In a sense, they were following in Mary Leaky's footsteps, says study author Charles Musiba, of the University of Colorado Denver, who was Leakey's mentee as an undergraduate.

The research is a result of a project run by paleontologist Louise Leakey. Her grandparents, famed paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey, made the family renowned for finds at Olduvai Gorge in ...

Mary Pope Hutson was born in Charleston and led 1990s conservation in South Carolina. Now, she's president of her alma mater, Sweet Briar College in Virginia.

Michael M. Phillips , The Wall Street Journal 13 min read 13 Oct 2024, 04:10 PM IST Louise Leakey in the Nairobi National Museum that has several million-year-old specimens her family collected, ...

Last week Leakey’s anthropologist wife, Mary, unveiled the most intact habilis skull ever found. It was dug up in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, and is about 1,750,000 years old.

Famous paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey brings a 20 million year-old proconsul africanus skull - that she found during an excavation on Lake Victoria - to the UK with her.

In a wide-ranging interview, Louise Leakey, Director of Public Education and Outreach for the Turkana Basin Institute and a Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook ...

H. habilis made its debut in the conversation of human origins in the early 1960s, after a series of landmark discoveries by anthropologists Louis S.B. Leakey and Mary Leakey, who were married. With a ...

Found in Laetoli, a renowned archaeological site in northeastern Tanzania, the 14 newfound footprints add to a set of 70 tracks uncovered in 1978 by paleontologist Mary Leakey. In all, the tracks ...

Kamoya Kimeu, a Kenyan who worked with the renowned Leakey family of paleontologists, was considered one of the world’s most successful fossil hunters, digging up skeletons millions of years old ...

Renowned paleontologist Kamoya Kimeu died on July 23 after a brief illness. He was credited with many noteworthy hominid discoveries, including a nearly complete Homo erectus skeleton dubbed Turkana ...

In the world of fossil hunters, Kamoya is the most celebrated Kenyan and had been recruited into practice by the late Louis and Mary Leakey. They worked together in the 1960 expedition in Tanzania’s ...