Hominins may have been food for carnivores 500,000 years ago
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - 13:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Tooth-marks on a 500,000-year-old hominin femur bone found in a Moroccan cave indicate that it was consumed by large carnivores, likely hyenas, according to a study published April 27, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Camille Daujeard from the Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, France, and colleagues.