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| Australopithecus boisei 3D Model |
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| Model's Description: Australopithecus boisei 3d model contains 763,246 polygons and 381,621 vertices. The Australopithecus boisei skull, is the most famous fossil from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. OH 5 was discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959 and originally classified as Zinjanthropus boisei by L. Leakey in Nature later that year. The accepted genus name has since changed to Australopithecus, this fossil is also know by the genus name Paranthropus. This discovery spurred paleoanthropology toward a modern, multidisciplinary approach, and focused paleoanthropologists’ attention on East Africa. Unique in hominid evolution, A. boisei’s massive skull features a wide, concave face, enormous, flat molars (about 4 times as big as modern H. sapiens) and cranial adaptations for powerful chewing, hence its nickname, Nutcracker Man. Note the sagittal crest and extremely large area for muscle attachments on the zygomatic arch. The thick jaw allowed for the species’ exceptional chewing capabilities. Cranial capacity of this individual is 530 cc |
| Model's Textures: (1) RGB Texture #1 |
| Keywords: replica fossil paleontology scann3d australopithecus skull australopithecus-boisei fossil-hominins |
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