#homonids

[thatforestprince]

Which Great Ape are Humans most closely related to?

Chimpanzees and Bonobos (genus Pan)

Orangutans (genus Pongo)

Gorillas (genus Gorilla)

Voting ended onDec 21, 2025

i'm testing tumblr users knowledge of human evolution so if you google it i will cry

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

A Family’s Bizarre Encounters with the Bigfoot of Japan | Mysterious Universe

Reports of mysterious hairy hominids originate from a wide range of countries, locales, and cultures, from all corners of the globe. They go by many names and come in many shapes and sizes, but whether they are called Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Almas, Orang Pendek, or any of their other myriad names, one thing that these hairy... Read more »

[74656xdavid]

Child fossil find in South Africa sheds light on enigmatic hominids

Fossils found deep in a South African cave formed part of a hominid child's skull, apparently left on an alcove by fellow members of her spe

[aquaticpaleo]

ok since people cant figure it out in the reblogs, discuss:

what species is this?

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

The Maasai Legend Behind Ancient Hominin Footprints in Tanzania

In 1976 paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey and other scientists reported that they’d found ancient hominin footprints at a site in Laetoli, northeastern Tanzania.

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

'Tek Tek': Cambodia's Bigfoot

During the Vietnam War, American soldiers referred to an often-seen hominid as the 'Rock Ape.' I've heard many encounter accounts of reddish hair-covered primates that stood 4-6 ft. tall sneaking through the jungle at night. Some of these soldiers even claimed to have killed these primates. Was the 'Rock Ape' a reality or a result of jungle warfare? Regardless of the claims, people had been seeing something in these thick forests prior to the war. The Nguoi Rung (Forest People), sometimes known as the 'Batutut' or 'Ujit,' are hairy, ape-like hominids that the locals say inhabit the dense jungles of Vietnam, especially the Three Forests region, where Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos converge. Descriptions vary in size, with fur ranging from grey to brown to a reddish color, but the creature is always said to walk in an upright, bipedal position. By 1974, sightings had become so frequent that General Hoang Minh Thao, commander of North Vietnamese forces in the Central Highlands, ordered a scientific survey of the area in an attempt to locate them. While an actual Nguoi Rung could not be located, the scientists did make a plaster cast of a suspiciously wide footprint.

[midnight-silver]

Evidence of humans in North America 130,000 years ago? Stone tools found among the remains of a mastodon suggest that humans may have been in North America much earlier than previously thought - over 100,000 years earlier!

The Cerutti Mastodon Site has been under study since its discovery in 1992. Among the mastodon tusks and bone fragments, researchers have also found stones bearing what seems to be the normal wear-and-tear of early homonid stone tools found elsewhere in the world. An ordinary find made extraordinary by the supposed age of the site - roughly 130,000 years old. Previous estimates have placed the arrival of humans to North America around 15,000 years ago.  

Further study is needed to confirm the find, but it has the potential to completely change our understanding of how and when the first humans came to North America.

(Full article available through link).

[jerwilliams]

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