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Were human ancestors hunted by birds?
Research provides a break in the case of a famous hominid’s death

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - An American researcher believes he has solved the mystery of how one of the most important human ancestors died nearly 2 million years ago: An eagle killed the 3½-year-old ape-man known as the Taung child.

The discovery suggests that small human ancestors known as hominids had to survive being hunted not only by large predators on the ground but by fearsome raptors that swooped from the sky, said Lee Berger, a senior paleoanthropologist at Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand.

“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,” Berger said in documents accompanying a presentation at a conference Thursday.



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