Proconsul africanus


An illustration of the extinct primate, Proconsul africanus. Like Dendropithecus, they mostly lived in tropical forests in East Africa during the Miocene about 50 million years ago. Painting by Maurice Wilson


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Photo credit: © Natural History Museum, London / Alamy / Afripics
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