Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of ...

Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey, the granddaughter of Mary and Louis Leakey, ... Leakey also found her first hominid fossil at age five, becoming the youngest person to make such a discovery.

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.

Many of the fossils were found by excavations decades ago, including those conducted by Mary Leakey and her husband Louis. Of the near-200 bones Pobiner investigated, only one—the 28th she ...

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.

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 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 ...

One word — fossil — is usually enough to identify Richard Leakey, known the world over for his discoveries confirming Africa as the birthplace of humanity. Just 23, he found two partial skulls ...

Leakey continued to be active in conservation and paleontology through the last years of his life. See All Key Ideas On July 19th, 1989, Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi lit the match on twelve ...

Leakey had a lifelong passion for nature, seeded, he would say, by the otherwise miserable times he and his young brothers endured in remote parts of east Africa during their parents’ fossil ...

Richard Leakey often said the things he liked doing best were those things that people said couldn’t be done. He also said he had no interest in being popular; rather, he was interested in ...

Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist, conservationist and Kenyan political leader, died January 2 at his home near Nairobi. His expeditions discovered hundreds of hominin fossils, leading Fred ...