Beloved singer/songwriter Paul Simon takes the stage for a special event in New York City to support Richard Leakey's vision for the Turkana Basin Institute. ...

This week, students will be learning al about the differences among living plants and their adaptations.  Did you know that there are many more plants with toothed leaves in colder climates and that most ...

The Field School is not all work; there is also some time to relax. On Sunday students went to Eliye Springs on the sandy shores of Lake Turkana. This little “resort” features a small restaurant with ...

Students went on a field trip to Kalodir, a site where with exposed sediments that are over 17 million years old.  After chipping away sediments students recovered impressions of leaves and other plant ...

The Nakechichok Women's Group continue to work hard on their shamba to meet their families needs, increase their income and self reliance.       While they celebrate ...

Time is flying – the forth module kicked off Monday. Students are learning about the evolution of vertebrates (animals with a backbone) and how to identify animal fossils.  Students are also learning ...

This Sunday students went to visit a local school.  Of course, Turkana students have off on Sundays too, but many of the 176 children and teachers came to welcome the TBI Field School students. TBI donated ...

This week students have been learning about our more recent ancestors that lived over the past 2 million years.  At around 1.8 million years there were six or more different species of early human-like ...

Yesterday students finally got to look at their fossils in more detail.  With the help of instructor Fred Grine and Meave Leakey, students did their best to identify, and piece together, the often very ...

On Saturday morning, students went on a short walk to a fossil site just outside TBI.  Here, Dr. Meave Leakey taught three different methods of locating fossils.  The students had great fun and only ...