Ancient wildebeest-like animal shared ‘bizarre’ feature with dinosaur
By poring over the fossilized skulls of ancient wildebeest-like animals unearthed on Kenya’s Rusinga Island, researchers have discovered that the little-known hoofed mammals had a very unusual, trumpet-like nasal passage similar only to the nasal crests of lambeosaurine hadrosaur dinosaurs.
Animated Life: Mary Leakey
This wonderful animated documentary by Flora Lichtman and Sharon Shattuck remembers the life and work of Mary Leakey.
Grandmothers and the evolution of pair bonds
If you are in a special relationship with another person, thank grandma - not just yours, but all grandmothers since humans evolved.
Origin Stories Episode 04: How to Document a Society
This episode of Origin Stories is about what it takes to document the daily lives of chimpanzees, what we’ve learned, and how to handle all the data that’s been collected during the longest running study of any animal in the wild.
https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/originstories/OriginStoriesEpisode04.mp3
In the 55 years since Louis Leakey sent Jane Goodall to the Gombe forest to study chimpanzees, we’ve<br>
Chimpanzee ‘Laugh Faces’
Marina Davila-Ross was awarded a grant from The Leakey Foundation in the spring of 2015 for her research project entitled “Systematically testing facial thermal imaging as a most sensitive and reliable novel technology to directly compare subtle emotion changes in apes and humans.” Her work on facial expressions and laughter in chimpanzees was recently published in the journal PLOS ONE.<br>