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cab67

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Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 09:44 PM

Mar 12

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I've met Johanson a few times, but my collaborators with the Hadar material have been his successors.

I like to remind the paleoanthros that I work on the animals that ate their animals.

We named an extinct crocodile from Olduvai Gorge Crocodylus anthropophagus. There are Homo habilis remains from the same horizon that bear crocodile feeding traces.

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So I did a thing (new fossil crocodile that ate our ancestors) - [View all] cab67 Mar 12 OP

Congrats! 2naSalit Mar 12 #1

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Very cool! Congratulations! K&R, nt. druidity33 Mar 12 #2