critters are less than an inch long and picky about their homes. They remodel shells, carving out the spiraled inner parts to make a much larger room that allows them to hole up to protect their small bodies from drying out, which isn’t possible in an unremodeled shell.
Because the special shells take effort to create and are tough to grip onto, C. compressus often steal them from each other. Male crabs are especially vulnerable to losing their homes during mating, when they must emerge partway to ejaculate into a female’s shell.
“If they lose that shell and they don’t have it for twenty-four hours, they’re basically doomed to dessicate and die,” Laidre explains.
While examining preserved specimens in museums, Laidre was struck by the diversity of penis-like structures, also called sexual tubes, in hermit crabs. In particular, he noticed that C. compressus sexual tubes are “gigantic relative to its body size.” He hypothesized that larger penises may have evolved in this species, which uses extensively remodeled shells and for which sex is particularly dangerous, to minimize the distance they need to come out of their shells in order to mate.
Laidre measured the body size and sexual tube length in 328 preserved hermit crab specimens across nine different species from the Smithsonian Institution and the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. He calculated a penis-size-to-body ratio for each species. In line with Laidre’s hunch, C. compressus, which does the most remodeling of the crabs in the Coenobita genus, had the largest penis-to-body ratio, more than 0.6. Its close relative C. perlatus, which does an intermediate amount of remodeling, had a smaller penis-to-body-size ratio than C. compressus at about 0.5, but a larger penis than C. clypeatus, which performs the least shell renovations of the three species and has a penis about a third the length of its body.
While Coenobita penis size doesn’t come close to matching barnacles, which can have penises eight or nine times their body length, it’s a far larger penis-to-body-size ratio than sported by gorillas, which have tiny penises only about an inch and a half long.
Another important part of the story, according to Laidre, is the coconut crab, Birgus latro. These gigantic hermit crabs—up to nine pounds and three feet across—give up their shells as juveniles and recalcify their own abdomens, rather than finding a shell for protection. These big guys have a relatively miniscule penis that’s less than 20 percent of their body size. “What it suggests is that these [crabs] that have no danger of losing any property whatsoever have basically put virtually zero investment into this structure,” he says.
“I love his hypothesis and his data does support it,” says Christopher Tudge, a reproductive biologist at American University in Washington, DC, who did not participate in the study. He adds that one open question is whether the idea extends to other groups of crustaceans, particularly the aquatic hermit crabs, some of which also have sexual tube structures, but whose reproductive behavior is less well understood.
Another angle to explore, according to Tudge, is at what point during hermit crab development these large sexual tube structures appear. “If something is particularly associated with mating, then it’s most likely going to be a structure that emerges very rapidly at sexual maturity because an immature crab doesn’t need it,” he explains. “So there should be a very distinct difference between a non–sexually mature juvenile and an adult in the development of this structure.”
“Adding a few more species would be great to see more evidence or stronger evidence for this hypothesis,” says Patricia Brennan, an evolutionary biologist at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts who did not participate in the study. But the biggest open question, she says, is what are the other organisms to which this hypothesis may apply.
Kelly says that it was Charles Darwin who first recognized that “many traits that improved access to mates would actually probably decrease survival in nature, so there’s this inherent conflict between the actions of sexual selection for access to mates versus natural selection for improved survival, and this is a really great example of that.”
“I do hope that this idea might spark some work in other taxa to test its generality,” agrees Laidre. “Obviously, most other species are not literally using shells, but they do have external resources that are not part of their body. There are things that are valuable and that they’re trying to defend. What’s intriguing about this hypothesis is that the core of it is that there’s an inherent tradeoff in evolution between devoting resources to one thing and devoting resources to another.”
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Ghost of Teutoburg Forest massacre emerges after 2,000 years: Armour of Roman legionary who was 'sacrificed' by Germanic tribesmen and 'cooked in a pot' is found at site of battle where 20,000 soldiers from three legions where wiped out in 9 AD
PUBLISHED: 13:49, 26 September 2020 | UPDATED: 18:35, 26 September 2020
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A near-complete set of Roman armour has been discovered by archaeologists working in Germany.
Experts working at Kalkriese, Germany, unearthed an entire cuirass belonging to a Roman soldier who belonged to one of three legions wiped out by Germanic tribesmen in 9 AD.
A cuirass is a piece of armour that protects the front and back of the torso made up of a breast and back plate.
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The Times reports that the director of the museum at Kalkriese, Stefan Burmeister, thinks the armour belonged to a Roman soldier who was sacrificed by German warriors after the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
He told the paper that the new find - which is the oldest and most complete Roman armour find ever - is both unique and tragic.
Near to the soldier's shoulders a shrew's fiddle was found which was used to lock a person's wrists in an iron board around the neck.
Given the value of the Roman armour, experts were left wondering why the Germanic warriors didn't loot any trophies, but Burmeister explained that the execution of the soldier may have been a sacred ritual.
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He said: 'Maybe we have a ritual context to the situation here. In that case the body and equipment would have been taboo.'
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest saw almost 15,000 Roman soldiers slaughtered at the hands of Germanic soldiers and is considered to be one of the two great military defeats in the Empire's history.
As they travelled through the thick forest towards a winter fort, they were subjected to small hit-and-run attacks by Arminius, a warlord from the Cherusci tribe.
The Romans had been under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus, a general under the emperor Augustus when they were defeated.
Experts examining the discovery believe that the craftmanship is better than previously thought and that it showed how Roman design changed over the centuries.
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest is one of the two great military humiliations in the glittered history of the Roman Empire.
Between 15,000 and 20,000 Roman soldiers and their commanders, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus, a general under the emperor Augustus, were destroyed by Germanic warriors in a series of guerrilla-style attacks.
The soldiers were making their way through the Teutoburg Forest towards a winter fort when they were attacked by warriors led by Arminius, a warlord from the Cherusci tribe who would later be known as Herman.
Varus' forces were made up of three Roman legions, six cohorts of auxiliary troops and three squadrons of cavalry. The forces were not marching in combat formation, and were streched out across 9 and 12 miles.
Germanic warriors, armed with light weapons and long lances, attacked the Romans who found the track they were marching on narrow and muddy, and used tactics aimed at countering the Roman troops.
Arminius had previously become a Roman citizen and had been given a Roman military education.
This enabled him to deceive the Roman commander methodically, anticipating his movements and tactical response to the attacks.
The three Roman legions were completely destroyed and the few soldiers that survived the attacks were then enslaved by the Germanic warriors.
The Roman soldiers, who had stretched themselves too thinly, attempted to break away from the Germanic soldiers multiple times but fell into traps set by Arminius on each occasion.
Many Roman officers are said to have taken their own lives by falling on their swords, while other officers were sacrificed by Germanic forces as part of religious ceremonies.
Following the defeat of the Romans, the Germanic warriors attempted to sweep the Roman presence out of areas East of the Rhine.
Upon hearing of the defeat, emperor Augustus was so infuriated he was seen hitting his head against the walls out his palace, shouting 'Quintili Vare, legiones redde! (Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!).
The battle - described as the 'Varian Disaster' by Roman historians - sparked a seven-year war which ended up deciding on the boundary of the Empire for the following 400 years.
Despite several successful campaigns following the war, the Romans never again attempted to conquer the Germanic territories east of the Rhine, with the exception of Germania Superior.
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Interesting that they found almost a complete set of roman armour.
- Archaeologists working in Kalkriese, Germany, have found a Roman cuirass
- It is believed to be the oldest and most complete find of its kind ever made
- The armour belonged to a soldier involved in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
PUBLISHED: 13:49, 26 September 2020 | UPDATED: 18:35, 26 September 2020
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A near-complete set of Roman armour has been discovered by archaeologists working in Germany.
Experts working at Kalkriese, Germany, unearthed an entire cuirass belonging to a Roman soldier who belonged to one of three legions wiped out by Germanic tribesmen in 9 AD.
A cuirass is a piece of armour that protects the front and back of the torso made up of a breast and back plate.
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The Times reports that the director of the museum at Kalkriese, Stefan Burmeister, thinks the armour belonged to a Roman soldier who was sacrificed by German warriors after the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
He told the paper that the new find - which is the oldest and most complete Roman armour find ever - is both unique and tragic.
Near to the soldier's shoulders a shrew's fiddle was found which was used to lock a person's wrists in an iron board around the neck.
Given the value of the Roman armour, experts were left wondering why the Germanic warriors didn't loot any trophies, but Burmeister explained that the execution of the soldier may have been a sacred ritual.
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He said: 'Maybe we have a ritual context to the situation here. In that case the body and equipment would have been taboo.'
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest saw almost 15,000 Roman soldiers slaughtered at the hands of Germanic soldiers and is considered to be one of the two great military defeats in the Empire's history.
As they travelled through the thick forest towards a winter fort, they were subjected to small hit-and-run attacks by Arminius, a warlord from the Cherusci tribe.
The Romans had been under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus, a general under the emperor Augustus when they were defeated.
Experts examining the discovery believe that the craftmanship is better than previously thought and that it showed how Roman design changed over the centuries.
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest is one of the two great military humiliations in the glittered history of the Roman Empire.
Between 15,000 and 20,000 Roman soldiers and their commanders, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus, a general under the emperor Augustus, were destroyed by Germanic warriors in a series of guerrilla-style attacks.
The soldiers were making their way through the Teutoburg Forest towards a winter fort when they were attacked by warriors led by Arminius, a warlord from the Cherusci tribe who would later be known as Herman.
Varus' forces were made up of three Roman legions, six cohorts of auxiliary troops and three squadrons of cavalry. The forces were not marching in combat formation, and were streched out across 9 and 12 miles.
Germanic warriors, armed with light weapons and long lances, attacked the Romans who found the track they were marching on narrow and muddy, and used tactics aimed at countering the Roman troops.
Arminius had previously become a Roman citizen and had been given a Roman military education.
This enabled him to deceive the Roman commander methodically, anticipating his movements and tactical response to the attacks.
The three Roman legions were completely destroyed and the few soldiers that survived the attacks were then enslaved by the Germanic warriors.
The Roman soldiers, who had stretched themselves too thinly, attempted to break away from the Germanic soldiers multiple times but fell into traps set by Arminius on each occasion.
Many Roman officers are said to have taken their own lives by falling on their swords, while other officers were sacrificed by Germanic forces as part of religious ceremonies.
Following the defeat of the Romans, the Germanic warriors attempted to sweep the Roman presence out of areas East of the Rhine.
Upon hearing of the defeat, emperor Augustus was so infuriated he was seen hitting his head against the walls out his palace, shouting 'Quintili Vare, legiones redde! (Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!).
The battle - described as the 'Varian Disaster' by Roman historians - sparked a seven-year war which ended up deciding on the boundary of the Empire for the following 400 years.
Despite several successful campaigns following the war, the Romans never again attempted to conquer the Germanic territories east of the Rhine, with the exception of Germania Superior.
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Interesting that they found almost a complete set of roman armour.
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