Fossilized footprints discovered near Lake Turkana in Kenya have provided an unprecedented glimpse into the interactions between two ancient hominins: Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei.

Called Paranthropus capensis, it was a more slender member of the Paranthropus genus - a close relative of modern humans (homo sapiens). Paranthropus have previously been dubbed the ...

The new study revealed that the ancient jaw named SK 15 was originally unearthed in 1949 in a South African cave known as ...

Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei. Hatala tells Nature Africa that “These two species must have lived on the same immediate landscape at the same time, and they probably walked across this ...

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 ...

P boisei and P robustus. “Altogether, the results show that SK 15 unambiguously falls outside the variation of H ergaster and that it’s most compatible with the morphology of Paranthropus,” the ...

At the time Paranthropus was alive, the world had several hominins, or species on the evolutionary branch more closely related to humans than to chimps. Our genus, Homo, emerged at least 2.8 ...

Paranthropus boisei lived in Africa more than one million years ago and lived side-by-side with direct ancestors of humans. It has long been assumed that this species lived on a diet of nuts ...

It comes from a new species of the genus Paranthropus, nicknamed the “nutcracker man” due to the fossil’s massive size and huge molar teeth. Photos of the fossil jaw (Lazarus Kgasi ...