In 1969, Richard Leakey was surveying the harsh, wind-shaped landscape of Koobi Fora in northern Kenya when an ordinary day of fieldwork turned into a major paleoanthropological discovery. Walking th… [+5921 chars]
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In 1969, a fossil hunter followed an eroded gully in northern Kenya: It revealed ancient skull fragments and helped establish Koobi Fora as one of the world’s most important fossil sites
Posted on June 21, 2026 at 