In this forsaken area in Turkana, lies a gem in the country’s history. The world turned its attention to the area, Fort Ternan, in 1961 when Dr Louis Leakey discovered the fossil of “a very early ...

In British India a generation ago, scientists unearthed two small fossils that consisted of no more than partial jawbones and a few teeth. For many years, they gathered dust—one in London’s British ...