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On September 1, Megan Sasser and her family caught a massive alligator while hunting the Yazoo River in Mississippi. The alligator weighed 802 pounds and measured over 14 feet long, just shy of the state record. Sasser and her five family members, experienced gator hunters for a decade, launched their boat around noon on opening day. After enduring a three-hour storm, they spotted the gator over 100 yards away with binoculars. Initially estimating it to be 10-12 feet long, they approached for a closer look. When the gator submerged, they waited patiently. “At that point, we had no idea how big he was,” Sasser says. “We just knew he was a good gator.” Once the gator resurfaced, the crew hooked it with large treble hooks on bait-casting rods. After a fierce hour-long battle, Sasser managed to secure a third, larger hook attached to a 60-foot hand line. Mississippi law requires hunters to “secure” gators before dispatching them, so they snared the alligator in two spots and brought it alongside the boat. “We decided we were going to dispatch him, and then he started to death roll,” Sasser recalls. After rolling about 10 times, damaging the hooked poles, the gator finally stayed still long enough for the crew to use a 20-gauge shotgun. Too large to fit in their boat, they hitched it to the side and headed to the boat launch. “We were just a few pounds shy of the record weight,” Sasser says, “but we’re not disappointed. It was still the catch of a lifetime.” The post Hunters Land Massive 802-Pound Alligator in Mississippi appeared first on Anomalien.com.

While it’s long been established that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, recent studies have focused on when this happened. Now, a new study published in Scientific Reports has pinpointed where this interbreeding likely took place. Researchers analyzed the geographic distribution of both species in southwest Asia and southeast Europe during the late Pleistocene, the period when the two species are known to have interacted. Their findings suggest that the interbreeding likely occurred in the Zagros Mountains, a mountain range spanning modern-day Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey. The Zagros Mountains would have provided an ideal environment for these encounters. The region’s varied biodiversity and topography could have sustained large human populations and attracted groups from other areas, serving as a natural bridge between the cooler Palearctic region and the warmer Afrotropical region during Pleistocene climate changes. This location aligns with both archaeological and genetic evidence. The Zagros Mountains are home to numerous archaeological sites containing remains of both Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens. One notable site is Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq, where the best-preserved Neanderthal skeleton ever found was discovered, alongside evidence of a possible ritual burial involving pollen-covered remains. Around the same time Neanderthals inhabited the region, the Persian Highlands also played a crucial role in the migration of Homo sapiens out of Africa. This supports the idea that the area was a key meeting point for these human species during the time interbreeding is known to have occurred. The legacy of this ancient interbreeding still exists in modern populations. Since the Neanderthal genome was first sequenced in 2010, it has been shown that between 1 and 4 percent of the DNA in non-African populations comes from Neanderthals. These genetic contributions affect a wide range of human traits, including facial features, pain sensitivity, and susceptibility to conditions like COVID-19 and depression. The post Scientists Pinpoint the Likely Location of Human-Neanderthal Interbreeding appeared first on Anomalien.com.

PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett and New York Times columnist David Brooks desperately tried to spin the news that former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Rep. Liz Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris as some profound, potentially game-changing moment in the campaign. Bennett hyped the elder Cheney’s credentials, “So, Dick Cheney, stalwart conservative, no one can accuse him of being a RINO, Republican in name only. He served, I think, four Republican presidents, if memory serves me correctly. What do you see as the significance of their dual support for Kamala Harris?”     After joking that perhaps Cheney will become a hippy, Brooks declared, “For a lot of Republicans, character comes before policy and I think the Cheneys are among those Republicans and there were a lot of Bush Republicans for whom that was just an article of faith.” Brooks then suggested that the Cheneys and people like them could willingly associate with the Democratic Party because it hasn’t been taken over by extremists: The other interesting thing is about how interesting a decade the 2010s was, when the Republicans had a total hostile takeover from outsiders, Trump and MAGA. And so it left all the Bush people I know, like, we can't support this, not all, but 80 percent of the Bush people. And President Bush and Dick Cheney are among them. The Democrats had an attempted hostile takeover from Bernie Sanders, but it didn't take. And so they're a party that's still unified, and the MAGA is a party that's left behind a lot of people like Dick Cheney, and a lot — not only Dick Cheneys, but suburban Republicans who voted for Bush and Cheney. The Democratic Party claims to be the party of women, but can’t even bring themselves to say men can’t get pregnant. They can’t even talk about the Middle East without worrying about offending anti-Semitic college students. As it was, Bennett later asked, “Does the support from the Cheneys make it harder for a George W. Bush to stay on the sidelines, or does it make it harder for a Chris Christie, a Chris Sununu, or a Bill Barr, for that matter, to say that Kamala Harris is worse?” After claiming “Bush seems to be the happiest guy on Earth on the sidelines,” Brooks claimed, “a lot of people are like, I can't vote for these people. I can't vote for either of these people. Cheney gives a little permission structure to people, okay, I'm not just going to sit it out. I'm going to vote for Kamala Harris. I need to step up and save our republic from this. And so I think it will help with a certain segment on that point.” Every election cycle, some Republicans support the Democrat and vice versa. A Kennedy and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate have endorsed Trump, and the Teamsters’ boss spoke at the RNC, but PBS only focuses on Republicans for Harris because she is their preferred candidate. Here is a transcript for the September 6 show: PBS News Hour 9/6/2024 7:31 PM ET GEOFF BENNETT: So, Dick Cheney, stalwart conservative, no one can accuse him of being a RINO, Republican in name only. He served, I think, four Republican presidents, if memory serves me correctly. What do you see as the significance of their dual support for Kamala Harris? DAVID BROOKS: Who knows. Maybe he's swinging left. He's going to move to Park Slope. He's going to become a hippie. No. BENNETT: That, I'd like to see. BROOKS: For a lot of Republicans, character comes before policy and I think the Cheneys are among those Republicans and there were a lot of Bush Republicans for whom that was just an article of faith. The other interesting thing is about how interesting a decade the 2010s was, when the Republicans had a total hostile takeover from outsiders, Trump and MAGA. And so it left all the Bush people I know, like, we can't support this, not all, but 80 percent of the Bush people. And President Bush and Dick Cheney are among them. The Democrats had an attempted hostile takeover from Bernie Sanders, but it didn't take. And so they're a party that's still unified, and the MAGA is a party that's left behind a lot of people like Dick Cheney, and a lot — not only Dick Cheneys, but suburban Republicans who voted for Bush and Cheney. … BENNETT: Does the support from the Cheneys make it harder for a George W. Bush to stay on the sidelines, or does it make it harder for a Chris Christie, a Chris Sununu, or a Bill Barr, for that matter, to say that Kamala Harris is worse? BROOKS: No. Bush doesn't — he loves it on the sidelines. Bush seems to be the happiest guy on Earth on the sidelines. I think I'd just emphasize something Kimberly said, which is a lot of people are like, I can't vote for these people. I can't vote for either of these people. Cheney gives a little permission structure to people, okay, I'm not just going to sit it out. I'm going to vote for Kamala Harris. I need to step up and save our republic from this. And so I think it will help with a certain segment on that point.