A giant species of ape that lived up until 100,000 years ago went extinct because it could not adapt to dietary and habitat changes, scientists have suggested. Gigantopithecus were the largest-known ...

Researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen have retrieved the oldest molecular evidence on the evolution of hominids ...

17:05, Tue, Jan 5, 2016 Updated: 17:44, Tue, Jan 5, 2016 The giant ape, which has often been described as the real life King Kong, could grow up to three metres tall and weigh an astonishing 500 ...

Stories of ancient giants in North America have circulated for centuries. Some early settlers believed they’d found proof in oversized bones. In reality, many of these remains belonged to extinct ...

Humans have long been captivated by gigantic creatures at the center of myths and legends. That phenomena surfaced on social media recently, when a photograph circulated allegedly depicting ...

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of why the largest ape ever to walk Earth went extinct, with new evidence suggesting the giant ape struggled to adapt to climate change. In a new study ...

Researchers have succeeded in reconstructing the evolutionary relationship between a two million year old giant primate and the living orangutan. It is the first time genetic material this old has ...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in reconstructing the evolutionary relationship between a two million year old giant primate and the living orangutan. It is the first time ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Genetic material extracted from a 1.9 million-year-old fossil tooth from southern China shows that the world's largest-known ape - an extinct creature dubbed "Giganto" that once ...

Undated file photo shows a 1.9-million-year-old Gigantopithecus blacki molar found in a cave in Tiandong County of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Chinese and Danish scientists have ...

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." ...

Gigantopithecus blacki went extinct at least 215,000 years ago after climate change caused its forest home to vanish. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.