When ecologist Dr. Derek Lee first spotted Omo, a snow-white, 15-month-old giraffe with a rare condition called leucism, he was concerned for her safety. “The first year of life is very ...

195,000 years ago, Omo-1 was a hunter prowling the east African savanna. Omo-1 died while still in his twenties, but he is the oldest member of our species found anywhere in the world. His remains ...

Years ago in Orlando, Ryan Ratino was fueling the rocket that would launch him into other markets, logging time in places like Waldorf Astoria’s Bull & Bear and Todd English’s BlueZoo at the ...

This past week, I returned from a remarkable trip along the Omo River in the remote southwestern region of Ethiopia. Traveling through this amazing country, you quickly realize that many North ...

A prehistoric site near Lake Turkana, the lower valley of the Omo is renowned the world over. The discovery of many fossils there, especially Homo gracilis, has been of fundamental importance in the ...