{"id":54459,"date":"2026-03-13T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conexion23.com\/?p=54459"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:06:06","slug":"este-cocodrilo-con-un-extrano-bulto-en-la-cabeza-cazaba-ancestros-humanos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conexion23.com\/?p=54459","title":{"rendered":"Este cocodrilo con un extra\u00f1o bulto en la cabeza cazaba ancestros humanos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Hace m\u00e1s de tres millones de a\u00f1os, cuando nuestros ancestros\u00a0vagaban por las sabanas africanas, su principal amenaza no eran los leones ni las hienas, sino un depredador acu\u00e1tico con un extra\u00f1o bulto en la cabeza,\u00a0informa\u00a0EurekAlert citando un\u00a0estudio\u00a0publicado en el Journal of Systematic Paleontology.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seg\u00fan la investigaci\u00f3n\u00a0liderada por cient\u00edficos de la Universidad de Iowa, EE.UU., se trataba de una especie de cocodrilo ya extinto, al que llamaron &#8216;Crocodylus lucivenator&#8217; o &#8216;cazador de Lucy&#8217;, en referencia al hom\u00ednido &#8216;Australopithecus afarensis&#8217;\u00a0considerada como uno de los principales antepasados de los humanos. El tama\u00f1o y comportamiento del animal hac\u00edan que cada viaje al r\u00edo fuera mortalmente peligroso.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Se cree que el cocodrilo vivi\u00f3 entre 3,4 y 3 millones de a\u00f1os atr\u00e1s, al mismo tiempo y en la misma regi\u00f3n que Lucy, en lo que ahora es Etiop\u00eda. Med\u00eda entre 3,6 y 4,5 metros de largo y pesaba entre 270 y 600 kg. Su hocico era m\u00e1s largo que el de otros cocodrilos de la \u00e9poca, y la joroba de su nariz probablemente serv\u00eda para exhibirse ante las hembras. <a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/592483-antiguo-cocodrilo-cazaba-ancestros-humanos\"><strong>Continuar la lectura en RT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hace m\u00e1s de tres millones de a\u00f1os, cuando nuestros ancestros\u00a0vagaban por las sabanas africanas, su principal amenaza no eran los leones ni las hienas, sino un depredador acu\u00e1tico con un extra\u00f1o bulto en la cabeza,\u00a0informa\u00a0EurekAlert citando un\u00a0estudio\u00a0publicado en el Journal of Systematic Paleontology.\u00a0\u00a0 Seg\u00fan la investigaci\u00f3n\u00a0liderada por cient\u00edficos de la Universidad de Iowa, EE.UU., se [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":54460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3881],"tags":[433,7383,7382,7384],"class_list":{"0":"post-54459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internacionales","8":"tag-animales","9":"tag-cocodrilo","10":"tag-humanos","11":"tag-journal-of-systematic"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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