The drought has lasted fifteen million years.
The ape-man has reached the brink of extinction.
The once vast and endless rainforest that blocked out the sky has been ruthlessly destroyed by the cold winds from the north.
Grasses seized the opportunity and swiftly filled the void in the land.
Rough, tough, and difficult to digest grasses replaced tender leaves and fruits.
Countless herbivores were lost in the long river of history, followed by the carnivores that fed on them.
The old ecosystem collapsed with a roar.
And this was but one of the many mass extinction events that have occurred on this speck of cosmic dust, relatively commonplace.
But for primates, it was a disaster of annihilation.
The last remaining forests, like isolated islands in an ocean, were isolated from each other and continued to shrink.
