Who bothered us before we became the most dangerous species?

Who bothered us before we became the most dangerous species?

Long before skyscrapers pierced the clouds, long before cities throbbed with electricity and Wi-Fi signals, before history was etched in stone or ink—humans were not the hunters. We were the hunted. The world of early Homo sapiens, and even our hominin ancestors before that, was one of fear, survival, and constant awareness of the predators that roamed the Earth.

Today, we sit atop the food chain—armed with technology, knowledge, and dominion over the natural world. But the journey to this apex status was steep and bloody, and it was paved with the bones of those who fell to teeth and claw. This is the story of the predators who stalked us, the creatures that once kept our ancestors awake under star-pierced skies, flinching at every rustle in the grass.