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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 ...
Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...
The shift to bipedality is only beginning to emerge in Ardi because there are characteristics in Ardi's pelvis that are both found in all later hominids and characteristics that are found in extant African apes. [16] A characteristic that is found in Ardi and in all later hominids is a separate growth site for the anterior inferior iliac spine ...
Also displayed are full-sized casts of important fossils, including the 3.2-million-year-old Lucy skeleton and the 1.7-million-year-old Turkana Boy, and Homo erectus specimens including a cast of Peking Man. [2]
(Turkana Boy) 1.60 Homo ergaster (a.k.a. African Homo erectus) 1984 Lake Turkana (West Lake Turkana), Kenya: Kamoya Kimeu: Kenya National Museum Peninj Mandible: 1.50 Paranthropus boisei: 1964 Tanzania: Richard Leakey: Ileret Footprints 1.50 Homo erectus: 2007-2014 Ileret, Kenya: KNM-ER 992: 1.50 Homo ergaster (a.k.a. African Homo erectus) 1971 ...
Whereas Lucy, a famous Australopithecus fossil, would only have been about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) tall at her death, Turkana Boy was about 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) tall and would probably have reached 1.82 m (6 ft) or more if he had survived to adulthood. [38]
The fossil is regarded by its describers as shedding light on a stage of human evolution about which little was known, more than a million years before Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), the iconic early human ancestor candidate who lived 3.2 million years ago, and was discovered in 1974 just 74 km (46 mi) away from Ardi's discovery site.
Lake Turkana: An infantile cranium. Ardi [15] ARA-VP-6/500 National Museums of Kenya: Ardipithecus ramidus: 4.4 mya Aramis: A partial skeleton, possibly a female. The Black Skull [16] KNM-WT 17000 National Museums of Kenya [2] Paranthropus aethiopicus: 2.5 mya Nachukui Formation: A cranium. Dear Boy, [17] Zinj [18] OH 5 Paranthropus boisei: 1.8 ...