Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Mouse Update

Bronze Age mouse offers clues to royal shipwreck - life - 04 September 2008 - New Scientist: "REMAINS of a long dead house mouse have been found in the wreck of a Bronze Age royal ship. That makes it the earliest rodent stowaway ever recorded, and proof of how house mice spread around the world.

Archaeologist Thomas Cucchi of the University of Durham, UK, identified a fragment of a mouse jaw in sediment from a ship that sank 3500 years ago off the coast of Turkey."

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