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Daily Mail
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Byron Bay influencer's sausage dogs get STUCK together for hours after having sex: 'You could not make this up'
Ruby Tuesday Matthews received quite the shock this week when she stepped into her backyard. Having just celebrated her 32nd birthday the night before, the Byron Bay influencer discovered her two Dachshunds had become stuck together while mating. Ruby shared a series of clips on social media that showed her explaining the canine calamity. She said she was alerted to her pooches' problem by her nine-year-old son, Rocket. 'You could not make this up,' an exasperated Ruby began the first clip. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. 'So, obviously I had a few drinks yesterday because it was my birthday. I've come outside and Rocket's like: "Mum, the dogs are stuck together,"' she said. 'And the dogs have been having sex and they're stuck together.' Ruby admitted that she had tried various methods to separate her amorous hounds. 'We've tried ice on the butthole – apparently I'm meant to put my finger up the butthole,' she said. 'Maybe if we let them relax and eat a bone or something. It's going to be fine. They don't look too upset,' she added, consoling Rocket. It seems relaxation was not enough to extricate the dogs from one another, with Ruby uploading another clip admitting she had been dealing with the incident for nearly an hour. 'Guys, it's been, like, 45 minutes and there's no movement,' she said, as the two dogs, apparently content, sat on the grass, intertwined. 'I think we've just got to let them relax.' Ruby then shared another clip revealing that she was able to separate the dogs – albeit without an explanation as to how the operation was carried out. 'After another 30 minutes, we got the dogs off each other,' she said. 'Rocket literally vomited.' It comes after Ruby revealed, in March last year, that Rocket had a meltdown after she shaved the family dog Mango's fur. The influencer posted a clip to Instagram capturing her little one freaking out in the backseat of her car after he sees his newly shorn pup. 'I hate you, why isn't he the same?' the youngster is heard screaming at his mother. 'It's his new look,' she responded. Ruby captioned the clip with some telling words: 'Didn't go well'. She previously told her fans she would be shaving her dog's fur to make it easier to groom. Ruby has three sons and shares Rocket, nine, Mars, eight, and Holiday, two, with ex-partner Ryan Heywood and current fiancé Shannan Dodd. Ruby also recently revealed she was taking cannabidiol (CBD) gummies to ' get through life' and the chaos of raising three children. Last month, she shared some videos to Instagram showing her popping open some CBD gummies as her kids clung to her at the end of a long day. One video saw Ruby opening a bottle of CBD gummies from Hemp Farmacy as one of her sons tried to get her to 'make a face'. 'Lord help me,' she added, as she pulled out a gummy. 'You all need this to get through life.' Ruby started to laugh in the next clip as she handed the gummies over to her partner Shannan, while one of her children begged her to play a game with him. 'I swear to God if we didn't have these,' she wrote, as Shannan tipped two gummies into his mouth.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Science
- Yahoo
Large dinosaur mating 'dance arena' discovered in Colorado
Researchers have discovered evidence of one of the largest dinosaur mating "dance arenas" in present-day Colorado. Previous studies have identified a couple of "dinosaur lek" areas -- where male dinosaurs likely congregated to perform courtship displays for females, primarily for the purpose of finding a mate -- at Dinosaur Ridge, 20 miles west of Denver. However, using high-resolution drone photography and photogrammetry to make 3D models of the sandstone at Dinosaur Ridge, a team reexamined the area to see if there were more markings on the surface. MORE: Jurassic Park-ing lot: Dino fossil turns Denver museum into dig site What they found were dozens of lek traces tightly clustered together, suggesting the area was once a site to perform mating rituals, similar to some modern-day birds. "So, these trace fossils, we interpret them to be evidence of dinosaur courtship activities, just from kind of process of elimination," Caldwell Buntin, co-author of the study and a lecturer at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, told ABC News. Buntin said the team ruled out that these "scrapes" were caused by dinosaurs digging for food and water, from marking their territories or from colonial nesting, which is when animals build their nests close together in groups. "Basically, these were a lot of organisms that were coming together, performing some kind of activity that would include building some kind of nest to display to a female, and then maybe doing some kind of a dance or scraping activity, which generates a lot of the scrapes around the nest display structure," Buntin said. The scrapes belong to theropod dinosaurs, characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb, which were alive during the Cretaceous period, between 145 million and 66 million years ago. It's not clear which species made the scrapes, but they were likely three to four feet high at the hip and were between 2.5 and 5 meters (8 to 16 feet) long, from the size of an emu to the size of an ostrich, according to Buntin. MORE: New horned dinosaur species discovered 'largest and most ornate' of its kind ever found There's a "spectrum of different scrapes," according to Buntin. Some are simple, shallow toe claw marks, indicating one or two scrapes from the left and right legs. There are also longer scrapes overprinting one another, resembling a wagon rut. Additionally, there are semicircular bowl-shaped marks "associated with a step backward" with a second set of scrapes "indicating a counterclockwise or a clockwise turn." Lastly, there are deep bowl-shaped marks with some shallow toe claw marks, Buntin said. In terms of behavior, Buntin said these dinosaurs most resemble that of banded plovers, which are small shorebirds. "Basically, they will dig out a nest display, basically a fake nest, to be able to show a female that, 'Hey, I'm a strong male. I can dig this. I can make a good, strong place for you to lay your eggs,'" Buntin said. "And then when a female comes to visit, they'll perform a dance which consists of kind of bowing, bobbing, raising their wings out, creating some scratches around the sides of that display nest." The authors emphasized that the site is public, meaning anybody can visit and see the scrapes for themselves compared to other scrap sites, which are on federally protected land. "It does really make it a very, very unique site, because not only does it have this amazing like type behavior displayed, but it also is so accessible for lots of people to be able to see it and understand better about the behavior of these wonderful animals that we can see now," Neffra Matthews, study co-author and former employee of the Bureau of Land Management, told ABC News.
The Guardian
30-06-2025
- Science
- The Guardian
Flying ants: why this year's mating season could be longer and more frenzied than ever
Name: Flying ants. Age: Their ancestors have been with us since the end of the Jurassic period. Appearance: Like ants, but airborne. What kind of ant can fly? They're just regular black garden ants. The wingless ones you see walking around most of the time are the infertile female workers. And the winged ones? They're the males and the young queens that take to the air on what is commonly called flying ant day. When is that? There isn't really such a thing – the flying ants emerge over several weeks, usually around the end of July, with a peak period lasting a few days. But it can certainly feel like flying ant day when the insects in your area are swarming. Why do they do it? For mating with other colonies. The mating happens in mid‑air, which is why it's also called the nuptial flight. So it's like a mile-high club for ants? Not exactly. The Natural History Museum senior curator Suzanne Ryder describes ant mating as 'quick and violent, with the male dying shortly afterwards'. What about the queens? Once they've been fertilised, they chew off their own wings and start laying eggs. Great. So what day can I expect to be surrounded by thousands of flying, fornicating, dying ants this year? Predictions for this year's peak period are 22 to 25 July – or earlier in urban areas – and it looks set to be the worst one yet. Why? The climate crisis. Alternating warm and wet conditions could trigger the appearance of 'tens of millions of them taking to the skies in massive swarms', according to Paul Blackhurst, the head of Rentokil's Technical Academy. Is that enough to blot out the sun? Probably not. But they can be a temporary nuisance; occasionally, as in 2018, they arrive early enough to disrupt Wimbledon. What should I do? Best to keep your doors, windows and mouth shut during the peak. You mean just put up with it? Yes – black garden ants are an important food source for birds and a friend to the butterfly, while their tunnelling is vital for improving soil quality. Have they considered spreading their mating period over a more leisurely timescale? The swarming is supposed to improve their chances of survival by overwhelming predators. And overwhelming picnics in the process. They're not doing it to inconvenience you. Do say: 'Flying ant fortnight seems to come earlier every year.' Don't say: 'It looks set to be another hot ant summer.'
