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 ...

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 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’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 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, famous for fossil-finding and conservation work in his native Kenya, has died, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Sunday. He was 77.

I have this afternoon, Sunday January 2, 2022, received with deep sorrow the sad news of the passing away of Dr Richard Erskine Frere Leakey, Kenya's former Head of Public Service.

Richard Leakey, a renowned Kenyan conservationist whose work was frequently featured in film and television documentaries, died today at age 77. Details on what he died from and where were not ...

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

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.

FILE – Richard Leakey, Kenyan wildlife conservationist, places a rhino horn to be burned at the zoo in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017.

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 ...