A partial Paranthropus boisei skeleton was discovered and excavated in Kenya between 2019 and 2021, in sediment deposits dating to around 1.5 million years ago.
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- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09594-8 (nature.com)
- https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/science/fossil-kenya-extinct-human-hand (cnn.com)
- https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/new-fossil-of-an-ancient-human-relative-shows-it-could-grip-and-had-surprising-dexterity/ (news.stonybrook.edu)
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