It doesn’t make a lot of sense that humans were able to make it to the top of the food chain. Unlike alpha predators, humans lack speed, strength, or any natural defenses like sharp horns or powerful claws. We’re actually pretty frail, all thing considered. This begs the question: If people are so easy to catch, then why didn’t a creature evolve to take advantage of that? But as it turns out, one did. You might not know it, one animal once evolved as a specialist predator on humans. And it is particularly terrifying.
This Terrifying Creature Evolved Specifically To Hunt Humans, And It’s Scarier Than You Think.
By
Editorial Staff in
Nature
On 27th April 2016
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#1 Humans As Prey
There once were these big cats that considered humans as their number one prey.
#2 Dinofelis
These felines were called Dinofelis, and they had huge daggers for teeth.
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#3 Human Skulls
These dagger-like teeth could easily puncture a human skull.
#4 Deadly
The Dinofelis was deadly to humans and were guarded against.
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#5 Spears
It is speculated that the reason humans built spears was specifically to defeat the Dinofelis.
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#6 Fear Of Cats
Human babies have an instinctual fear of cats, and this may be why
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#7 Smaller Dangers
Today, our predators are a lot smaller, but just as deadly, such as the mosquito who can carry the Zika virus.
