A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date
A new study reconstructs the 3.7 million-year-old face of Little Foot, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton ever found.
Grantee Spotlight: Shehani Fernando
What does urban life do to the gut microbiome? Researcher Shehani Fernando is finding out by studying wild macaques in Sri Lanka.
Grantee Spotlight: Maria Creighton
Maria Creighton is a PhD candidate at Duke University studying one of the most fundamental questions in social evolution: does having strong social bonds actually make you healthier, or do healthier people simply have more energy to be social?
My grandmother, Mary Leakey
Third-generation paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey reflects on the life and legacy of her grandmother, Mary Leakey.
Grantee Spotlight: Olayemi Ajayi
Olayemi Ajayi is a Leakey Foundation grantee whose research will help us understand how animals respond on a molecular level to environmental change.