A hoard of nuts buried by a rodent 17 million years ago is the oldest food larder so far discovered in the fossil record, say scientists in Germany.
A team from the University of Bonn found a burrow containing 1,800 fossilised nuts when digging at an open-cast mine near Garzweiler.
The winter food supplies were probably hidden away by a large hamster.
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