Mary Leakey, half of the team whose discoveries in East Africa brought the world closer to understanding the origins of man, died Monday. She was 83. A statement from her son Richard announced her … ...

The second of three sons of famed fossil hunters Louis and Mary Leakey, he would first reject, and then embrace, their life’s work, ultimately making it his own. He later diversified into ...

Richard Leakey, who died in January and was the son of Louis and Mary, said Mr. Kamoya had an instinctive talent for finding fossils, whether elephants or humans.

Leakey, 52, is the granddaughter of Louis and Mary Leakey, who put East Africa on the paleontological map with the discovery of a 1.75 million-year-old human ancestor in Tanzania.

FILE -Archaeologist Mary Leakey speaks to Masai school children on Aug. 16, 1996 at Laetoli, northern Tanzania at the site of 3.6-million-year-old hominid footprints she identified 20 years ago.

Skeletal adaptations for traveling upright are evident in fossils of the very oldest hominins ... In 2019 Musiba and I traveled to Laetoli and used Mary Leakey’s detailed drawings like a ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. ... In 1959, an extremely robust australopithecine was discovered by ...

When Louis Leakey and Mary Nicol first met, he asked her to help with illustrations for his upcoming (1934) book Adam's Ancestors: An Up-to-Date Outline of What is Known about the Origin of Man ...

That focus changed in the 1960s when paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey began to discover hominin fossils at Olduvai (now Oldupai) Gorge, in Tanzania, some of which looked as if they could ...

Richard Leakey. Credit: Sara Stathas. Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey died on January 2 at the age of 77. The Kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter was the son of paleoanthropologists Louis and ...

The fossils found there by Mr. Leakey and his “Hominid Gang,” as he and his colleagues came to be known, would change the world’s understanding of human evolution. One of his most celebrated ...

Louis and Mary met on a dig in England, and both worked briefly at the Olduvai Gorge before being married in England. It was Leakey's second marriage. They returned to Kenya in 1937 and had three ...