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 ...

Scientists have discovered definitive evidence of the environment inhabited by the early ape Proconsul on Rusinga Island, Kenya. The groundbreaking discovery provides additional information that will ...

The ape in the tree is Proconsul, a fossil ape known exclusively from East Africa. It has many things to recommend it as a subject for a book: it is the earliest known ape in the fossil record (dating ...

Of all fossils, the Proconsul is amongst the earliest ever discovered. Dan Peppe, assistant professor of geology at Baylor University, is studying these fossils to help understand the evolution of all ...