leopard-chewed_edge (IMAGE)

University of the Witwatersrand

leopard-chewed_edge

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The newly described, leopard-chewed Paranthropus robustus hip bone fossil, superimposed on an outline of a complete hominin hip bone to show the extent of the chewing damage on it. 

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Jason L. Heaton

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