The Chronicle
The Koobi Fora Research Project announce the discovery of new hand and foot fossils of Paranthropus, a distant cousin to humans, significantly extending our understanding of the evolution of tool use and bipedality within the human family tree
The team was scaled back in December as most of the team stopped to have a break. The camp was taken down and the vehicles had a service in Mwangombes workshop at the Turkana Basin
Back in the field with a new season's energy: rebuilding camp, a windstorm that nearly wrecked the dining tent, a monkey cranium with all its teeth, and the first in situ fossil from Section 25B.
Louise and Jeniffer visit Lee Berger's caves in South Africa — then Lee visits us. Plus: learning fossil preparation at TBI, a Land Rover resurrection, and a possible phalanx from the hominin level.
A new camp, a broken Land Rover, rain that stopped play, the first fossil from the excavation — and an evening watching Cave of Bones ahead of Lee Berger's visit.
From extensive sieving at Area 104 to wildlife encounters at dawn, chilli paste in camp, and a return to Ileret — two months of fieldwork at Koobi Fora.
Discovery, dust, and downpours — February brought us visitors by helicopter, a team from National Geographic, a melanistic serval cat, and some new old bones. More from out remarkable field season.
In 1968 Richard Leakey set up camp on a sandy spit on the eastern shores of Lake Turkana. More than 54 years later, the research project he founded continues to recover fossils that reshape our understanding of human origins.
New 2 million-year-old skeleton associated with a dentition of Homo habilis is the oldest and most complete known for that species
Fossil Footprints Offer Direct Evidence for Two Extinct Human Ancestors Sharing the same landscapes
Bridging the gap between scientific discovery and local stewardship in the Turkana Basin region.