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Bookmark or Share- Gigantopithecus - Size, Diet, Fossils & Facts with PicturesWhen describing it as a new genus the choice of name was obvious and so von Koenigswald created Gigantopithecus with literally translates as ‘giant ape’. Since this first discovery over one thousand three hundred teeth have been tracked down, many of them from the Traditional Chinese medicine market. .
- Gigantopithecus blacki: How the gigantopithecus, the largest ape that ...How the gigantopithecus, the largest ape that ever walked on Earth, became extinct ‘Gigantopithecus blacki,’ which weighed over 600 lbs, disappeared 250,000 years ago from southern China when...
- Gigantopithecus Facts, Habitat, Diet, Fossils, Pictures - Extinct AnimalsThe Gigantopithecus is a genus of extinct apes and is the largest of all the primates (including all species of monkeys, gorillas, chimpanzees, orang-utans, and apes) that ever walked the earth.
- We may finally know why the world’s largest primate went extinct - AAASThree meters tall and weighing 250 kilograms, Gigantopithecus blacki was the biggest primate that ever lived when it roamed the forests of what is now southern China from at least 2.3 million years ago. Fossils suggest G. blacki once had a large and stable population.
- Gigantopithecus | Size, Fossils, & Facts | BritannicaGigantopithecus, (Gigantopithecus blacki), genus of large extinct apes represented by a single species, Gigantopithecus blacki, which lived during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) in southern China.
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