Grantee Spotlight: Natalie Robinson
Natalie Robinson is an orangutan researcher and conservationist, and a PhD candidate at Rutgers University. She studies how food, energy, and ecology shape reproduction in wild Bornean orangutans.
10 Facts about Mountain Gorillas
A gorilla researcher shares mountain gorilla facts along with some of the questions Leakey Foundation-supported researchers are working to answer now.
Grantee Spotlight: Ariel N. Barrera
Ariel N. Barrera is a PhD candidate and Leakey Foundation grantee exploring when and how our modern facial anatomy took shape.
Bornean orangutan fire emergency
An active fire crisis is threatening critical wild orangutan habitat across West Kalimantan.
Ancient teeth reveal the Ice Age origins of the world’s 4th most common addictive drug
Adam Brumm, Griffith University; Carney D. Matheson, Griffith University; Fakhri, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN); Melandri Vlok, Charles Sturt University, and Roger Papke, University of Florida Humans everywhere use mind-altering substances, from stimulants and narcotics to hallucinogens. Yet surprisingly little is known about how some psychoactive drugs were first discovered and incorporated into daily life. In a study published<br>