Human hair has been found in hyena poo showing that these animals never takes ancestors in Africa about 250,000 years over lalu.Rambut found in a fossil found in the Sterkfontein Valley caves Gladysvale in South Africa. Researchers from the University of Witwatersrand believe that hyenas actively hunted carcass our ancestors or scavenged dead bodies. Another hair shows that hyenas share their environment with warthogs, zebra, impala and kudu, as well as hominins.

Human hair has been identified in fossil hyena poo on a finding that suggests that our ancestors had also fallen prey to this wild animal.

The fossil was discovered a few years ago in a cave Gladysvale in South Africa, but only -new has been analyzed by the scientists who identified the hair.

African researchers believe that hyenas actively also consuming our ancestors who lived around 257,000 years ago or scavenged some of the bodies and swallow the hair.

But according to reports Discoveru News, they do not rule out that the animal is only a tasting snack human hair found somewhere.

According to researchers at the University of Witwatersrand, dung fossils are part of a "hyena latrine" found in a cave in South Africa Sterkfontein Valley.

Gladysvale is a cave complex systems consisting of several basement reached the depth of about 65 meters.

Phillip Taru and Lucinda Backwell, author of the study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, said that the brown hyena explore savanna grasslands as they do today.

Another hair indicate that these animals share their environment with warthogs, zebra, impala and kudu, as well as hominin ancestors or tribes in Africa. The scientists focused on the examination pattern of scale and cross-section of hair to identify fossil hair.

The researchers said: "The lack of hair scales have been documented in human hair subject to pathology.

They even suggested that our ancestors had a lot of hair damaged by abrasion due to inhabit crevices of rocks that could reduce the number of scales were found in the hair.

A total of 48 hairs were taken from 12 fossil using fine tweezers and examined using a scanning electron microscope.

They identified the origin of the hair using standard guidelines and compared with a sample collection of 15 mammal of southern Africa.

These findings support earlier identification of fossils of human hair and gives scientists a better picture of the Middle Pleistocene mammals local communities, as well as insight into the environment in which humans appear archaic and modern humans who live in the interior of the African continent.