Mary Leakey

British paleoanthropologist who worked for most of her career in the Olduvai Gorge, in eastern Africa, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines believed to be more than 3.75 million-years-old. She is also known for discovering the Laetoli footprints as well as ifteen new species of other animals, and one new genus.She discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans.She was a renowned scientist and greatly inspired by the theories of Charles Darwin.

She found interest in the archaeological items she found in Elie Peyrony's excavation site.

She worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, a British archaeologist who she married in 1936 and had three songs with.

1948-10-6 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya.
1959-7-17 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers the partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or 'Zinj' (now called Paranthropus boisei) that lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago
1960-11-2 Mary Leakey and her team discover the first fossils of Homo habilis, an early human ancestor, at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Homo habilis is thought to be one of the earliest species to make stone tools and lived between 1.4 and 2.3 million years ago.

Scientist Mary Leakey were born on Thursday, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of Ox, it is 25 days until Mary Leakey next birthday.

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