Standing at 9 feet tall and weighing up to 660 pounds, Gigantopithecus blacki was the largest primate to walk the Earth. The giant ape — an herbivore with a fondness for fruit — appeared in ...

An artist’s reconstruction of Gigantopithecus blacki, an ape that stood 10 feet tall and went extinct between 295,000 and 215,000 years ago. Credit... Garcia/Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University ...

The giant ape, who weighed as much as 1,200 pounds, was a plant eater, subsisting mainly on bamboo. This limited diet may have led to the ultimate extinction of Gigantopithecus, ...

They are a new species of ape They are giant chimpanzees, much larger than any so far recorded, but behave like gorillas They could be hybrids, the product of gorillas mating with chimpanzees. So far, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An elusive giant ape has been spotted in remote forests in central Africa, sparking theories that it could be a new species of ...

The demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki. Nature. 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06900-0. This article has been republished from the following materials. Note: material may have been edited ...

Flexibility of diet and habitat in Pleistocene South Asian mammals: Implications for the fate of the giant fossil ape Gigantopithecus. Published online December 19, 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint ...

An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction hundreds of thousands of years ago when climate change put its favourite fruits out of reach during dry seasons, according to a new ...