Paleontologists and anthropologists led by Dr Kieran McNulty from the University of Minnesota have discovered definitive evidence of the widespread, dense, multistoried, closed-canopy tropical seasonal forest with a warm and relatively wet, local climate inhabited by the early Miocene ape Proconsul, and its relative primate Dendropithecus, on Rusinga Island, Kenya. The early ape Proconsul, center, and the primate Dendropithecus, upper right, inhabited...
