Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought

 

Illustration of Paranthropus hominins, which lived between 2.7 and 1.4 million years ago. Image courtesy of John Bavaro Fine Art/Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus of strong-jawed hominins that lived around 2 million years ago, and suggests they lived in a range of habitats.

For the first time, the remains of ancient hominins called Paranthropus have been found in the remote Afar region of Ethiopia. The discovery dramatically expands the area over which Paranthropus roamed, and suggests they lived in a wide range of ecosystems.

Paranthropus remains are known from eastern and southern Africa, between 2.7 and 1.4 million years ago. They are thought to be closely related to Homo, the group that includes modern humans and Neanderthals. They may have evolved from earlier hominins called Australopithecus.

That is the evolutionary tale of the fossil. We believe that it was crated that way. And the tale of millions of years is also fictional.

 Source:

Michael Marshall 2026 Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought | New Scientist 21 January

Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin

 

The thigh and shin bones of Paranthropus robustus. Image courtesy of Jason L. Heaton

Joel Kontinen

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg belonging to a strikingly small member of the group. 

What do people say about the ape men hypothesis?. According to Darwinists who think that we evolved from ape like creatures, the answer is yes, but according  to Bible believing scientist, it is no.

According to Darwinists,  “ a fossilised left leg unearthed in South Africa belongs to one of the smallest adult hominins ever discovered – smaller even than the so-called “hobbit”, Homo floresiensis.

The diminutive hominin was a member of the species Paranthropus robustus. This was one of several species of Paranthropus, a group of ape-like hominins that shared the African landscape with the earliest representatives of our human genus, Homo, between about 2.7 and 1.2 million years ago. Paranthropus had heavily build  skulls that housed small brains and large teeth.”

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 Colin Barras 2025 Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Paranthropus cousin | New Scientist 31 March 

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Stone tools were used by an ape man in Kenya.

 

Image courtesy of  Reuters

Joel Kontinen

A set of stone tools found in Kenya is the oldest of its kind, and one of the oldest known to have been made by so called ancient hominins. The find adds to the evidence for widespread tool use relatively early in human evolution.

Darwinians claim that the artefacts were found with two teeth belonging to what they call hominins called Paranthropus. They weren’t thought to make tools because their teeth were well-suited to chewing food, but the new find suggests they actually did make and use stone tools.

Evolutionists have found a fossil Paranthropus robustus that shows that males and females were of equal sixe and that P. robustus was a large toothed, small-brained hominin.

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 Marshall, Michael, 2023,  Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools, Nëw Scientist, 9 February.