Researchers found a partial skeleton dated to 1.34 million years (Paranthropus boisei) in north Tanzania. The bones suggest the creature was more ruggedly built than previously thought.

Researchers found a partial skeleton dated to 1.34 million years (Paranthropus boisei) in north Tanzania. The bones suggest the creature was more ruggedly built than previously thought.

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.

Pictured above is a fossil footprint believed to have been created by a hominin species known as Paranthropus boisei, one of 12 such footprints unearthed in Kenya that date back 1.5 million years.

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A remarkable discovery in northern Kenya has provided the first direct evidence that two early human relatives, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, lived in the same environment 1.5 million ...

A new study describes ancient footprints from the species Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei that were left near a lake in Kenya within hours or days of one another.

Two species in the Paranthropus genus of early hominins, P. aethiopicus and P. boisei, co-existed for some time with early Homo species including H. ergaster, but seem to have had different diets ...

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It’s not hard to understand why Paranthropus boisei is often called the Nutcracker Man.The hominid’s massive molars and enormous jaw make it seem pretty obvious that the species spent a lot of ...

Paranthropus boisei is, in evolutionary terms, sort of a great-uncle of modern humans. Around 2.5 million years ago, our common ancestors the Australopithecines split into two new genuses, ...

Pictured above is a fossil footprint believed to have been created by a hominin species known as Paranthropus boisei, one of 12 such footprints unearthed in Kenya that date back 1.5 million years ...