A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

The discovery of Kenyanthropus platyops in Kenya’s Lake Turkana region has forced scientists to rethink the human lineage.

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Google Doodle has reminded us that we are an evolution of the initial species that lived on Earth and that humans are from the "Homo Erectus" line. In 1984, researchers have found traces of skeleton ...

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by ...

In northern Kenya, where the ground is arid, the sun is hot, and water is a daily grind, the people have created a life that has endured for centuries. Their territory extends into Uganda, South Sudan ...

Through a collaboration between U.S. and Kenyan researchers and Turkana communities of northern Kenya, scientists have uncovered key genetic adaptations underlying survival in hot and dry environments ...

President William Ruto has announced plans to establish the Home of Human Origins Museum and Science Park in Turkana County. He spoke during the Tobong’u Lore Festival in Lodwar on Friday, October 25.

US and Kenyan researchers have collaborated on a study that has revealed more about genetic adaptations in people that have occurred because of environmental pressures. This effort focused on people ...

Along the dry shores of northern Kenya, a long turquoise lake quietly records the tug of deep forces. Lake Turkana looks ...

We tend to think earthquakes are predominantly driven by deep-Earth forces. But in Kenya’s Lake Turkana Rift, researchers ...