#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

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[arkeomedya]

1,5 milyon yıllık ayak izleri

1,5 milyon yıllık ayak izleri Kenya’da iki eski insan türünün birlikte yaşadığını ortaya koyuyor Dario Radley 29 Kasım 2024 Araştırmacılar, Kenya’daki Turkana Gölü’nün antik kıyılarında yaşamış erken dönem homininlerin yaşamlarına dair nadir bir bakış açısı ortaya koydular. Yaklaşık 1,5 milyon yıllık olduğu tahmin edilen fosilleşmiş ayak izleri, iki farklı hominin türü olan Homo erectus ve…

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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.

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just snapped out of a Cermaics Frenzy

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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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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

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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.

[cmaidaartworkblog]

I've been working on 9 different Hominin reconstructions in Blender, and now I finally finished this Paranthropus boisei bust, reconstructed over a scan of fossil skull OH 5 provided by MorphoSource. The "skin" here is my significant modification of "free_basemesh_head_woman" created by Mono on SketchFab, because that had much better topology than I could make from scratch. These eight images are exported directly from Blender via a variety of camera setups, and the video fades between three additional versions of all these, including a Solid viewport shading option and a reveal of the underlying muscles, bone, and cartilage. Color and Displacement textures created in Photopea, 3d Object rendered in Blender, and video created with Clipchamp, 2024-25. More Hominins to come! Eventually!

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lenaluthoring -> boisei

clap for paranthropus boisei. everyone clap

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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.

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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=

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1,5 Milyon Yıllık Ayak İzleri Kenya'da İki Eski İnsan Türünün Birlikte Yaşadığını Ortaya Koyuyor

Kenya’daki Turkana Gölü yakınlarında bulunan 1.5 milyon yıllık fosilleşmiş ayak izleri, Homo erectus ve Paranthropus boisei adlı iki farklı hominin türünün aynı dönemde ve aynı bölgede yaşadığını gösteren ilk somut kanıtı sunuyor. Science dergisinde yayınlanan araştırma, gelişmiş 3D görüntüleme teknikleriyle ayak izlerinin ait olduğu türlerin belirlendiğini ve bu türlerin farklı beslenme…

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Jejak Kaki Berusia 1,5 Juta Tahun Menulis Ulang Evolusi Manusia

Sebuah jejak kaki yang dihipotesiskan dibuat oleh individu Paranthropus boisei. Kredit: Kevin Hatala/Universitas Chatham Jejak kaki dari dua hominin jenis ditemukan di Kenya menunjukkan bahwa mereka hidup dan berinteraksi bersama lebih dari satu juta tahun yang lalu. Lebih dari satu juta tahun yang lalu, dua spesies hominin yang berbeda mungkin bertemu saat mereka berjalan di sepanjang pantai…