For decades, Lucy has helped scientists understand what life looked like for some of humanity’s earliest ancestors. But a new discovery is shedding light on another resident of her world, one that may have made survival far more dangerous, as per a report.
Researchers have identified a previously unknown crocodile species that lived in the same region of East Africa as Lucy between 3.4 million and 3 million years ago, as per a Science Daily report. The massive reptile has been named Crocodylus lucivenator, meaning “Lucy’s hunter.”
