But it didn’t walk alone. The most stunning example of this fact is the Koobi Fora footprints found in northwest Kenya. First discovered in 2021 and dating back 1.5 million years to the ...

A recent discovery in Kenya’s Koobi Fora region has given scientists a rare glimpse into the distant past, raising new ...

Discovered at the Koobi Fora site near Lake Turkana, these footprints provide the first physical evidence that these distinct species shared the same landscape, raising intriguing questions about ...

I study early human evolution, predominantly in Africa during the time period between 1 and 4 million years ago. At the heart of this research are hominin fossils newly discovered during fieldwork of ...

National Geographic Explorer at Large Louise Leakey directs expeditions at the Koobi Fora Research Project in northern Kenya’s Turkana Basin. A third-generation paleoanthropologist, Louise ...