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An especially important creature was Proconsul africanus. This, many authorities once concluded, gave us an indication of the common stock for apes and men. We have good forelimb bones for it, and in 1948 on Rusinga Island Mary [Leakey] discovered a skull, the first nearly complete specimen ever found.
Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa.
Proconsul is an extinct genus of primates that existed from 21 to 17 million years ago during the Miocene epoch. Fossil remains are present in Eastern Africa , including Kenya and Uganda . Four species have been classified to date: P. africanus , P. gitongai , P. major and P. meswae .
Proconsulidae is an early family of primates that lived during the Miocene epoch in Kenya, and was restricted to Africa.Members of the family have a mixture of Old World monkey and ape characteristics, so the placement in the ape superfamily Hominoidea is tentative; some scientists place Proconsulidae outside of Hominoidea in a separately superfamily Proconsuloidea, before the split of the ...
A Proconsul africanus specimen found on Rusinga Island Rusinga is widely known for its extraordinarily rich and important fossil beds of extinct Miocene mammals, dated to 18 million years. [ 4 ] The island had been only cursorily explored until the Leakey expedition of 1947-1948 began systematic searches and excavations, which have continued ...
At least 10 human skulls have been found at a residence in Jal, N.M., with one possibly being linked to a woman who has been missing since 2019.. Lea County Sheriff's Office was first alerted on ...
A human skeleton was discovered on the side of the road in Mequon, Wisconsin, on Oct. 4, 1959, which investigators determined to be the skull of a 6- to 8-year-old child. Markku Jutila.
Although the skull was found in 1978, authorities weren’t able to identify Granger. In 2021, the Kane County Coroner's Cold Case Team found out about Othram Laboratories, a Texas-based forensic ...