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12 June 2026
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Nick Petrić Howe
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00:37 Evidence that Stonehenge’s Altar Stone travelled by glacier
BBC Science Focus: We may have just cracked one of Stonehenge's greatest mysteries
05:44 Fossilized faeces reveal DNA from ancient ecosystem
Nature: Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01912-y
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