Giant 8-meter crocodile from ancient Kenya may have hunted early humans

Early hominids including Australopithecus and primitive Homo members likely faced predation threats from this giant crocodile when accessing water sources.

In the ancient wetlands of Kenya's Turkana Basin, a crocodile of almost incomprehensible scale once ruled the water's edge — the same water our earliest ancestors could not live without. Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, stretching beyond eight meters and extinct for over a million years, has been formally identified by science as the largest crocodile ever known, its fossils quietly waiting in collections since the 1960s before yielding their full meaning. The discovery does not merely describe a vanished predator; it reframes the human story itself, reminding us that for millions of years, the act

Giant 8-meter crocodile from ancient Kenya may have hunted early humans

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