Humans are eating the scaly anteater to extinction, conservationists warned as a new assessment showed that all species of pangolin are under threat.

The update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of threatened species reveals the situation for the pangolin – the world’s only truly scaly mammal – has worsened rapidly with all eight species now at risk of extinction.

Experts warned that the pangolin, whose scales are used in Chinese medicine and whose meat is seen as a status symbol in China and Vietnam, is the most illegally traded mammal in the world.

Lasting effect of computer games

Video-gamers can still hear the sounds from their computer games, such as explosions, screams or music, long after they have finished playing, research suggests.

Playing games ‘intensively’ – such as for long sessions or playing frequently – appears to be more commonly associated with experiencing sounds from games in the real world, experts said.

Psychologists visited online forums for players and collected data from 1,244 people who had experienced ‘game transfer phenomena’, where perceptions, thoughts and behaviours are influenced by video game-playing.

Of these, 155 (12 per cent) claimed they had auditory experiences as a result of game play, according to research published in the International Journal of Cyber Behaviour, Psychology and Learning.

Police not Shrek-ing their duties

A musical being performed in a US park has drawn some noise complaints, but police said there are no plans to “give Shrek a ticket”.

Shrek the Musical is enjoying a summer run in the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but some neighbours want the volume turned down.

Police and councillors said they have been getting complaints about noise from the shows, but deputy police chief Corey MacDonald said he has no plans to take action against the green ogre.

Shocking bed is back at the Tate

Artist Tracey Emin’s £2.54 million bed – complete with empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts and discarded condoms – is returning to the Tate more than 15 years after it first caused shockwaves at the gallery.

My Bed hit the headlines when it was shortlisted for the Turner Prize and was displayed at Tate Britain in 1999.

Earlier this month the notorious work fetched £2.54 million at auction, a record for the artist, when it was purchased by dealer and White Cube gallery owner Jay Jopling.

It has now emerged that Jopling acquired the work on behalf of German industrialist and collector Count Christian Duerckheim, who has announced the loan to Tate for at least 10 years.