Paranthropus have previously been dubbed the 'nutcracker men' because of their extremely big jaws, robust skull bones and large molar teeth. They walked on two legs, but had smaller brains than ...

boisei individual, it shows that they walked bipedally, says Wiseman. While skulls, arm and leg bones have been attributed to Paranthropus, she says, “we have never found a skull in association ...

A new study has unveiled fossilised footprints from two ancient human species, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, that coexisted in northern Kenya approximately 1.5 million years ago.

Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, two contemporaneous hominins, walked the same terrain, suggesting overlapping lifestyles and possible interactions as they evaded predators and sought food.

The skull, reconstructed from more than 150 separate ... robust human ancestor Paranthropus robustus and a third, distinctive species called Australopithecus sediba. "We don't yet know whether ...