Just days after discovering the first hominid of the season in area 10, John seems to have done it again.The field crew moved into a new area and it was not long before he spoted a tooth lying on the surface. Its hard to spot these fossils as you can see from the picture below, [...]
This is probably the largest fossil specimen found and collected in recent years. This is the massive skull and mandible of a crocodile, some 1.8 million years old. It appears to have its mouth tightly shut and could so easily have belonged o one of the fierce and enormous river crocodiles on the Omo River [...]
The past few weeks have been very busy for both the crew and the collection team; initially we were concentrating in Area 10. While we were there we were able to collect a large sand stone block which contained a partial hippo skull with the skull of a slender snouted crocodile- Euthecodon. These were cemented [...]
The following images show the construction progress at TBI's Turkwel research facility. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. The following images show the construction progress at TBI's Turkwel research facility. Return to TBI Posts posts
Here is a report from our first few days in the field. We started the season returning to area 10, where we were working in 2007. There were some fossils that remained to be collected there and so we took the opportunity to work the first week here as it is not far from the [...]
We have begun the field season and therefore Sunday was a busy day spent going over the modern bone collection and the hominin casts that are at the TBI field station. Francis and Meave Leakey ran an excellent refersher class for us preparing us well for finding fossils in the field. We had verious identification [...]
World-Renowned Anthropologist Richard Leakey Convenes Top Researchers To Discuss 'Flo,' The Enigmatic 'Hobbit' You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. World-Renowned Anthropologist Richard Leakey Convenes Top Researchers To Discuss 'Flo,' The Enigmatic 'Hobbit' Image: Skull of Homo floresiensis. Photo credit: Michael J. Morwood. As the debate rages on about whether Homo floresiensis – [...]
Some more images of the building progress have just come in. Windows are being put in to the buildings now and the plastering has begun on the outside walls. You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. Some more images of the building progress have just come in. Windows are being put in to [...]
Origin of Rift Valley Ecosystems (ORVE) is a research program comprising a number of projects working on both sides of Lake Turkana. Three ORVE projects are currently underway; two on the west side of the lake (Losodok/Nakwai, Tab Rasmussen) and (Kalodirr/Moruorot, James Rossie), and one on the east (Buluk, Ellen Miller). You can also view [...]
The objective of this project is to obtain sediment cores, covering key time intervals, from several of the world’s most important fossil hominin and early Paleolithic artifact sites, located in Kenya and Ethiopia; ultimately the information gleaned from cores will address questions about the role of environmental forces in shaping human evolution. You can also [...]
During the summer of 2008, Turkana Basin Institute scientists Erik Seiffert and Joe Sertich joined scientists from the National Museums of Kenya for a return trip to the Turkana Basin to search for more complete fossils from known sites, and to explore for new fossil localities in a series of sediments exposed west of Lake [...]