About 2.8 million years ago, in the savanna of South Africa, a three-year-old child was playing in a grassy field. His teeth had not yet come in. The child, of the Australopithecus africanus species, was unaware that someone was watching him from above. Suddenly, a giant predatory bird swooped down from the sky. It caught the child and killed him.
It is not certain which species of bird preyed on the early human infant. However, the holes beneath the eye sockets of the child, later known as the 'Taung Child', match the injuries caused by eagle talons. Eagles typically hunt this way. They store some of the prey in trees and take the rest to their nests.
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