# fossilfriday hominin paleoanthropology sciart fossil drimolen southafrica homo pléistocène hominidae homininae

shoutout to australopithecus africanus and 'prometheus' for skirting around paranthropus and kenyanthropus

and a special thanks to a. sediba for doing a pro gamer move into the homo hypodigm

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2022-02-18

Happy this is my favorite skull, Paranthropus robustus juvenile cranium (SK-54) - 2 puncture wounds indicate prey of Leopard 1.5 million years ago Swartkrans, South Africa.
📸 Carl Bento, Australia Museum ✍️ By Jay Matternes 💀National Geographic NOV.1983

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2022-01-08

Paranthropus boisei. There are other species of Paranthropus but I didn't do them because I wanted to draw members of the genus Homo next

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2021-06-20

MRD-VP-1/1 was the first relatively complete skull known for Australopithecus anamensis. Its similarities with later species like Au. africanus and Paranthropus may suggest that such traits evolved in the common ancestor of all bipedal hominins.

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2021-06-18

One of the beautiful fossils found in South Africa during the last few years is the DNH 155 skull, reconstructed by . This Paranthropus robustus individual lived sometime around 2 million years ago.

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2021-05-22

The oldest of their species: Homo erectus DNH 134 and Paranthropus robustus DNH 152 from Drimolen (South Africa). Dated to c. 2 Ma! +info https://t.co/G4ldpebnF2 📷 from et al (2020) https://t.co/gCbAIBOIiQ

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2021-05-14

The occlusal surface of the molars of Paranthropus boisei is three to four times larger than that found in today's humans. The premolars of this are enormously expanded. But the canine and incisor teeth are human-sized or smaller.

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2021-04-15

Paranthropus was a biped like today's humans, but may have used its legs a little differently. Some researchers think the species was climbing more, others point to the dynamics of a relatively wide pelvis in this

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2021-04-08

The late André Keyser was faced with the problem of extricating the DNH 7 skull from an ant colony and tangle of plant roots. The pieces today comprise the most complete known skull of Paranthropus robustus

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2021-03-22

By the late 1950s, scientists had recovered fossils that showed that Australopithecus and Paranthropus were bipeds in a humanlike pattern. The pelvis evolved a form different from any other living or fossil primates.

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2021-03-05

This is now a Paranthropus stan account

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2021-02-16

The tall rami of the SK 23 mandible match the tall faces of other fossils attributed to its species, Paranthropus robustus. Isotopic evidence suggests it ate the same range of foods as the smaller-toothed members of our own genus, Homo.

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2021-02-14

Paranthropus boisei is one of the best-known fossil species. Part of a branch that existed for more than 1.5 million years, adults could generate incredible bite force--shown by the huge area for the temporalis muscle.

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2021-01-30

Paranthropus aethiopicus is one of the fossil species that may be a "nomen dubium". The holotype specimen is Omo 18-18, a jaw that lacks any tooth crowns. What remains isn't distinct from large samples of P. boisei or P. robustus.

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2021-01-19

Students of evolution quickly pick up the differences between big-toothed Paranthropus boisei and our genus, Homo. Yet there are still anatomical overlaps between these lineages that make some of the fossils from Koobi Fora challenging to interpret.

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2021-01-12

Many of the most important fossils of human relatives are distorted or fragmented. TM 1517 is the holotype of Paranthropus robustus, found in 1938. Here I've done a reconstruction by mirror-imaging the parts that survived fossilization and erosion.

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2021-01-05

This week's entry is our recently published Paranthropus robustus from the site of A joint effort between and others from around the world! New hominins coming soon....

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2020-08-14

Une grotte d'Afrique du Sud a livré des crânes fossiles d'#Homo erectus et de boisei qui sont les + vieux connus pour ces 2 espèces !
Il y a 2 Ma, ils cohabitaient en Afrique avec Australopithecus.

Source : https://t.co/UXIbtPJ4zA

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2020-04-16

Dos cráneos de Drimolen-Sudáfrica de 2 Ma: DNH 134 es el H erectus más antiguo, contemporáneo con Australopithecus sediba y Paranthropus robustus, al que corresponde el otro cráneo DNH 152. ¿Cuál es cuál? Al parántropo se le reconoce por su cresta sagital.
https://t.co/ozdItbIg4b

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2020-04-05

A recent discovery of a Paranthropus robustus cranium (notice the sagittal crest) at the Drimolen site in South Africa confirms that species of Austalopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo overlapped in South Africa ~2mil years ago DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw7293

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2020-04-04