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Dorset scientists find owls behind ancient 'feast of frogs' mystery
Researchers said birds of prey, mainly short-eared owls, ate the frogs and left the bones in a ditch that filled within a year.
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Archaeologists found 8,000 frog bones in one Roman-era ditch in England and spent a decade trying to explain them; a new study suggests birds of prey feasted on young frogs around 1,700 years ago
An archeological mystery involving thousands of tiny bones has been solved and offers an unusual insight into Britain's ancient wildlife.
·India
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Archaeologists, during the preparatory work for the construction of the highway from Cambridge to Huntingdon, dug a ditch with 8,000 frog bones.
When archaeologists working on the route A14, between Cambridge and Huntingdon, emptied a shallow ditch in the Bar Hill site, tiny bones began to appear and did not cease to appear. More than 9,000 came out at a single point, almost all of frogs and toads. No one knew what they were doing [...]
·Oviedo, Spain
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