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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days ago

Giant eagles once ruled the skies. They snatched human children, and shaped our evolution

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Giant eagles once ruled the skies. They snatched human children, and shaped our evolution

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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days ago

After the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit, giant birds became apex predators for tens of millions of years – and humans were among their prey.

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Using the same approach, phylogenically speaking early humans were chased by gigantic anomalocaris during the Cambrian period.
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  Grandpa used to tell us stories about those times.
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  Exactly. Thank you for the assist.

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