Inside Richard Leakey's discovery of an ancient human ancestor skull—the same his parents had chased
In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his discovery of a nearly complete Australopithecus boisei skull (now Paranthropus boisei), the same species his parents had found a decade earlie
(National Geographic, 2025-10-13T00:00:00Z)