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Mary Leakey Honored With Google Doodle

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 (extinct ape believed to be ancestral to humans) skull. She also discovered the Zinjanthropus (Paranthropus, a genus of extinct hominins) skull. Leakey was born on February 6, 1913, which obviously, makes this her 100th birthday. She died in 1996 at the age of 83. Here’s a look at Google’s Knowledge Panel for Leakey: Simon Rüger shared this doodle video with us: Google has run a number of other doodles already this week in different parts of the world. There were at least four on Monday, including the Canadian penny , Sri Lanka Independence Day , Josef Kajetán Tyl and Manuel Álvarez Bravo .