{"id":116575,"date":"2020-12-02T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T05:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/discovery-of-two-million-year-old-skull-in-south-africa-throws-new-light-on-human-evolution"},"modified":"2020-12-02T21:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T05:23:36","slug":"discovery-of-two-million-year-old-skull-in-south-africa-throws-new-light-on-human-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/discovery-of-two-million-year-old-skull-in-south-africa-throws-new-light-on-human-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of two-million-year-old skull in South Africa throws new light on human evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-of-two-million-year-old-skull-in-south-africa-throws-new-light-on-human-evolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fossil was a male <i>Paranthropus robustus<\/i>, a species that existed alongside our early human ancestors as a \u2018cousin species\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Academics from La Trobe University\u2019s Archaeology Department in Melbourne, Australia led the excavation and reconstruction of the large-toothed rare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/skull-washes-found-beach-lincolnshire-dog-seal-alien-a9073296.html\">skull<\/a> from the Drimolen Main Quarry north of Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers described the fossil \u2014 that was found in 2018 on South African Father\u2019s Day (June 20) \u2014 as exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fossil was a male Paranthropus robustus, a species that existed alongside our early human ancestors as a \u2018cousin species\u2019. Academics from La Trobe University\u2019s Archaeology Department in Melbourne, Australia led the excavation and reconstruction of the large-toothed rare skull from the Drimolen Main Quarry north of Johannesburg, South Africa. Researchers described the fossil \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}