Stone Age axe dating back 1.3 million years unearthed in Morocco

al jazerra Via Msn ^ | 28 Jul 2021 | staff

[blueplum]

Homo habilis? The Handyman! of course!

thank you, I just learned what a homo habilis was nicknamed, but then I found rudolfensis, which (who?) I’d also never heard of

“While scientists used to think that H. habilis was the ancestor of Homo erectus, recent discoveries in 2000 of a relatively late 1.44 million-year-old Homo habilis (KNM-ER 42703) and a relatively early 1.55 million-year-old H. erectus (KNM-ER 42700) from the same area of northern Kenya (Ileret, Lake Turkana) challenged the conventional view that these species evolved one after the other. Instead, this evidence - along with other fossils - demonstrate that they co-existed in Eastern Africa for almost half a million years.”
https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-habilis

Originally considered to be H. habilis, the ways in which H. rudolfensis differs is in its larger braincase, longer face, and larger molar and premolar teeth. Due to the last two features, though, some scientists still wonder whether this species might better be considered an Australopithecus, although one with a large brain!... While their teeth were only slightly smaller than those seen in robust australopithecines, H. rudolfensis didn’t have the heavily-built jaw and strong jaw muscle attachments seen in robust early humans....
https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-rudolfensis

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Oh, they finally found Helen Thomas!!

[IgnorerOfLiberals]

They just make it up. Just like when you go to a National Park and they have signs everywhere saying billions of years.

[CrippledRN]

No they didn’t find her, just her kitchenware from her starter house.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks a fool in paradise.

[M Kehoe]

That’s one scary dude.

What? Does he have a package between his legs?

Don’t touch my junk, man.

5.56mm

[Red Badger]