"Bed Bug Eddie"
Posted on 05/16/2019 6:18:07 PM PDT by ETL
A new study, published in Current Biology on Thursday, found that bedbugs have been around for 100 million years — significantly longer than scientists had previously believed.
“To think that the pests that live in our beds today evolved more than 100 million years ago and were walking the Earth side by side with dinosaurs was a revelation.
It shows that the evolutionary history of bed bugs is far more complex than we previously thought,” Professor Mike Siva-Jothy from the University of Sheffield, who participated in the study, said in a news release.
Dr. Steffen Roth from the University Museum Bergen in Norway, who led the study, said scientists had previously believed bats were the very first hosts of bedbugs. However, bats only evolved 50 to 60 million years ago.
“It was also unexpected to see that evolutionary older bedbugs were already specialized on a single host type, even though we don't know what the host was at the time when T. rex walked the earth,” Roth said.
According to the study, scientists believe it is unlikely the parasites fed on the dinosaurs because bedbugs usually feed on animals with “homes” — such as a bird’s nest or a human’s bed — which dinosaurs didn’t have.
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“have discovered 49-million-year-old fossils of four different Ectobius species in northwest Colorado”
Early democrats.
Maybe at that time, they were called “whatever you are sleeping on tonight bugs.” 😁
And now he is finally getting around to running for president from Indiana, go figure.
But think of that amount of time. That’s 1,000 x 49,000!
Imagine the length of time from today back to around 1000 AD.
Then multiply that by 49,000!
Europe in 1000 AD:
In continental Europe, the Holy Roman Empire established itself as the most powerful state.
Otto III made a pilgrimage from Rome to Aachen and Gniezno (Gnesen), stopping at Regensburg, Meissen, Magdeburg, and Gniezno.
The Congress of Gniezno (with Boleslaw I Chrobry) was part of his pilgrimage.
In Rome, he built the basilica of San Bartolomeo all’Isola, to host the relics of St. Bartholomew.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000#Events
(got it mixed up with the 49 million year old cockroach)
So what point in time did they become a indoor bug only due to everything outside will eat them like candy?
There is one discovery that “scientists” always seem to be making...
It’s that they didn’t know what they were talking about, before.
It’s a pretty good gig when you can get grant money to do it.
It was on March 17th, 1643, early in the morning. I think it was a Tuesday.
(how in hades should I know?!) :)
I wonder if Dino had bed bugs, fleas or ticks on him?
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Great, now I've got itches all over...
GREAT movie.
That’s before Eric Roberts died.
Figuratively.
I don’t know if you would know, but would the lye end up killing him or what is the best case scenario?
6 or 7 years ago, I forget now, I owned a triple white '77 Cadillac Coupe deVille, and had it registered with several agencies that advertised cars to various movie/TV and photoshoot companies. Anyway, a group who were making a low budget Mob film saw my car and got in touch with them. Eric Roberts, although I never saw him on the set, was in the film. From what I saw years later in clips and trailers the movie was so bad and so corny I still to this day have not seen it in its entirety.
The car was also in a photoshoot with Homeland star, Claire Danes. A photo of her sitting in the driver's seat made it to the cover of the UK edition of Vogue Magazine. Unfortunately, all you could see of the car was the interior! Made no sense to me. However, I later found two other shots that they had taken online.
The photoshoot took place at what was then called the "Clinton Diner" in Maspeth Queens, NY. They have since changed their name to the Goodfellas Diner, because it had appeared in the film Goodfellas. It was the diner where Robert De Niro knocks over the telephone booth after learning that his friend Tommy (Joe Pesci) had been "whacked" instead of being made.
That's Eric Roberts, Julia's brother, on the end on left.
As for the Claire Danes/Goodfellas Diner photoshoot...
And here are the other 2 photos from the shoot that I later found online. But only that cover shot made it in the Vogue article about her.
That’s definitely Eric Roberts :)
And the woman is hot.
I have been to Goodfellas a bunch of times as I would pick up someone who worked at the UPS over there sometimes.
Nice cars.
Good story :)
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