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Scientists say that mice adapted to live alongside humans around 15,000 years ago, based on fossil evidence gathered in the Levant:
New fossil evidence discovered by an international team of researchers shows that mice have been living alongside humans for the past 15,000 years, a new study [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1619137114] [DX]in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports.
Scientists believe mice first moved into human settlements in the Eastern Mediterranean region to steal wild grains and seeds that were stored by the ancient peoples that lived there. Though this began as simple scavenging, the rodents eventually took up residence in the grain stores and became house mice.
"Nowadays, thanks to this relationship, house mice have colonized almost every corner of the globe to become almost as ubiquitous as humans and also one of the most invasive mammalian species," said study co-author Dr. Thomas Cucchi of Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, according to BBC News.
Also at Washington University in St. Louis.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30 2017, @12:36PM
...and all through the topic,
not a creature was stirring,
except for this phobic.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday March 30 2017, @01:36PM (4 children)
Meatbags, they followed you for 15000 years. Can you please turn around and ask "WELL WTF DO YOU WANT, MOUSE?"
Account abandoned.
(Score: 1) by dwilson on Thursday March 30 2017, @02:26PM
Tried that several times, but all I ever get in reply is a glassy-eyed stare.
Turns out that when the only way they hold still for a question is when the trap breaks their neck, the conversation is something of a non-starter.
- D
(Score: 2) by KiloByte on Thursday March 30 2017, @02:57PM
And the only reason for mice to live has grown too fat and lazy to even bother. He's occupying my bed, too.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30 2017, @03:54PM
Rodent liek pizza [youtube.com]! :)
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday March 30 2017, @05:54PM
> "WELL WTF DO YOU WANT, MOUSE?"
The Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything, obviously.
Didn't you read your classics?
(Score: 2) by ledow on Thursday March 30 2017, @02:58PM
I blame that guy and his pipe music.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday March 30 2017, @04:22PM
Mice are lazy liberals looking for free handouts.
(Score: 3, Touché) by fishybell on Thursday March 30 2017, @05:26PM (1 child)
It took cats another 5,500 years [wikipedia.org] before they started doing their job.
(Score: 3, Touché) by hendrikboom on Thursday March 30 2017, @08:58PM
Cats live on their own schedules.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anne Nonymous on Thursday March 30 2017, @05:45PM
if we don't stop curing their cancer.