[Shalom Israel]

This image kills me. The white parts are conjectural; the dirty bit is what they actually found.

[Mikey_1962]

You're right. 90% of the skull is based on a really big Australopithicine.

[COBOL2Java]

This image kills me. The white parts are conjectural; the dirty bit is what they actually found.

Amazing, isn't it? I took a few anthropology courses in college, and the physical anthropologists DO use some very sophisticated analyses to draw out the "missing" parts (such as study the size and location of the points where tendon connects to bone to determine the size of the muscles), but yeah, I think a LOT goes to the imagination.

[KC_Conspirator]

Yes, I can't see how they get a whole race of giant apes out of just those teeth. Is there anything else they have except for the teeth? This puts a crimp in the whole big foot theory.

[xmission]

This image kills me. The white parts are conjectural; the dirty bit is what they actually found

Looks like Horse teeth to me. Maybe it was really an apehorsorous.
Like your name btw.

[Question_Assumptions]

What bothers me more is that they can now recreated entire extinct ecosystems through the wonders of computer animation and show them on education programs that depict the complex and unusual behavior of various extinct creatures. But what they don't tell anyone is that the entire reconstruction is based on a single bone fragment no bigger than your hand.

[LearsKent]

I guess the conjecture is that the eyeballs just rolled around in the socket unattached. Well, that condition usually is a plus for "interactions".