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Early Americans ate tons of mammoth, 13,000-year-old bones from Clovis culture baby reveal

Early Indigenous Americans relied heavily on meat from mammoths to survive, according to a new study, which suggests they were top-notch experts at hunting the massive beasts. The findings, reported in a study published Wednesday (Dec. 4) in the journal Science Advancesare based on chemical analyses of the bones of an 18-month-old boy — dubbed […]

Technology

DNA confirms these 19th century lions ate humans

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.  A team of scientists has now identified exactly what kinds of prey the so-called “Tsavo Man-Eaters” fed upon, based on DNA analysis of […]