Google Doodle celebrates archaeologist Mary Leakey's 100th birthday

Search giant Google on Wednesday paid tribute to British archaeologist Mary Leakey with a doodle marking her 100th birth anniversary.

 

Visitors to Google's homepage (www.google.com) were greeted with a doodle of Leakey at work in the field.  

 

As in the past, clicking on the doodle will take the visitor to a Google Search Results page for Mary Leakey.

 

Leakey was born on Feb. 6, 1913 and died Dec. 9, 1996.

 

She is remembered for discovering the first fossilized Proconsul skull - that of an extinct ape believed to be an ancestor of humans.

 

Also, she is remembered for discovering the Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge.

 

Leakey died at age 83 in Kenya. — TJD, GMA News