The Leakey Foundation

08.09.17

New 13 million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestry

The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like.

06.13.17

From the Field: Julien Louys, Sumatra

From the Field

In 1887 M. Eugène Dubois set out to what was then the Dutch East Indies in search of the missing link. More than a century later, Leakey Foundation Grantee Julien Louys followed in Dubois' footsteps to look for fossils in the caves of Sumatra.

05.30.17

3.3 Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals the Antiquity of the Human Spine

Journal Article, In the News

For more than 3 million years, Selam lay silent and still. Eager to tell her story, the almost perfect fossil skeleton of a 2 1/2 year-old toddler was discovered at Dikika, Ethiopia -- and she had a lot to say.

02.28.17

Grantee Spotlight: Thierry Smith

Grantee Spotlight

Thierry Smith is a research team leader at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium. He was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our fall 2016 cycle for his project entitled “Diversity and relationships of earliest Euprimates from Tadkeshwar Mine, India.”

02.17.16

Ancient wildebeest-like animal shared ‘bizarre’ feature with dinosaur

Journal Article

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.

Archives for fossil

New 13 million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestry

From the Field: Julien Louys, Sumatra

3.3 Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals the Antiquity of the Human Spine

Grantee Spotlight: Thierry Smith

Ancient wildebeest-like animal shared ‘bizarre’ feature with dinosaur