For millions of years, eastern Africa was a crucible of human evolution, hosting a complex interplay of species. Fossilized footprints discovered near Lake Turkana in Kenya have provided an ...

The large-toothed Lake Turkana robber, a fish species found in Lake Turkana in Kenya, is among those threatened with extinction in the world. According to a new study by International Union for ...

Anthropologist Prof Craig Feibel has spent more than 40 years studying the fossil-rich lands of northern Kenya and found the footprints near Lake Turkana.

Anthropologists have said human beings evolved in a straight line from Homo habilis to Homo erectus to us, Homo sapiens, over two million years. But fossil bones found in 2000 near Lake Turkana in ...

The most saline of Africa's large lakes, Turkana is an outstanding laboratory for the study of plant and animal communities. The three National Parks serve as a stopover for migrant waterfowl and are ...

Since losing most of his livestock in a recent drought, herder Angelech Losoro has traded the parched lands of northwestern Kenya for the waters of nearby Lake Turkana, where he now makes a living ...

This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a hot spring morning, Galte Nyemeto stood by the shore of Lake Turkana scanning for crocodiles. The water was ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A woman quenches her thirst along the shores of Lake Turkana. [File, Standard] The IUCN ...