Six-million-year-old hominid fossils were discovered here in 2000 byBrigitte Senut and Martin Pickford, the oldest ever discovered in Kenya, and the second oldest in the world after "Sahelanthropus tchadensis".
Six-million-year-old hominid fossils were discovered here in 2000 by Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford; the species was named "Orrorin tugenensis" after the location. This was the oldest hominid ever discovered in Kenya, and the second oldest in the world after "Sahelanthropus tchadensis".