A Massive Pliocene Crocodile May Have Hunted Lucy and Other Early Hominins, 3 Million Years Ago
More than three million years ago, Lucy — the famously complete fossil of an early human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 — moved through a landscape of wetlands, rivers, forests, and grasslands. Those waterways supported life across the region, drawing animals large and small to drink. But they may also have concealed one of…
