Cavemen dined on TORTOISE 400,000 years ago, new research reveals

Roast tortoise was on the menu for cavemen 400,000 years ago, according to new research. Tortoises were a staple of early Paleolithic people's diets, remains dug up in an ancient cave have revealed.  they formed a staple part of early Paleolithic people's diets . It had been thought they mostly ate large game and vegetables with turtle, now protected under EU law, off the menu even then. Now archaelogists have found specimens of the creature all over Quesem Cave, near Tel Aviv, Israel, and at different levels showing they were eaten throughout 200,000 years of human habitation. The cave was only unearthed in 2001 and excavations are continuing to shed new light on our primitive ancestors' lifestyle.=READ MORE -http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/cavemen-dined-tortoise-400000-years-7294540

Black tarantula named after Johnny Cash

A new species of black tarantula that lives near Folsom Prison, California, has been named after Johnny Cash.

The famously black-clad country singer wrote a song about the prison, and also played a historic series of concerts for inmates there in the 1960s.

Aphonopelma johnnycashi is among 14 new tarantula species from the southern US which have been described by biologists in the journal ZooKeys.

Their study completely rewrites the family tree of the Aphonopelma genus.

One of dozens of tarantula genera, this group was previously considered to include more than 50 separate species.

As part of his PhD research at Auburn University in Alabama, Chris Hamilton carefully whittled that down to 29. He eliminated a lot of double-counting, but also defined 14 species that were entirely new to science.

I have a Johnny Cash tattoo so I was very happy that it worked out that way

Chris Hamilton, Biologist, Florida Museum of Natural History

"We really tried to clean the taxonomy up," said Dr Hamilton, now a postdoctoral researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

"The only way we could do that was by looking at over 3,000 specimens, both from the wild and from natural history collections.

"A lot of previous names got eliminated. But there were 14 that were genuinely unique and new."=READ BBC LINK=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35473946

Just How Smart Are Ravens?

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Common Raven, Corvus corax.

Image: John James Audubon.

Some of you know that Bernd Heinrich has spent many winters studying ravens and their behavior. This month, Heinrich and his colleague, Thomas Bugnyar, published an article inScientific American that explores the intelligence of ravens. In this article, they investigate the question; do the birds consciously contemplate alternative behaviors and choose the most appropriate ones, or are they merely relying on instinct or learning to perform specific actions by rote?=READ MORE =http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/04/09/just-how-smart-are-ravens/

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Mouse gets caught in 155-year-old trap in Reading museum

 A 155-year-old Victorian mouse trap on display at a museum sprung into action again to claim its latest victim.

Ollie Douglas, assistant curator at the Museum of English Rural Life, was baffled when he discovered the dead mouse in the trap, which was in a cabinet.

He said the rodent could have entered the trap to make a nest, but got stuck inside.

The trap is one of hundreds kept at the museum.

Mr Douglas said: "We think that the mouse chewed at the label and got interested in chewing at the string attached to the label."

'See-saw mechanism'=read more =bbc link=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-35503613