[microgood]

A 2 million year old cold case.

[One Proud Dad]

I think the shows on the Science and Discovery Channel that depict how dinsaurs lived are bogus. They show how these dinosaurs looked ( as far as color of skin and eyes ) and interacted with each other and even how they sounded and pass it off as fact. I did not know all that was available from a petrified bone.

[epluribus_2]

kid could have just died and treated as carrion, too. Still happens.

[Coyoteman]

Here is some information on this individual.

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Fossil: Taung Child

Site: Buxton Limeworks, Taung, South Africa (1)

Discovered By: M. de Bruyn 1924 (1)

Estimated Age of Fossil: 2.3 mya * determined by Faunal & geomorphological data (1, 4, 5)

Species Name: Australopithecus africanus (1, 3, 7, 8)

Gender: Unknown (1)

Cranial Capacity: 405 (440 as adult) cc (1, 3)

Information: First early hominid fossil found in Africa (7, 8)

Interpretation: Juvenile (3 years old based on deciduous teeth, first permanent molars) (1, 3, 4, 7)
Bipedal hominid (based on position of foramen magnum, brain endocast, small canines) (1, 3, 4, 7)
Killed possibly by bird of prey (based on fractures and puncture marks on skull) (1, 10)

See original source for notes:
http://www.mos.org/evolution/fossils/fossilview.php?fid=27

[Mike Darancette]

Early humans faced death from the skies

Isn't calling a hominid a human a bit of a stretch?

[ASA Vet]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556652/posts

[Muleteam1]

A large eagle could still kill a 3 1/2 year old child out in the open so this is hardly news.

[Publius6961]

An eagle killed the 3 1/2-year-old ape-man known as the Taung child.

Another one of those scenarios generated from a toe bone found in some remote spot: this individual ate apples for breakfast and probably was covered by 8 muskrat furs while sleeping...

Large returns of conjecture from small investment of fact...

Why "eagle"? Why not a large flying raptor the name of which we may not even yet know?

[rabidralph]

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

[wideminded]

I once read that Lloyds of London hsd insured a man against having an eagle drop a tortoise on his head. This is how the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus is supposed to have died. I thought that this was just a ridiculous impossible event. But recently I heard that some eagles do in fact carry tortoises up into the air and drop them on rocks to break their shells.

[Old Professer]

And eagles never eat dead prey?

[Tijeras_Slim]

I thought this thread would be about Islamists and the Air Force.

[RobRoy]

With the earths gravitational pull air density, etc., the largest a bird can get is roughly in the 35 lb range. And then they have a hard time doing much more than staying airborne.

Maybe things were different back then.

[Jaxter]

Early humans faced death from the skies

"An eagle killed.."

There are some middle eastern types that have the same trouble today.

[Clock King]

Isn't this like really old news? Didn't we already theorize/know this?

[SunkenCiv]

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