Gigantopithecus is an extinct genus of ape that existed from perhaps nine million years to as recently as one hundred thousand years ago, at the same period as Homo erectus would have been dispersed, in what is now India, Vietnam, China and Indonesia placing Gigantopithecus in the same time frame and geographical location as several hominin species.
The primate fossil record suggests that the species Gigantopithecus blacki were the largest known primates that ever lived, standing up to 3 m (9.8 ft) and weighing as much as 540–600 kg (1,190–1,320 lb).
Darin W
I love how they can tell you what the animal looked like from just some teeth and jawbone fragments…
Wes
Yeah I agree, I would like to have someone who knows what they are talking about to share how they came up with its appearance.
Evelyn L
The evolutionary tale that they tell students, even today, is a product of the imagination of those who push this tale on everyone. No one is allowed to question them. The photos that we see in “science” books are drawings that came from a few small ancient bones. Usually teeth.
Mark T
Who says Giganto was actually an ape?
Maybe it was just like what people call Bigfoot today, and extremely intelligent…
Wes
You could be right. They sure seem to lay out what this thing looked like based on teeth and part of a jaw.
Richard W
Darin W. I agree with you.
Charles R
I have thought since I first heard of Giganto quite a few years ago that this is a great candidate for the Sasquatch ancestor. Perhaps back several hundred thousand years ago, they did not keep to the forest as much as they do today, because they did not have to. And thus the numerous teeth that have been found in the Chinese shops. Today the forest that the Sasquatch and it’s cousins live, the acidic soils claim the remains and bones quite fast. Or they may now bury the dead. However like others, I wondered how they can determine what this creature really looked like or how it operated with only teeth and few jaw fragments being found. It may well have been an upright sapiens that walks on two legs and operated like modern day humans and not orangutans. However when modern day academia’s are so self absorbed to not recognize the Sasquatch, then they are relegated to go with what they know ( or think they know ) and thus the theory of just a simple overgrown ape.