#paranthropus boisei

[cmaidaartworkblog]

Some hominids-in-progress I've had on lately: a Neanderthal shifting her weight in preparation to throw a spear, some improvements I made to the meshes and textures for my A. sediba and P. boisei skins, and skins I still have to texture for H. naledi and H. heidelbergensis Digital painting (Photopea, first image), Digital sculpture (Blender, last three images), 2024

[paulpingminho]

[lost-wandering-historian]

My Dear Boy is finished! Fully hand embroidered skull of Paranthropus boisei. Hours upon hours of work finally done and I couldn't be prouder of it! I will probably be making it into a pillow later.

[felipithecus]

KNM-ER 406

During my time at the National Museum of Kenya, I was able to get up close and personal with some of the most incredible hominin fossils ever found!

It's super surreal to touch the fossilized bones of human ancestors who lived millions of years ago, and I feel very lucky to have had the experience.

KNM-ER 406 is one of those bad boys. It's a 1.7 million-year-old toothless cranium of Paranthropus boisei. It was found at Koobi Fora in East Rudolph, Kenya in 1969. It is beautiful and it is HEAVY.

[dilfsisko]

have a massive fucking zit on my shoulder and it is incredibly painful. this does not stop my desire to pick at it

[despite-everything]

just snapped out of a Cermaics Frenzy

[paleoart]

Extended Family VIII Zuberi Paranthropus boisei

Zuberi combines physical might with a gentle spirit, his robust frame concealing a guardian's heart. He excels in foraging and identifying plants, and though he is not much of a talker, Zuberi shares his wisdom through gestures and actions. Likes: the crunching sounds of chewing, misty mornings Dislikes: confrontation, being alone

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This is one in a series of portraits featuring different hominids under an intimate and humanizing light. Take these reconstructions with a grain of salt, but ask yourself: how similar to ourselves could our cousins have been?

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[puppetbilly]

coming along nicely

you know I had to do it

[vickysaurus]

Let's take a closer look at the hominin skulls in the Senckenberg Museum's human evolution room. Keep in mind this is not a linear progression through our ancestors, and more like a bunch of closer and more distant cousins.

The first one, Sahelanthropus tchadensis is seven million years old, and may very well not be a hominin at all. I've always leaned towards the hypothesis that it's a gorilla relative, not one of ours. No matter which branch of the apes it belongs to, it lived not long after the time the human-line (hominins) and the chimp-line separated, and possibly even before that point!

Ardipithecus ramidus, the first hominin from where we can start making a fairly decent family tree of our relatives. Before this point, 5 million years ago, hominin fossils are very rare, fragmentary, and difficult to assign. One of the most interesting things that does seem to emerge from these early fossils is that we have walked on two legs for a long time. Maybe even so long that our common ancestor with the chimps and bonobos did it!

Lucy represents Australopithecus afarensis, who shows up at this point (3.3 million years ago).

Australopithecus africanus, the Taung child to be precise. We're about 2.8 million years ago at this point. Australopithecines must've been such fascinating creatures.

Homo habilis, the 'handy man', named that way because when they were discovered they were thought to be the first humans who used tools. Since then, Australopithecus tools have been found, and tool use by many different animals has also been documented.

Homo rudolfensis, a population of humans who lived at the same time as Homo habilis and were notably bigger and a little brainier. Does it warrant being its own species? That depends who you ask. Splitting vs lumping is a point of contention in almost every group's biology, and it can run especially high in the field of human evolution since hominins are A very high profile and important fossils that directly relate to our own origins, and B an extremely tangled group that seems to have produced loads and loads of isolated populations and subspecies that regularly migrated all over the place and had frequent interbreeding events. Personally I tend to come down on the side of lumping them into a few major species.

Paranthropus boisei. These were basically a separate lineage of australopithecines, quite different from our own ancestors, who continued to do australopithecus things until quite recently. They were very good climbers and seem to have returned to the trees.

Homo ergaster, either a close relative or a synonym of the more famous Homo erectus. This is the point where we got really brainy, probably figured out how to make fire ourselves, and spread from Africa to Eurasia.

Homo heidelbergensis. Homo erectus and its many subspecies spread all over Africa and Eurasia and existed for well over a million years. As time marches on and evolution did its thing, we eventually start calling the ones in Africa Homo heidelbergensis. They were quite tall, positively enormous compared to little Lucy a few million years back, and they too joined in the human migrations out of Africa. From the H. heidelbergensis who moved into Eurasia we eventually get neanderthals and denisovans, while Homo sapiens evolved from the heidelbergensis populations in Africa.

And there's the neanderthals! Large-brained and creative (the first known cave paintings belong to them and they buried their dead), they were likely quite different from the brutish image we often get from them. Rather than truly dying out, their populations eventually merged with the larger Homo sapiens population once they migrated out of Africa, leaving our modern genes with a couple percent neanderthal DNA.

Homo sapiens. And that's us! Not so much the last remaining branch of the human family tree as much as several of the separate branches ended up coming back together and weaving into a single bigger branch.

And then there's these little guys, Homo floresiensis! Probably originating from a Homo erectus population that ended up on the island Flores, insular dwarfism ended up making them grow quite tiny. On their isolated island, they remained until about 50000 years ago.

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Ancestor (Paranthropus boisei) 

Paranthropus boisei was an early hominid species from 2.5–1.15 million years ago, living among the wetlands and lakes of the East African Rift System. The skull "Zinj" or "the Nutcracker Man" was discovered in 1959 in the now-arid Olduvai Gorge.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY OH5 BEST PARANTHROPUS!!!!

FUCK everyone happy birthday Paranthropus boisei

[cmaidaartworkblog]

Returning to hominid facial anatomy once again, I was able to adapt my A. sediba muscle model onto the OH5 skull (P. boisei) too! I'm happy enough with it that I went ahead and rendered some skins for them as well. Selected all the right vertices and generated UV maps and everything. Hopefully the colors look as legible on your screens as they do on mine, these are still very much in progress.

My restoration of this individual was partly based on an earlier attempt at rendering Paranthropus, from back in 2019. There were a lot of elements that got tweaked or entirely changed up in the update, but the mouth got to stay the same between renderings. Having even a little understanding of the face muscles makes a visible difference from one model to another, and I'm sure there's still some parts I could improve on as I keep working in this vein. If anyone has more technical knowledge about this sort of thing than I do, feel entirely free to get at me : )

[thespacewirednews]

1.5-million-year-old footprints of 2 different species of human ancestors found at same spot

Researchers have discovered 1.5 million-year-old footprints of two different species of human ancestors at the same spot in Kenya. The prints are believed to belong to the species Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei. According to an analysis of the footprints led by biologist Kevin Hatala of Chatham University, the footprints at the site were made within hours of each other.

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lenaluthoring -> boisei

clap for paranthropus boisei. everyone clap

[primate-tournament]

Round 1, part 2, match 15: Australopithecines

†Australopithecus (Australopithecus afarensis)

Artwork credit: Kepyle2055

Over the last few million years, a huge variety of hominins (human relatives) have arisen, only to go extinct and leave us all alone. A. afarensis lived from about 3.9-2.9 million years ago, and were short bipedal apes which were good at walking and might have been able to climb. They appear to have been highly adaptable, occupying a variety of environments- forest, savanna, etc- in east Africa. They likely ate a variety of foods, including grass, leaves, seeds, fruits, roots, insects, and small vertebrates.

†Paranthropus (Paranthropus boisei)

Artwork credit: John Gurche

A larger, more robust australopithecine- perhaps even a species of Australopithecus, but that’s a debate for someone else to have- P. boisei was a member of the hominin group specialised for herbivory. Their large jaws allowed them to eat tougher foods like grass and bark, but they probably preferred softer foods like plant tubers. They lived in wetlands and forests in east Africa from 2.5-1.1 million years ago.

[ilmaasaiexpedition]

The cradle of Mankind - a site in Tanzania that holds the earliest evidence of the existence of human ancestors. Olduvai is a misspelling of Oldupai, a Maasai word for a wild sisal plant that grows in the area. The gorge is located in the Great Rift Valley, between the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti National Park. The monument consists of two large-scale models of fossil skulls which sit atop a large pedestal with an informative plaque mounted on the side of the pedestal. The fossil skulls depicted are Paranthropus boisei and Homo habilis, two contemporary species which were first discovered at Olduvai Gorge. For inquiries send us a message directly 📩 WhatsApp +255784430477 Email : ilmaasai@hotmail.com Website : www.ilmaasai.co.tz info@ilmaasai.co.tz #safaritanzania #ilmaasaiexpedition #tansania #zanzibar #sansibar #tanzania #touroperator #tanzaniaexpeditions #serengeti #ngorongoro #manyara #tarangirenationalpark #wildlife #adventure #eastafrica #beautifuldestinations #wonderful_places #placestovisit #campingsafari #luxurysafari #lodgesafari #budgetedsafari #safaridiscounts #unitedstates #europe #america #germany #italia #africa #holiday (at Olduvai Gorge) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpNpBLaMItO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=