How Ancient Humans Killed Earth's Deadliest Predators

A 150-pound human. A 700-pound cave lion. One of them is dead and butchered in a cave in Bavaria 47,000 years ago. It is not the human. By the time ancient humans finished with the Ice Age, every apex predator on Earth was gone. The cave lion, the cave bear, the woolly mammoth, the saber-toothed cat. All extinct within a few thousand years of our ancestors walking into their territory with sharpened sticks and bad ideas. This video walks through how a species that could not win a fair fight killed everything that could kill it. The 125,000-year-old spear a Neanderthal left buried in a straight-tusked elephant at Lehringen. The 300,000-year-old spruce javelins from Schöningen that modern Olympic throwers cannot out-distance. The cave paintings at Chauvet where our ancestors watched the lions hunting them and learned how. The cliff at Roche de Solutré where humans killed up to 100,000 horses over 30,000 years. The 24,000-year-old poison stick from Border Cave in South Africa. And at the end, the one thing no other predator on Earth has ever had.