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 ...

The extinct species of great ape that once stood around 10 feet tall and weighed up to 650 pounds was likely driven to extinction by environmental changes, scientists in China and Australia report ...

Macquarie University. (2024, January 10). The extinction of the giant ape: Long-standing mystery solved. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 01 ...

Giant creatures are usually associated with dinosaurs, woolly mammoths or mystical beasts. But if you go back though the human lineage youll find a very distant relative that stood three metres ...

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 ...

9-foot tall giant ape, gigantopithecus blacki, mysteriously went extinct in China. It failed to adapt to a changing environment, study says.

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 ...