Early Humans Weren't Apex Predators After All. They Were Eaten by Leopards--A Lot.
By Luis Prada
September 23, 2025, 6:52pm
Using an AI research tool, some researchers have found that Homo habilis may not have been as capable and powerful as previously thought. In fact, they might have been regularly eaten by leopards. Yikes.
Researchers from the University of Alcalá, publishing their work in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, dusted off some long-forgotten H. habilis fossils from Olduvai Gorge. That’s the Tanzanian dig site from which came a good deal of what we know about human evolution.
More specifically, they reexamined the bones of two individuals—OH 7 and OH 65—but this time had some upgraded technological weaponry on their side: artificial intelligence.
Previous human interpretations of the remains attributed the tooth marks all over the bones to scavengers, such as hyenas. But after feeding a massive dataset of predator tooth patterns into an AI, researchers think it wasn’t hyenas munching on their already dead bodies. Still, rather leopards munching on them when they were alive.
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Early Humans Sure Did Get Eaten By Leopards A Lot
One skull had gnaw marks on the back of the head, a chewed-up finger, and enough bite patterns to suggest that this poor hominin had its face in a big cat’s mouth, not in some triumphant hunter’s pose next to a freshly slain antelope. This means H. habilis may not have been nearly as cool and bada** as we thought. Maybe it was walking cat food.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/early-humans-werent-apex-predators-after-all-they-were-eaten-by-leopards-a-lot/
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Curious to know if the soft pink things had devised a response to their vulnerability, I found this at Google images. Looks like they are getting crabby about being munched!
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Those green guys should consider finding ways to can or freeze surplus pink things when they get them!
Thanks for the image!
(It's better to find out through the internet, than through personal experience!)
Very funny. And after the performance they go into how they came up with the idea and found the mariachi band and some clips from the rehearsals, and how they came up with her leopard dress. All in 4:22 m:s.
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The other musicians were so beautifully dedicated to the production, as well. Such wonderful, skilled, soulful people.
The dress allowed the singer to appear to be singing from inside the leopard! Astounding!
After the "wrap" the musicians should have celebrated by going to the finest restaurant and having giant cans of tuna!
What a great effort by real music lovers. Thank you!
It should earn the author a Nobel Prize immediately!
Time is of the essence.
So glad you posted.
Thank you, so much, for posting, DBoon.
You may just have saved our lives if we can all read it as soon as possible.