14 DAY TRIAL // There's no denying that Neanderthals no longer walk amongst us. The only problem appears to be that researchers have not yet settled on an explanation for how and why they went extinct.
While some blame climate change, a team of Spanish researchers are fairly convinced that Neanderthals owe their demise to the rise of the Homo Sapiens.
More precisely, they say that humans ate them, and that a thorough investigation of Neanderthal bones will most likely reveal human tooth marks.
“Except in its native Africa, in the other continents Homo sapiens can be considered as an invasive alien species,” the researchers reportedly write in their paper.
“The only manner to test it is to find direct evidences of modern human eating marks on Neanderthal remains, such cut or broken marks on bones in artifacts made by modern humans,” they further explain.
OK, so they still lack bulletproof evidence in support of their theory.
But then again, Homo Sapiens are known to have played an important part in about 178 other animal species' going extinct, so maybe this theory is not all that far-fetched. Maybe.