Early Man Hunted By Birds

Via the AP

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – A South African anthropologist said Thursday his research into the death nearly 2 million years ago of an ape-man shows human ancestors were hunted by birds.

"These types of discoveries give us real insight into the past lives of these human ancestors, the world they lived in and the things they feared," Lee Berger, a paleo-anthropologist at Johannesburg’s University of Witwatersrand, said as he presented his conclusions about a mystery that has been debated since the remains of the possible human ancestor known as the Taung child were discovered in 1924.

Researchers had speculated the Taung child was killed by a leopard or saber-toothed feline. But 10 years ago, Berger and fellow researcher Ron Clarke submitted the theory the hunter was a large predatory bird, based on the fact most of the other fossils found at the same site were small monkeys that showed signs of having been killed by a predatory bird.

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3 Responses to “Early Man Hunted By Birds”

  1. Kilo Echo 4 says:

    I live with 25 parrots. Take my word for it, birds are a superior species to man. The parrots simply allow me to live in their home and serve them!

  2. LOL! All animals kept as “pets” control us 🙂

  3. LOL! We call them pets, but it is us that are really at the beck and call.

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