The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

This is a Puff Adder, Africa’s most dangerous snake. We will stay away from him.

This is a Nile monitor lizard. He is harmless unless you are a small bird or a slug. But he is longer than we are, so we’ll stay away from him too.

These are African Rock Pythons. They are not venomous, they are constrictors. The stripy ones are young, the blacker ones are old. They can grow to over 5X as long as us and kill mammals bigger than us. But we know people that have them as pets at home. We’ll still stay away from the wild ones.

This is a gaboon viper. They are friendly and don’t bite much. But if they do you are in trouble, their venom is super deadly.

This is a green mamba. He also has really nasty venom.

This is a red spitting cobra. He has super toxic venom that he likes to spit in your eyes. We hopefully won’t see any of these that aren’t behind glass.

This is a nile crocodile. We might just stay in the truck for two months.

Here we found more animals to be afraid of.

We also found another huge collection of early hominids. This is the only complete skull of proconsul ever found. It is 18 million years old.

He is one of the first apes. He weighed about 9kg and lived in the trees, but had no tail.

This is a 2.5 million year old skull of a Paranthropus aethiopicus. It is black because it is stained with manganese. Paranthropus was made for chewing, with huge reinforced jaw bones. The mohawk part sticking out of his skull was an attachment for the huge chewing muscles.

This is a 1.75 million year old skull of Paranthropus boisei. His nickname is the nutcracker man.

This is a 1.75 million year old Homo ergaster skull. She was found in the same layer of rock as the skull above, so she must have lived in nearly the same time and the same place.

This is a 1.9 million year old Homo rudolfensis skull. He’s the earliest known fossil with a big brain like us, and probably the first to use stone tools.

This is the Nariokotome boy, a 1.6 million year old Homo erectus fossil and the most complete early hominin ever found, with only his hands and feet missing. He was between 9 and 12 years old when he died, but he was already 5’4” tall.