"You Thought Modern Life Was Bad. This Neanderthal Child Was Eaten By a Giant Bird" at Smithsonian.com
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| “About 115,000 years ago in what is now present-day Poland, a large bird ate a child. As Laura Geggel at LiveScience reports, it’s not known whether the bird killed the Neanderthal child or happened upon its body and scavenged its remains, but two tiny finger bones found by paleontologists tell a gruesome tale, all the same.” —Smithsonian.com, October 11, 2018. Image by PAP/Jacek Bednarczyk. |
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The lingering question is what kind
of bird could attack and eat a human child?
Researchers don’t address the topic,
but the record shows
other instances of hominin children becoming
bird food. . . .
When you dig into it,
there’s actually somewhat of a rich history of hunters
gobbling up children.
Even today, there are occasional reports.
James Penha edits TheNewVerse.News .