1. English palaeontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
   - Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey

Type of: anthropologist, fossilist, palaeontologist [Brit, Cdn], paleontologist [N. Amer]

Encyclopedia: Richard Leakey

• genus Liomys
• genus Liopelma
• genus Liparis
• genus Liposcelis
• genus Liquidambar
• genus Liriodendron
• genus Liriope
• genus Listera
• genus Listeria
• genus Litchi
• genus Lithocarpus
• genus Lithophragma
• genus Lithops
• genus Lithospermum
• genus Litocranius
• genus Littorina
• genus Livistona
• genus Loasa
• genus Lobelia
• genus Lobipes
• genus Lobotes
• genus Lobularia
• genus Locusta
• genus Lofortyx
• genus Logania