Richard Leakey' s life was a life of ironies and contrasts; a form two drop-out who became a CEO of a public institution and world-famous paleoanthropologist; a man who lost his vital organs but ...

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, politician, explorer and environmentalist, gives a lecture on "Living Off the Grid" at the Wang Center at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook on Oct. 15, 2014.

Richard Leakey has died. The famed anthropologist whose discoveries helped prove mankind began in Africa was 77 years old. Leakey was also a conservationist, leading the charge to try to wipe out ...

Richard Leakey has had several brushes with death. When he was a boy, he fell off a horse and fractured his skull. A few years later, a puff adder – one of the deadliest snakes in the world ...

Richard Leakey with 20 tons of elephant tusks captured from poachers in 1991. The tusks were burned to keep ivory off the international market and to discourage the illegal killing of elephants.

Kenyan paleoanthropologist and conservationist Richard Leakey, who unearthed evidence that helped prove humankind evolved in Africa, died on Sunday at the age of 77, Kenya's President Uhuru ...

“Richard Leakey’s discovery of fossil sediments at Koobi Fora has probably been responsible for producing close to half of the world’s evidence for human evolution,” Lawrence Martin ...

Richard Leakey ramped up the fuel mixture, cutting the air intake—a mistake at that altitude. Unable to restart the engine, he found himself free-falling towards villages and schools.

Actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie has been hired to direct "Africa," a feature film about paleoanthropologist and conservationist Richard Leakey and his campaign against ivory poachers that ...

In his life, Richard Leakey has been both a politician and ecologist; the son of famous anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey, he’s also an evolutionary biologist who invented the term “the ...

OBITUARY 28 January 2022 Richard Leakey (1944–2022) Palaeontologist of human origins, conservationist and politician.