Another list to celebrate the end of 2019! The little tradition on this blog is to collect my favorite hominin #FossilFriday tweets of the year, from number 10 to 1. This is the fifth year of this list!

What is a ‘FossilFriday’? Every Friday, people post pics of their favorite fossils using the hashtag #FossilFriday, mainly on Twitter. This can be about famous specimens, odd fossils, museum collections, rare photos, scientific papers or blog posts. I love to join it & tweet about hominin fossils. One more time, let’s start!

10. Feeding the debates about the dawn of ‘modern’ speech. By Tom O’Mahoney:

9.  John Hawks completed a nice ‘inktober’ and posted an ink drawing about evolution every day of October:

8. Best mandible ever found for Homo rudolfensis. By Mario García Bartual:

7. Why was Ardipithecus kadabba bipedal 5 million years ago? By Zach Cofran:

6. Another great fossil history picture shared by Paige Madison:

5. A very close view on Denisova cave’s famous layer 11, by Adam Van Arsdale:

4. 2019 was another good year to discuss about the origin of our species. These two old fossils are always part of the debate. And Chris Stringer never missed a FossilFriday:

3. More amazing news on the Neandertal group from El Sidron cave. By MNCN Collecciones:

2. Really odd picture of Mrs. Ples. By Andy I. R. Herries:

1. And finally… Meet laser-sediba! By Ashley Kruger:

Want more? Check out the lists from previous years:

2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014

Merry Christmas and Happy 2020!