The Turkana Basin Field School proceeds apace. Today the palaeontology module began with Prof Doug Boyer of Duke University who arrived at TBI yesterday.
Prof Doug Boyer of Duke University
One of the first exercises was putting the earth’s history and timeline into perspective.
It all started with a bang a long, long time ago…
Students did this using rolls of toilet-paper, to illustrate some of the major events in the earth and evolution of life.
Evelyn and Kayla working on their timeline
There were some major events that took place:
Photosynthesis – one of the key steps for life to develop further
Here come the mammals and dinosaurs!
Dinosaurs and cute little mammals!
Later came the birds:
Lorraine adds birds to the earth’s timeline
And finally, just in the nick of time, the rest of ‘US’!
More from the TBI Field School soon!
