Paranthropus_skull (IMAGE)

University of the Witwatersrand

Paranthropus_skull

Caption

A fossil leopard lower jawbone next to a skull fragment of a juvenile Paranthropus robustus. Note the two punctures in the skull, which match the spacing of the tips of the leopard's fangs—implying that this unfortunate hominin child was killed and eaten by a leopard. 

Credit

Jason L. Heaton

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Use permitted only in connection with press materials related to the article “First Articulating Os Coxae, Femur, and Tibia of a Small Adult Hominid from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa”, Journal of Human Evolution

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