Imagine your head in the mouth of a leopard, you flailing and pushing away, and grabbing at whatever you can, while the leopard, slowly, casually, carefully crushes your skull.
“We know that to reach the inside of the mandible [lower jaw] of OH7 (as the leopard did) and break the mandibular corpus, a substantial amount of flesh and tongue had to be removed first,” Domínguez-Rodrigo said. “This indicates consumption and not just a bite to kill.”
They were 4-5 feet tall and around 75lbs. A leopard would have crushed it’s throat in a single quick bite, snapping the neck.
Then ate it’s face, likely to get all the tongue out, maybe to try and get to the brain.
Imagine your head in the mouth of a leopard, you flailing and pushing away, and grabbing at whatever you can, while the leopard, slowly, casually, carefully crushes your skull.
Nah, most likely post mortum:
They were 4-5 feet tall and around 75lbs. A leopard would have crushed it’s throat in a single quick bite, snapping the neck.
Then ate it’s face, likely to get all the tongue out, maybe to try and get to the brain.