An international team of anthropologists has discovered definitive evidence of the environment inhabited by the early ape Proconsul on Rusinga Island, Kenya. The findings provide new insights into ...

An earlier hominoid, Proconsul, lived in East Africa about 23 million years ago and had a body mass of up to 50 kilograms – about the same as a chimpanzee, and not much smaller than a human.

The fossil of the extinct genus of primate Proconsul was discovered in Rusinga Island in Kenya Reuters Anthropologists have discovered definitive evidence of that the early ape Proconsul inhabited ...