A New Face in the Hominin Family Tree: Meet Paranthropus capensis, the Mysterious Cousin of Early Humans
A fossil misidentified for decades reveals a previously unknown species of Paranthropus in South Africa
The Curious Case of SK 15: A Fossil in Taxonomic Limbo
In 19491, a hominin mandible was unearthed from the Swartkrans cave system in South Africa. Dubbed SK 15, the fossil spent the next 75 years being shuffled between taxonomic categories like an unsolved puzzle. Originally identified as Telanthropus capensis, it was later reassigned to Homo ergaster, oc…
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