The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.

SWARTKRANS CAVE, SOUTH AFRICA—Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved from the Swartkrans Cave in South Africa’s ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A fragment of a hip bone from the newly discovered P. robustus skeleton from Swartkrans, South ...