Discovery of 1.43 million-year-old Paranthropus boisei footprints in Kenya

Researchers identified 21 footprints attributed to Paranthropus boisei near Lake Turkana, providing rare behavioral and anatomical data for a species previously known primarily from cranial fossils. This discovery offers new evidence regarding the group's social structure and locomotion, marking a significant expansion of the fossil record for this evolutionary lineage.