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From making baseball-sized spheres to colonizing rainforests with tool miniaturization, our ancestors did a lot.

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As early as 170,000 years ago, Homo sapiens was sustaining itself on fatty, protein-rich fare: the cooked flesh of giant land snails.

Giant snails discovered at 225k-year-old African site were used as an important food source!

"A glimpse into the complex social life of early Homo sapiens."

Charred shell bits at an African site reveal the earliest known evidence of snail-meal prep, suggesting ancient humans cooked and shared the mollusks.

Tourism is under threat in the once-tranquil Jozini region of KwaZulu-Natal, with bookings cancelled after criminals shot at foreign visitors amid conflict between villagers and roaming elephants.

Prehistoric people had to scrape and scrounge for every measly calorie. They often risked their lives to bring home dinner. Given the scarcity of ancient

A team of Israeli researchers analysed the remains of a large fish found at Gesher Benot Yaaqov, an archaeological site in the north of the country.

One anthropologist contends that far too many species have been lumped into one category: Our story is more complicated, he argues.