#megadontism

[er-cryptid]

Paranthropus Aethiopicus

-- lived in Eastern Africa      -- Turkana basin      -- southern Ethiopia

-- lived about 2.7 to 2.3 million years ago

-- very few remains have been found

-- earliest known robust australopithecine

-- had a strongly protruding face

-- had large megadont teeth

-- had a powerful jaw

-- had a well-developed sagittal crest on top of the skull

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[rhubarbes]

ArtStation - Bangkok XXIII - Megadonts, by Julien Gauthier

[the-man-who-sold-za-warudo]

M E G A N U T

MEGADONT

[incorrigiblyindecent]

So here is a trip

I took an anthro class and we dealt with identifying primate skulls, including those of australopithocines and the parathropus genus, of which I can only recall megadont teeth and nuchal crest at the moment. It was very cool. I suggest taking a class like this if you like biology and/or history.

However, it did leave me many times wondering this exact question:

WHOSE FUCKING ANCESTOR'S SKULL AND/OR MANDIBLE AM I HOLDING IN MY FUCKING HANDS???

These are our genetic ancestors. Someone, somewhere, is related to the poor specimen that was DROPPED ON THE FLOOR and NEARLY BROKE.

I hope that it was the person who dropped the skull. Letting down their family millions of years later.