STUDENT AND YOUTH ADVENTURE SPECIAL IN KENYA:
Kenya is well known for the many fossil sites found in the Rift Valley. Research in the Paleontology Department is focused on these sites with a view to reconstruct the evolutionary history of our own and other animal species. Past climatic and environmental changes led to the evolution of the many different plant and animal species in East Africa today. Numerous important fossil specimens collected over the years comprise an impressive national collection. The department is responsible for the documentation of these fossils, the majority of which range in age between twenty and one million years. Scientists from all over the world come to study them and learn about the evolutionary history of our own species, Homo sapiens, and the prevailing climates and resultant ecology that provided habitats for plants and animals that lived in this region in