Koobi Fora is an archeological site on the east side of Lake Turkana in Eastern Africa. Richard Leakey was the first to excavate this site, and he found over four hundred fossils there. Among those found were Australopithecene and early Homo remains. This site has the most varied human remains anywhere in the world. The remains found include a complete skeleton, skulls, lower jaw bones, leg and arm fragments, and many teeth. Many stone tools (Including Oldowan Chopper Cores) that were used to cut the meat off of bones were also found at this site. The most notorious of the finds was the fossil of the Homo habilis which is thought to be a direct ancestor of man, living over two million years ago. View over Lake Turkana Lake Turkana, formerly known as Lake Rudolf, is a lake in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya (although the far northern end of the lake crosses into Ethiopia), which covers a surface area of 6405 km² (2473 mi²), making it the worlds largest permanent desert... A world map showing the continent of Africa. ... In 1977, Richard Leakey was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. ... A fossil Ammonite Fossils are the mineralized remains of animals or plants or other traces such as footprints. ... Species †A. afarensis (Lucy) †A. africanus †A. anamensis †A. bahrelghazali †A. garhi Formerly Australopithecus, now Paranthropus †††For the song Australopithecus by Modest Mouse, see Sad Sappy Sucker. ... Species Homo sapiens sapiens See text for extinct species. ... Binomial name †Homo habilis Leakey et al, 1964 Homo habilis (IPA ) (handy man, skillful person) is a species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2. ...
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