These critical clues were puncture marks in the base of the eye sockets of primates, made when the eagles ripped the eyes out of the dead monkeys with their sharp talons and beaks. It was a marker that others hadn't noted before, that linked eagles definitively to the kill.

Dr Lee Berger

Base Clues Critical Eagles Eye Marks Primates Puncture Ripped Sockets

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