Calling all keen eyes: The University of Bradford and the Turkana Basin Institute have launched FossilFinder.org, a website that wants to enlist citizen scientists to help identify possible fossils and "cultural remains" at Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. And couch-potato amateur archaeologists, you're in luck: you don't even have to leave your couch to be a valuable member of the team.
Fossil Finder uses drones and kites to capture high-resolution images of the Turkana Basin, a 4 million-year-old "fossil hotspot" located in a difficult-to-traverse desert. Posting photos on the site allows for fossils that might get missed in a field survey to instead be spotted by people working from home.
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