The last 40 years of paleontological research in the Turkana basin have yeilded hundreds of important plant and animal fossils, including those of ancestral human forms.
Listed below are several well-known hominin finds:
KNM-WT 40000: About This FossilFossils | Justin Ledogar | Saturday, 2 January 2010  The KNM-WT 40000 cranium is the type specimen of Kenyanthropus platyops, a recently described hominin taxon from the Middle Pliocene of East Africa. The discovery of Kenyanth... Details |
KNM-WT 17000: about this fossilFossils | Justin Ledogar | Saturday, 2 January 2010  KNM-WT 17000 is an astonishingly complete cranium from West Turkana that has figured strongly in debates over early hominin phylogeny. The fossil is commonly known as the “Black Skull” on account.... Details |
KNM-ER 3733: about this fossilFossils | Justin Ledogar | Saturday, 2 January 2010  In ecology, the principle of competitive exclusion posits that two species competing for the same resources cannot stably coexist and eventually one of the species will be forced out of the part... Details |
KNM-ER 1470: about this fossilFossils | Justin Ledogar | Saturday, 2 January 2010  The discovery of the KNM-ER 1470 cranium by a team led by Richard Leakey substantiated his father Louis Leakey’s claim that large-brained members of Homo existed in East Africa millions of...... Details |
KNM-KP 29281: About This FossilFossils | Justin Ledogar | Saturday, 2 January 2010  The KNM-KP 29281 mandible is the type specimen of Australopithecus anamensis, an early hominin species from the Early Pliocene of East Africa. Since the discovery of the mandible in 1994, nu...... Details |
KNM-ER 1813: about this fossilFossils | Justin Ledogar | Saturday, 2 January 2010  The discovery of the KNM-ER 1813 cranium at Koobi Fora a year after KNM-ER 1470 had been found ignited debates over the nature of the genus Homo. While these two specimen... Details |
KNM-WT 15000: about this fossilFossils | Justin Ledogar | Saturday, 2 January 2010  In the summer of 1984, Kamoya Kimeu discovered a small piece of a hominin cranium on a slope of a tributary of an ephemeral stream in West Turkana known as Nariokot... Details |
KNM-ER 406: about this fossilFossils | Justin Ledogar | Saturday, 2 January 2010  KNM-ER 406 is a nearly complete cranium of a male Paranthropus boisei. Due to the magnificent preservation of the specimen, it has factored largely in the morphological definition of males ..... Details |
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