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(MENAFN- The Conversation) Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...

Paranthropus boisei skull. Credit: Guérin Nicolas – CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Fossils of hands and feet belonging to an extinct human relative that lived about 1.52 million years ago offer ...

Researchers Carrie Mongle and Meave Leakey discuss Paranthropus boisei hand fossils, held in the cases pictured, at the Turkana Basin Institute research station in Ileret, Kenya, in this undated ...