When you’re a celebrity like Lainey Wilson, you’re bound to get a few admirers. At 32 years old, this country start continues to rise in fame with hit after hit. Considering the fact that this is something she’s dreamed of since she was a kid, she couldn’t be more grateful. So far, she’s already released four studio albums, and her next one, Whirlwind, is coming out in August. So, in other words, Wilson has quite a lot on her plate! In addition to her amazing musical career, Lainey Wilson is also known for her relationship with boyfriend Duck Hodges, a former NFL quarterback. The two of them are adorable together, but Wilson has one 4-year-old fan that may not agree. Turns out, Jenna Bush’s son, Hal Hager, is quite smitten with the country singer. So much so, in fact, that after meeting her, he came up with quite a story… YouTube According to Bush, her son told his 11-year-old sister, Mila, that Wilson had asked him to be her boyfriend. As you can imagine, Mila found this hard to believe. Still, Hal stuck to his story, insisting that the country singer truly did initiate a relationship with him. This wasn’t true, of course, but the 4-year-old certainly had a blast pretending! “Yeah, she asked me,” Bush recalls her son saying. “And now I’m her boyfriend.” Smitten 4-Year-Old Lainey Wilson Fan Creates Story of How He Became the Country Singer’s “Boyfriend” As much as Hal enjoyed pretending that Wilson was his girlfriend, their “relationship” didn’t last long. Soon after he first broke news of their budding relationship, he had news to share: They’re no longer together. Why? Well, for reasons we may never know, Hal chose to end things over a phone call. “So, Lainey, you have an admirer named Hal Hager who has created a whole story about how y’all once dated — and then he called and dumped you,” Bush shares with a smile during a segment of TODAY With Hoda and Jenna. “Which we know is false.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post 4-Yr-Old Lainey Wilson Fan Decides To Give Her Boyfriend Duck Hodges A Run For His Money appeared first on InspireMore.

Before he was diagnosed with ALS, Steve Gleason was a professional NFL athlete, playing for The New Orleans Saints for eight years. However, in 2011, doctors informed him that he only had three years to live. So, he used the time he had left wisely. He started Team Gleason both to raise awareness about ALS and help other patients. Now, thirteen years after the fatal diagnosis, the former football player has accepted the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage at the 2024 ESPYs. Be aware that there is some NSFW language in the clip. @espn Steve Gleason delivered a speech that will touch hearts for years to come #inspirational #legendary #history #espys #als ♬ original sound – ESPN Since Steve Gleason can no longer speak due to ALS, he delivered his acceptance speech through assistive technology. Standing beside him on stage was his son, Rivers, according to The New Orleans Saints website. ESPN shared an incredible video of the former athlete’s speech on social media. As you can see in the footage, audience members were completely captivated by the man’s words. Hear Steve Gleason’s words on courage. “When I learned I was receiving this award, I started reflecting on what that word ‘courage’ means,” Gleason said. “To be courageous, we must first experience loneliness, unworthiness or any of the faces of fear.” He continued, “For me, this honor represents some encouragement and triumph for the families currently living with ALS. All the people living with disability or other illnesses and all of you who experience fear or suffering.” Gleason concluded his speech with a beautiful call to action. Screengrab from TikTok “I don’t think anyone will disagree that we face enormous challenges in the 21st century,” he said. “If we can courageously share our fears and limitations with each other and compassionately collaborate to solve problems, our human potential is boundless. If we can listen, understand, and help alleviate each other’s suffering, then truly, all things are possible.” Now that’s an inspiring message! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Steve Gleason’s Speech After Winning The Arthur Ashe Award For Courage Will Make You Laugh & Cry appeared first on InspireMore.

A post shared on social media purportedly shows a video of Olympic Equestrian Charlotte Dujardin hitting a horse. Charlotte Dujardin : don’t know if this is the video that’s caused her to withdraw from the Olympics, It’s bad enough. if it’s not this one, it must be reeeeeaaalllyyyy bad! pic.twitter.com/COgBaNZx8D — tyrel wallace (@TyrelWallace) July 23, 2024 […]

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Four snakes found buried together are shedding new light on our understanding of snake evolution. The specimens – which represent a brand new species – lived in North America around 38 million years ago and could help explain how boas and pythons evolved. The new species has been named Hibernophis breithaupti and the four individual snakes that make up the finding were discovered in the White River Formation in Wyoming, USA. The fossils are extra special since they are nearly complete, and are articulated, meaning the fossils are preserved with the bones still arranged pretty much in the right order. Most other snakes of this period are only known from a few isolated vertebrae, making this find extremely useful for researchers. One of the snakes within the four is twice the size of the others, allowing the researchers to learn more about the different life stages of this ancient species. The team thinks the new species could belong to the boidae, a family which contains boas and pythons that we see today. The evolution of boas is not well understood. These new specimens are thought to be part of a group called the rubber boas, which were small burrowing snakes.  “We learn quite a bit more about boidae evolution in the broad sense,” says Michael Caldwell, a U of A paleontologist who co-led the research in a statement. “It seems that they probably started out as relatively small-bodied snakes, which is interesting.”The cluster of the snakes together suggests they were sheltering together during a colder period in what is known as a hibernaculum. The researchers think that this could be the first evidence of the social behavior of snakes preserved in the fossil record. The name "Hibernophis" comes from the Latin "hibernate", meaning to pass winter, owing to the suspected hibernaculum the snakes were found in. The team thinks that the snakes were probably preserved during a “small flood episode”. The largest snake is presumed to be an adult while the best preserved smaller snake is thought to be a juvenile. A third specimen is hidden under the body of one of the other snake fossils but is between the two in length. "Modern garter snakes are famous for gathering by the thousands to hibernate together in dens and burrows," continued Caldwell in another statement. "They do this to conserve heat through the effect created by the ball of hibernating animals. It's fascinating to see possible evidence of such social behavior or hibernation dating back 34 million years."The paper is published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

In the late 1940s, Indiana residents were gripped by rumors of a "500-pound turtle" allegedly spotted by two men as they were fishing in a lake. Curiously, it wasn’t the first time the giant turtle had been seen, with a previous sighting having been reported at the same lake. So, what on Earth were all these people seeing?The otherworldly turtle was estimated to weigh around 226.8 kilograms (500 pounds) and have a shell the size of a dinner table, according to Smithsonian Magazine. It muscled its way into the news cycle under the catchy nickname “the Beast of Busco”, attracting flocks of visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of the absolute unit.The legend hails from Churubusco, Whitley County, Indiana known to some as Turtle Town. According to the Indiana Magazine of History, the nickname originally stems from ‘Little Turtle,’ the name of a sagamore (chief) of the Miami tribe, but it’s later become associated with the giant turtle sighting at Fulk Lake.               The giant turtle became quite the celebrity in the area, becoming Indiana’s answer to the Loch Ness Monster. The Beast of Busco also went by a second, rather less grand name: Oscar.At IFLScience, we really love science, but we bloody love cryptozoology too. It’s a fantastic field of pseudoscience that allows us to debate the existence of bizarre beasts that are quite literally too good to be true.Among the most famous is the Loch Ness Monster, a slithery beast whose appearance in a few grainy photos over the years has raised eyebrows, and which has now gotten its own paper to explore the “eel hypothesis”. Then there’s good old Bigfoot who, as it turns out, could well be black bears. And who could forget Mokele-Mbembe, the “living dinosaurs” people used to think lived in the Congo, but could well have been a case of mistaken identity with elephants or hippos.With a strong bite and large claws, it's not a creature you want to mess with.Image credit: Noel Powell / Shutterstock.comIn the case of the Beast of Busco, it’s possible that another real animal could be behind the otherworldly sighting. The largest species of freshwater turtle in North America is the alligator snapping turtle, Macrochelys temminckii, and these things are pretty mythically huge as it is.With males weighing around 99.8 kilograms (220 pounds) at 0.66 meters (26 inches) long, they're about half the weight and dinner-table-scale of that reported back in the 40s, but they remain one of the biggest freshwater turtles in the world. Their historic range includes Indiana, though such a sighting would be considered “extremely rare” today.So, was the Beast of Busco just a hefty alligator snapping turtle, or is one of Monarch’s titans lying in wait at the bottom of Fulk Lake? We know which version we prefer.