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Gimli is a Northern Rockhopper Penguin! Because they live among the rocks! (Also they're shorter than Erect-crested!)
Gandalf is the Erect-crested Penguin, because they have big ol' eyebrows!
Birthday Countdown #7: Princess Cimorene Erects A Sign. Here is some fan art for @PatriciaCWrede's wonderful fantasy series The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, specifically Dealing With Dragons. It's right after Princess Cimorene & Kazul the Dragon put up their sign.
Arago 44 is almost certainly not H. erectus. It may be an early Neandertal or another (H. heidelbergensis?) species. OH 28 could possibly be H. erectus, but if so may be a most recent occurrence of the species in Africa. I suspect it's something else.
A hint of the social behavior of early Homo erectus comes from the earliest known #hominin to survive with near total loss of teeth, 1.8 million years ago. Some wild primates also survive years with little functional dentition. #paleoanthropology #FossilFriday
The Mojokerto #hominin skull is one of the most important clues about brain size development in Homo erectus. At less than 4 years old, its brain was already larger than many adults known for the species. #paleoanthropology
The Hill of Crosses is a Christian pilgrimage site with a collection of over 200,000 wooden crosses erected on a small hill in Lithuania. The crosses are thought to have first started appearing after the 1831 uprising against Russia#Jurgaičiai #Lithuania #Catholic #pilgrimage
How long have humans had the ability to reshape ecosystems? Our project -recently funded by @NSF - aims to find out! We are testing the hypothesis that carnivory by Homo erectus caused Pleistocene mammal extinctions (1/4) [Photo cred: Karen Carr Studios/@HumanOrigins]
In 2002, a travertine quarry near Kocabaş, Turkey, sliced through a Homo erectus skull. Only one 35-mm segment was identified. The rest of this 1.4-million-year-old #hominin skull might possibly be tiled into someone's floor. #paleoanthropology
Some of the most significant #hominin fossil collections are those that represent at least some of the anatomy of several individuals. Most scientists interpret the fossils from Ngandong, Indonesia, as Homo erectus individuals just before 100,000 years ago. #paleoanthropology
The fossils from Caune de l'Arago, France, were interpreted as the European H. erectus -- in part because the Arago 44 hip bone has a similar form to OH 28. This idea of H. erectus pelvic morphology was bootstrapped without any fossils connected to heads.
The story of Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus is a fascinating case in the history of science. Fossil hominins from the lower cave at Zhoukoudian, China, are Middle Pleistocene in age, and were the model of Homo erectus from the 1950s up to the 1980s.
When fully charged, the shockers on Zinogre's body will become erect and open up, and electricity will constantly flow throughout its entire body due to the help of the Thunderbugs.