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, 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 ...

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 set up camp beside the lake in 1968, and was appointed director of the national museum by the government of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president after independence from Britain.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...