Researcher: Early man was hunted by birds

Researcher: Early man was hunted by birds: "Researcher: Early man was hunted by birds

(AP Photo/Denis Farrell) :: Paleo-anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, Lee Berger, delivers a lecture on his research into the cause of the death of the Taung child in Johannesburg, Thursday Jan. 12, 2006.

By Associated Press
ALEXANDRA ZAVIS
Updated: 01/12/06

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa

A South African anthropologist said Thursday his research into the death nearly 2 million years ago of an ape-man shows human ancestors were hunted by birds."