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 ...

Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, whose surname is tantamount to the origins of mankind, has died Sunday at his native Nairobi, it was announced. He was 77. “I have this afternoon ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Former chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Board Richard Leakey during an ...

if not for the project founder Richard Leakey’s death in 2022. (Since then, the building’s site has changed, according to the ...

His bones were fossilized, and they lay undetected until 1985, when they were discovered by paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey. He was only about 10 years old when he died, revealed by the fact ...

Stephen Sackur talks to Richard Leakey, the Chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Africa's wildlife is one of the wonders of the natural world, but the fate of the continent's elephants ...

They and their children (especially Richard and his wife Meave) became known as the first family of paleontology. Louis Leakey was born in 1903 in Kenya, where his English parents were missionaries.