#paranthropus

[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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#paleoart #palaeoblr #paranthropus #extendedfamily #hominid

[ancientorigins]

Human evolution is a long journey, full of branching paths. One such branch was the Paranthropus, a mysterious tool-using species that went extinct 1 million years ago.

#Human Evolution #Hominin #Paranthropus #Pleistocene

[river-taxbird]

Paranthropus Appreciation Post!

What does this cow-like bipedal ape say about what it means to be human?

Paranthropus is a genus of extinct bipedial ape, represented by fossils of three species in west and south Africa around 2 million years ago. It seems like they evolved from earlier bipedal apes called Australopiths, which branched into two groups, Homo, which started eating meat and using tools, and eventually evolved into humans. The name paranthropus even means "Beside man." Paranthropus went in another direction, and filled a cow like niche. It has HUGE teeth compared to other apes, and this means it probably ate grass or nuts, depending on the subspecies. Bigfoot people, if you want to stop appropriating indigenous myths, paranthropus is right there.

While they are not humans or proto humans, it does raise some interesting questions on what it means to be human. Were they basically just bipedal gorillas, or did they have more going on? They went in a different direction from our hunter gather ancestors, but they did exist in the same time and places. We like to think of using stone tools as something only humans and our ancestors do, but there is a stone tool site that is associated with paranthropus, due to one of their unmistakable teeth being found at the site. This probably means it did eat meat at least sometimes, and used stone tools to butcher carcasses. There was clearly something going on in their minds.

Images of stone tools found associated with paranthropus, including analysis. Source

It may seem surprising that other apes could use flaked stone tools, but most people in the know accept that australopiths, or other similar apes that may be ancestor to both homo and paranthropus could use stone tools, so there's no reason to think it couldn't other than human supremacy.

We have also sequenced proteins from their teeth that shows how closely related they are to humans, and it confirms the time they split from our family.

They are a super cool ape and shows that we are not the inevitable endgoal of human evolution. Anyway, now I have told you about it, I hope to see some paranthropus and other pre-human bipedal ape fursonas. They are the only animals that are truly "anthro", and the fact humans are the only bipedal great ape still alive contributes to human supremacy over animals. Imagine if there were relatives this close to us around today!

#anthropology #paleoanthropology #paranthropus #furry #primatology #apes #primates #history #human history #archeology

[hasellia]

Welp I finally did it. I made a Ko-fi.

I've already put my profile in my pinned post. But did you also I'm also doing commissions! Yes commissions! Of questionable quality!

Look, I'm going to be real with you, bud. I've never done commission work before. EVER! I'm basically askin' to be taken advantage of here! Do you know how much money it is worth to attempt to draw a perfect circle for 5 hours? BECAUSE I SURE AS HELL DON'T! My bare arse is basically hanging off the side of a barge, covered with writing made out of hot chum that says "EAT ME"! Do it! Take the bait while you still can! I'm a young'n, I've only got more life experience to gain from here! You're losing out!

Look at this fine specimen! Do you honestly think Pablo Picasso could recreate this? He'd have bile at the back of his throat!

What's this!? Work In Progressii!!!? Yes my friend, believe it or not, IT IS OUR MOST NUMEROUS STOCK! If my WIPs were to be stored in the computers that put man on the moon, I'd actually have warehouses full of the stuff! You too can commission a work in progress! You want that? Then it's yours my friend!

SWEET BRIDE OF HEPHAESTUS! HALF DECENT TRADITIONAL ART!!! DON'T LOOK! AVERT YOUR PRYING EYES! LOOK DOWN! DOWN FOOL DOWN!!!

PNGs of these doodle scraps are currently going for $10. Subject to change.

Ten dollars! But subject to change!? There's no time! You have to make the commission request! It's the only way! I have keratoconus, dear reader! I NEED EYE SURGERY!!!!!

Okay no seriously my eye lens is slipping. If you can donate anything towards my surgery and just day-to-day living that would be very much appreciated. Thank you for reading, have a lovely day, and let's bring kinder times together. - Hasselia Amber

#art commissions open #my art #ko fi #art commissions #ko fi commissions #ko fi support #traditional art #pencil #paper #artist on tumblr #artist on kofi #artist on ko fi #fundraiser #buy me a kofi #support #commisions open #art commisions #drawing #palkia #pokemon #paranthropus #monster girl #mantis girl #pirate #donations #live drawing #body horror #fire emblem #aliens #sci fi

[skyradiant]

Meet your relatives: The hominids featured in Walking With Cavemen.

#walking with cavemen #walking with #human #australopithecus #paranthropus #homo rudolfensis #homo habilis #homo ergaster #homo erectus #gigantopithecus #homo heidelbergensis #neanderthal #homo sapiens #mine #the last one is lower quality because it was one of the few good forward-facing shots with modern humans in the last episode #and it's from the ending so it makes for a fitting note to end on #q

[tyrannoninja]

Sasquatch versus Smilodon

On a rocky ledge in the Pacific Northwest, the saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis attacks a male sasquatch in a contest of feline ferocity against simian strength!

Possibly originating in the legends of indigenous cultures in northwestern North America, the sasquatch has since become immortalized in the region’s folklore as “Bigfoot”. Those who believe the myth might have a grain of truth argue the sasquatch to be a relict descendant of the giant orangutan relative Gigantopithecus. However, seeing as the creature’s most iconic image is that of a bipedal ape, I opted to make my version a hominin related to the African Paranthropus.

#Sasquatch #bigfoot #cryptid #cryptozoology #hominin #paranthropus #smilodon #sabertooth cat #pleistocene #prehistoric #digital art #paleoart #art

[vickysaurus]

Paranthropus, a very close cousin of ours. They are not our ancestors, but rather a separate branch descending from Australopithecus that went a quite different path from our own Homo ancestors. They didn't go extinct until 600000 years ago, and were probably solid tree climbers. They seem to have used tools and may have used fire too, but don't have a bigger brain case than chimpansees. They've always fascinated me, both for the what-if scenario of them surviving to the present day and being even closer cousins than chimps, and also because they show evolution can go any which way and even at this point in human evolution there was plenty of space for hominins to say 'Using tools and walking on our back legs is fun and all, but why don't we go climb trees again too?' And that was a successful evolutionary strategy that left them walking the Earth alongside our own big noggins for a really long time.

#paranthropus #human evolution #ape #primate #mammal #quaternary #palaeoblr

[magnetothemagnificent]

Genus Paranthropus sure did put all their energy into cresting and not enough into having prominent canines. Like c'mon man, even us delicate Homo sapiens have more curved and sharp canines than that! "Robust" Australopithecines my ass......no robustness at all in those canines.....

#anthropology #human evolution #paranthropus #paranthropus baby what kind of evolutionary path were you thinking #hominins

[gisgo]

It's difficult to do research on human hybrids on Google because looking up Yeren human hybrids or bigfoot human hybrids shows up t*ratophilia eroticas written by middle aged woman...

#cryptozoology #anthropology #genus homo #hominins #great apes #Australopithecus #paranthropus #gigantopithecus #censored so it doesn't appear on searches for that word

[ladylolth]

Paranthropus sexual dimorphism is how terfs think gender works

#this will be funny to like four people on tumble #-my roommate #paranthropus #anthropology #mine #grr woman small and gracile man big and robust

[prose2passion]

Along the shores of Africa’s Lake Victoria in Kenya roughly 2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos and pound plant material, according to new research led by an international team of scientists. The study presents what are likely to be the oldest examples of a hugely important stone-age innovation known to scientists as the Oldowan toolkit, as well as the oldest evidence of hominins consuming very large animals. Excavations at the site, named Nyayanga and located on the Homa Peninsula in western Kenya, also produced a pair of massive molars belonging to the human species’ close evolutionary relative Paranthropus. The teeth are the oldest fossilized Paranthropus remains yet found, and their presence at a site loaded with stone tools raises intriguing questions about which human ancestor made those tools.

#science #human evoloution #paranthropus #stone tools

[ancientorigins]

An extinct species of hominin, Paranthropus, may have created the oldest known stone tools on Earth! A multi-year excavation in Kenya discovered tools and molars belonging to Paranthropus, challenging the long-held belief that only Homo genus could make stone tools.

#Oldowan #tools #lithics #Pliocene #Paranthropus #ancient #history #ancient origins

[n8thegr8-stickanime]

Powerless Earthlings

#mydo #マアイド #unicorn mantis #taco #paranthropus #feijao #saiyan #earthling #my art #tradigital #dragon ball oc #dbd

[dilfsisko]

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

#els.txt #skin picking cw #so it touch it and go ow! and then i touch it again and i go ow! #and the cycle repeats #i would have been the MOST popular paranthropus boisei bitch. i would have the grooming skills of a god. #ability to spot a mite from a mile a fucking way

[skyradiant]

20th anniversary of the second episode of Walking With Cavemen, “Blood Brothers.”  It first aired April 3rd, 2003.

#walking with cavemen #walking with #paranthropus #homo habilis #pleistocene epoch #return to monke #mine #q

[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.

#embroidery #handembroidery #skull #anthropology #Paranthropus boisei #handmade