Monkeying with Proconsul's hip. (fossil ape)

From: Science News | Date: December 15, 1990| Author: Bower, Bruce | Copyright information

Monkeying with Proconsul's hip

In 1985, fossil hunters working near Kenya's Lake Victoria uncovered a nearly complete left hip bone belonging to Proconsul, a "formative ape" that lived between about 22 million and 14 million years ago (SN: 1/12/85, p.26). Analysis of the rare remnant of Proconsul's pelvic anatomy now indicates it resembles the hip bones of living monkeys more than those of living apes, reports Carol V. Ward of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine i...

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