John does it again
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 [...]
Giant Crocodile Skull
This is probably the largest fossil specimen found and collected in recent years. This is the massive skull and mandible of a crocodile, some [...]
Croc and hippo in sandstone
The past few weeks have been very busy for both the crew and the collection team; initially we were concentrating in Area 10. While [...]
Latest images from the west side camp at Turkwel
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 [...]
Hominin teeth at the start of the season
Here is a report from our first few days in the field. We started the season returning to area 10, where we were working [...]
Preparation for the Field
We have begun the field season and therefore Sunday was a busy day spent going over the modern bone collection and the hominin casts [...]
First-ever cast of ‘Hobbit’ unveiled at Stony Brook University
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 [...]
From Turkwel, end of February
Some more images of the building progress have just come in. Windows are being put in to the buildings now and the plastering has [...]
Origin of Rift Valley Ecosystems Project
Origin of Rift Valley Ecosystems (ORVE) is a research program comprising a number of projects working on both sides of Lake Turkana. Three ORVE [...]
Drilling Deep for Human Origins
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 [...]
Reconnaissance of Late Cretaceous sediments in the Turkana Basin
During the summer of 2008, Turkana Basin Institute scientists Erik Seiffert and Joe Sertich joined scientists from the National Museums of Kenya for a [...]