Mary Leakey: Matriarch to three generations of archaeology royalty

Google is celebrating the 100th birthday of anthropologist and archaeologist Mary Leakey today with a homepage doodle. Leakey is featured in the field, accompanied by her beloved dalmations. "We love that her dogs made the cut!" the Leakey Foundation

Mary Leakey is being honored with a Google doodle in parts of the world where it is already February 6th (like Australia). Leakey was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul

Today, Google posted its third birthday Doodle of the year, and British anthropologist Mary Leakey has joined Jackie Robinson and Frank Zamboni as this year's honorees! At this very moment, in the United States, women are

Mary Leakey was a British archaeologist and anthropologist who earned hear fame after discovering the first fossilized Proconsul skull. The Proconsul skull is of an extinct ape which is believed to be from humans descent. She is also credited with

She was a talented artist, specializing in early Stone Age, able to flawlessly draw early tools and artifacts. He had a passion for fossils since he found arrowheads and tools as a child. Together, Mary and Louis Leakey would change the scientific