Turkana Human - Homo ergaster who lived 1.5 million years ago

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Turkana Human - Homo ergaster who lived 1.5 million years ago

Of all other google doodles, today's doodle is a bit different, depicting a doodle of a skeleton, which looks like a half human and half ape. The doodle is headlined, 'Celebrating the Turkana Human' and nothing else. So, let's see what we can find about this doodle. 

Turkana Boy, also called Nariokotome Boy, is the name given to the fossil KNM-WT 15000. KNM-WT 15000? Well, this is the catalog number given to the fossil. In the meanwhile, you must be wondering, 'What is so special about it? It's just a fossil'. It's so special, because it is the nearly complete skeleton of a Homo ergaster youth that we found, who lived during 1.5 to 1.6 million years ago. 

1.5 million years? What do you think if we were able time travel to the past and meet them? Comment your thoughts below. 

As of now, this specimen is the most complete early human skeleton ever found, and was discovered in 1984, by Kamoya Kimeu, on the bank of the Nariokotome River, near Lake Turkana, in Kenya. 

From the skeleton, experts were able to provide us with some data. The individual's age at death, is estimated to be from 7 to 11 years old. The skeleton is about 160 centimetres (63 in) tall. There are significant defining characters, such as bigger brain size, the arms and legs are slightly longer. The skin was abundant with melanin. 

However, the fossil definitely showed lumbar disc herniation, an injury implicated with the specimen's death. Who knows what more secrets our mother Earth hold for us to discover! 

Thank you all!!


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