Gigantopithecus (from the Ancient Greek γίγας gigas `giant`, and πίθηκος pithekos `ape`) is an extinct genus of ape that existed from perhaps nine million years to as recently as one hundred thousand years ago, in what is now Nepal, China, India, and Vietnam, placing Gigantopithecus in the same time frame and geographical location ...
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genus of large fossil ape, of which two species are known: Gigantopithecus bilaspurensis, which lived 6 to 9 million years ago in India, and ... [1 related articles]
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Gigantopithecus meaning gigantic ape) was the biggest primate that ever lived. Gigantopithecus was a gorilla-like land-dwelling ape that weighed roughly 650 pounds (300 kg) and was about 10 feet (3 m) tall. It was an omnivore, probably eating eating plants and small animals. This intelligent mammal lived during from the late Miocene until the middl...
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a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
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