Discover the controversies surrounding this robust australopithecine and gather facts about its morphology at this guide.

View and rotate an image of an Australopithecines bosei, or Paranthropus bosei, skull. Compare it to that of a modern human.

Read about the discovery of the nearly complete 1.4 million-year-old skull of Australopithecus boisei at Konso in southern Ethiopia.

View an artist's estimation of what Boisei might have looked like and find details on their bone morphology.