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| MLA Full: | "Your Extinct Cousin LOVED Eating Grass." YouTube, uploaded by SciShow, 13 April 2026, www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD7E-gf74w0. |
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We've all got that one cousin who doesn't look like the rest of the family, and our ancestors were no exception. Meet Paranthropus, the group of hominins so strange that researchers nicknamed one of them Nutcracker Man. Here's the whole story of our weirdest looking ancestors.
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