Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

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 ...

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.