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Before Homo sapiens Had a Name: 773,000-Year-Old Fossils in Morocco Redraw Humanity’s Deepest Roots
For decades, the search for humanity’s deepest origins revolved around a familiar map: East Africa as the unquestioned cradle, Europe as the stage for later divergence, and the Sahara as a vast biological wall in between. New fossil evidence from Morocco now forces a fundamental reassessment of that narrative. At a quarry on the Atlantic…
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New Study Suggests Existence of Previously Unknown Crocodile Species: “Human-Eating Crocodile”
Dr. Jackson Njau, a paleoanthropologist at Indiana University Bloomington, and his team made a groundbreaking discovery while excavating at Olduvai Gorge. They identified crocodile bite marks on early human remains, leading to the discovery of a previously unknown crocodile species, Crocodylus anthropophagus, or the “human-eating crocodile.” Crocodiles and Their Impact on Early Humans The presence…