KNM-ER 732, a partial cranium of a female Paranthropus boisei has many characteristic P. boisei features. Most notable is the forward placed root of the zygomatic arch, resulting in a wide flat face.

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THE block of bone breccia in which the beautiful skull of Paranthropus was found has already yielded us the distal end of a humersus, the proximal end of an ulna and two toe bones. The matrix on ...

Paranthropus Aethiopicus and Paranthropus Boisei seemed to have lived in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania while Paranthropus Robustus seemed to have only lived in South Africa. More for You.

The first skull of a Paranthropus boisei individual was discovered by co-author Meave Leakey’s in-laws, Mary and Louis Leaky, in 1959 in Tanzania. In 2006, a team led by Sponheimer found that a cousin ...

Paranthropus robustus tooth chipping patterns do not support regular hard food mastication. Journal of Human Evolution , 2021; 158: 103044 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103044 Ian Towle, Carolina Loch.