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But Australopithecus africanus wasn't an"early human" as the article states. It was a up right ape that probably resembled a chimpanzee. So people are imagining a human toddler being snatched away by a giant bird but in reality that was hardly the case. Still sad but this article still feels like sensationalism.
Australopithecus africanus are Hominini:
Using the same approach, phylogenically speaking early humans were chased by gigantic anomalocaris during the Cambrian period.
Grandpa used to tell us stories about those times.
Exactly. Thank you for the assist.
There are oral histories of children being taken by Haast's eagle in New Zealand.
These birds were monsters that hunted people.
We do have children skulls that show they were grabbed from above by birds in our fossil records. It was almost always children under three. It happened enough that we have surviving records of it