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." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans have long been captivated by gigantic creatures at the center of myths and legends. That phenomena surfaced on social media ...

Chinese, Australian and US researchers have revealed more about the extinction of the Gigantopithecus blacki great ape in their latest joint study, which was published in Nature on Thursday. The study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late December 2023, a photograph went viral on social media, allegedly depicting Gigantopithecus, "an extinct genus of ape that ...

Gigantopithecus blacki was a giant ape in southern China that may have reached about 3 meters tall and 200–300 kg. New ...

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 inhabited Southeast ...

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 ...