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  • Rabbits dig up 9,000-year-old artifacts on 'Dream Island' ... These bunnies have dug where no archaeologist has dug before.

    04/01/2021 7:35:55 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 23 replies
    https://www.livescience.com ^ | 31 March 2021 | By Laura Geggel - Editor
    European rabbits dug up Stone and Bronze Age artifacts on Skokholm Island. (Image credit: Fiona McAllister Photography via Getty Images) A fluffle of wild rabbits has dug up priceless archaeological treasures on an island off the coast of Wales, in the United Kingdom. The burrowing bunnies unearthed two artifacts — a 9,000-year-old Stone Age tool and a 3,750-year-old pottery piece, likely from a broken Bronze Age urn, according to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, which manages Skokholm Island, where the objects were found. ________________________________________________________________ Archaeologists have discovered similar artifacts on the U.K.'s mainland, but these new findings...