Dr. Herbert Basil Sutton Cooke (1915-2018) was a very prominent geologist and palaeontologist who sought to shed light on human evolution. Dr. Cooke, who spent his retirement in White Rock, BC, ...

Geologic Age Pliocene Notes Light gray plastic cast cranium of Olduvai Hominid 5 (OH 5), also known as "Nutcracker Man," from the species Paranthropus boisei. OH 5 is easily the most famous of the ...

Olduvai Hominid 5 (OH 5) is easily the most famous of the early human fossils found at Olduvai Gorge. It is a nearly complete cranium of an adult male P. boisei. Originally named Zinjanthropus boisei, ...

In the August 18 2015 speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, she said in part: “I had been taught, that the oldest fossil was found in Kenya, a place called Olduvai Gorge”.

A bone tool made from a 1.5-million-year-old elephant bone discovered at the Olduvai Gorge site in Tanzania is seen in this picture released on March 5, 2025.

Researchers excavating at a site in northern Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge have unearthed bone implements made by human ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This is around a million years earlier than ...

New discoveries made in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania by an international team led by Ignacio de la Torre, CSIC-Spanish National Research Council, push back the archaeological record of bone-tool ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped ...