Anna K. Behrensmeyer currently receives funding for her research from the Smithsonian Institution, the Turkana Basin Institute, and the Leakey Foundation. Fieldwork that discovered the first ...

That ancient lakeshore is part of the Koobi Fora fossil site. The revelation was made by fossilised footprints in the sand in the area that have preserved the unexpected and extraordinary moment.

Ancient footprints reveal that a thriving landscape 1.5 million years ago in what is now Kenya was able to accommodate two different species of hominin, living side by side. As Homo erectus and ...

A crew of paleontologists and excavators unearthed the footprints in 2021 near Lake Turkana, in northern Kenya, where they were buried beneath layers of sand and volcanic rock deposited around 1.5 ...

A stunning discovery of fossilized footprints pressed into soft mud preserved ... The team decided to rebury the tracks with fine sand until a detailed excavation was possible.

(Louise Leakey via AP) Scientists study fossil footprints for clues about co-existing species of early human ancestors at the excavation site on the eastern side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, in ...

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbours some 1.5 million years ago. The footprints were left in the mud by two different species ...

These early forerunners of Homo sapiens wandered in a landscape teeming with wildlife, including giant maribou storks that stood 6.5 feet tall.A stunning discovery of fossilized footprints pressed ...