Eating bugs

Derek Mamoyac, a climber who survived five nights alone on a southern Washington mountain and ate insects while crawling toward safety, remembers well how his mountain meals tasted.

The centipedes? Like Doritos.

And the ants? Spicy, like hot tamales.

- AP/ajc (link here)

Wild boar

Massachusetts State Police say a 200-pound Russian wild boar was euthanized after being struck by a vehicle on a road in Lancaster earlier this week.

- AP/azcentral (link here)

When I was in Michigan last time, I heard that wild boars (escaped from hunting preserves) were becoming more common in the northern lower peninsula.

Dinosaur dance floor

Utah geologists say they have discovered prehistoric animal tracks so densely packed on a 3/4-acre rock site, they're calling it a "dinosaur dance floor."

- AP/azcentral (link here)

Life in the deepest mines

Duane Moser went looking for life near the bottom of the world's deepest gold mines and found it thriving in a world of its own: a place with no sunlight to support it and water that's millions of years old.

Las Vegas Review Journal (link here)

Endangered Feces

http://www.earthsunmoon.com/products/item.php/512

Aerosteon

(Thanks to Elizabeth for calling my attention to this story.)

Discovered by Sereno and his colleagues in 1996, the new dinosaur is named Aerosteon riocoloradensis ("air bones from the Rio Colorado"). "Aerosteon, found in rocks dating to the Cretaceous period about 85 million years old, represents a lineage surviving in isolation in South America. Its closest cousin in North American, Allosaurus, had gone extinct millions of years earlier and was replaced by tyrannosaurs."

- University of Chicago (link here)