In late December 2023, a photograph went viral on social media, allegedly depicting Gigantopithecus, "an extinct genus of ape that existed from two million years to as recently as 100,000 years ago." ...

Towering over today’s gorillas, Gigantopithecus was a colossal primate that once roamed the forests of Asia. At over 10 feet tall, this gentle giant remains one of prehistory’s most mysterious ...

NEW YORK — The largest primate ever to walk the Earth went extinct because it could not adapt to its changing environment, with the mighty beast reduced to living off bark and twigs before dying off, ...

The largest primate in our family tree went extinct hundreds of thousands of years ago, and its existence has been known to humankind for less than a century. Now, a team of researchers has reviewed ...

Scientists say they now know why and when Gigantopithecus blacki disappeared, over the course of nearly a decade, a team of Chinese and Australian scientists took sediment samples from 22 caves over a ...

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