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.”

 Source:

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

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Ancient Ape with 'Human Legs' and 'Orangutan Arms'

Image courtesy of Christoph Jäckle, fair use doctrine.


Joel Kontinen


“More than 11 million years ago, an oddball ape equipped with human-like legs and robust ape-like arms clambered across tree limbs, possibly escaping feline predators. That's the picture that scientists have gleaned about a new species of fossil ape discovered in Bavaria.”

The species is called Danuvius guggenmosi, named after Danuvius, the Celtic – Roman river god and after the man who found the place where they were found, Sigulf Guggenmos.

“Danuvius is like an ape and a hominin in one," study lead author Madelaine Böhme, a palaeontologist at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Germany.”

Evolutionists claim that while the fossil could hang from trees, just like the modern big apes, it did not walk its fingers were not as robust like one would have expected of big apes, that is, knuckle-walkers.
But the evidence is in the fossils, and we cannot know they were from the same species. It has often happened that the fossils of one species have begun to mix with another one.

The scientist concluded that the study was outlined in the November issue of the journal Nature.

Source:

Choi, Charles Q, 2019. Ancient Ape with 'Human Legs' and 'Orangutan Arms' Moved Like No Other Creature on Earth. Live Science (5 November).