Exciting New Discoveries

This year has been groundbreaking! During seven months of fieldwork, our dedicated fossil hunters unearthed seven new hominin fossils, including a beautifully preserved Paranthropus boisei mandible. Revisiting sites from the 1970s, we meticulously reconstructed their exact locations using old photographs and field notes, uncovering fresh insights in the process. Again this year, we recovered several large fossils, including an elephant mandible, which was carefully jacketed it in plaster for transport to the Turkana Basin Institute. Other finds included baboon crania, and hippo and pig skulls, painting a vivid picture of life millions of years ago. Monica Bieli was the first of our female fossil hunters to find a hominin this year- we are so proud of her!