Noted husband-and-wife paleontologists (7 letters)

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LEAKEYS

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husband, leakeys, noted, paleontologists, wife

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The answer LEAKEYS is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.

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LEAKEY as a noun:

1. (Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey) = English paleontologist (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)

2. (Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey) = English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)

3. (Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey) = English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)