10 Predators That Hunted Our Ancestors (Number 1 Is Not What You Think)

For most of human history, we were not the hunters. We were the food. Giant crocodiles, eagles, leopards, saber-toothed cats, hyenas... In this video we count down 10 predators that hunted our ancestors, what the fossils really show, and which claims are still debated by scientists. And number one is not what you think. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:30 We were the food 0:53 #10 Giant snakes 1:25 #9 Dinofelis, the wrongly accused cat 1:54 #8 The crowned eagle 2:30 #7 Big cats 3:04 #6 The leopard 3:34 #5 Megantereon, the saber-toothed cat 4:04 #4 The man-eating crocodile 4:41 #3 Cave hyenas 5:13 #2 The giant short-faced hyena 5:45 #1 Other humans 6:23 How our ancestors survived SOURCES Headland & Greene (2011), Hunter-gatherers and other primates as prey, predators, and competitors of snakes, PNAS Brain (1981), The Hunters or the Hunted? An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy, University of Chicago Press Berger & McGraw (2007), Further evidence for eagle predation of, and feeding damage on, the Taung child, South African Journal of Science Brochu et al. (2010), A new horned crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene hominid sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, PLoS ONE Welcome to Before History, where we travel into the deep past to discover how ancient humans really lived. Subscribe and tap the bell so you never miss the next story. #prehistory #ancienthumans #predators #beforehistory #humanevolution