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Turkana Boy, also called Nariokotome Boy, is the name given to fossil KNM-WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus youth who lived 1.5 to 1.6 million years ago. This specimen is the most complete early hominin skeleton ever found. [1] It was discovered in 1984 by Kamoya Kimeu on the bank of the Nariokotome River near Lake Turkana ...
Turkana Boy, discovered by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of the Leakeys' team, in 1984, was the nearly complete skeleton of a Homo ergaster (though some, including Leakey, call it erectus) who died 1.6 million years ago at about age 9–12. [41]
Turkana Boy was the first discovered comprehensively preserved specimen of H. ergaster/erectus found and constitutes an important fossil in establishing the differences and similarities between early Homo and modern humans. [14]
Walker was a member of the team led by Richard Leakey responsible for the 1984 discovery of the skeleton of the so-called Turkana Boy, [7] and in 1985 Walker himself discovered the Black Skull [8] [9] near Lake Turkana in Kenya. [10]
A missing boy has been found alive after spending nearly a week alone in a northern Zimbabwe game park filled with lions, elephants and other wild animals, local officials said. On Wednesday, Jan ...
Kimeu accompanied him to the Omo River and Lake Rudolf (now Lake Turkana) in 1967. He quickly became Richard Leakey's right-hand man, assuming control of field operations in Leakey's absence. He was known by colleagues as, Mr. Kamoya. In 1977, he became the National Museums of Kenya's curator for all prehistoric sites in Kenya. [2]
A missing, nonverbal 8-year-old boy was found deceased in a lake in Texas over the weekend, authorities said. Ryan Akabusi was last seen in Richmond, a suburb of Houston, on Saturday around 4:30 a ...
Authorities in New York have arrested a man in connection with the disappearance of a 14-year-old girl who has since been found. Emmarae Gervasi disappeared from Suffolk County, N.Y., on Dec. 8 ...