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Gigantopithecus—the closest Nature ever came to producing a real King Kong—weighed five times as much as an adult man and probably stood three metres (nine feet) tall, according to sketchy estimates. In its heyday a million years ago, it inhabited semi-tropical forests in southern China and mainland Southeast Asia.
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Read More »An undated picture provided by the Press Office of the Senckenberg Research Institute on January 4, 2016, shows examined tooth of Gigantopithecus from Thailand The largest ape to roam Earth died out 100,000 years ago because it failed to tuck into savannah grass after climate change hit its preferred diet of forest fruit, scientists suggest. Gigantopithecus—the closest Nature ever came to producing a real King Kong—weighed five times as much as an adult man and probably stood three metres (nine feet) tall, according to sketchy estimates. In its heyday a million years ago, it inhabited semi-tropical forests in southern China and mainland Southeast Asia. Until now, though, almost nothing was known about the giant's anatomical shape or habits. The only fossil records are four partial lower jaws, and perhaps a thousand teeth—the first of which turned up in the 1930s in Hong Kong apothecaries where they were sold as "dragon's teeth." These meagre remains "are clearly insufficient to say if the animal was bipedal or quadrupedal, and what would be its body proportions," Herve Bocherens, a researcher at Tübingen University in Germany, told AFP. Its closest modern cousin is the orangutan, but whether Gigantopithecus had the same golden-red hue, or was black like a gorilla is unknown.
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Read More »That's when Nature, evolution—and perhaps a refusal to try new foods—conspired to doom the giant ape, Bocherens explained. "Due to its size, Gigantopithecus presumably depended on a large amount of food," he said. "When during the Pleistocene, more and more forested area turned into savannah landscapes, there was simply an insufficient food supply." And yet, according to the study, other apes and early humans in Africa that had comparable dental gear were able to survive similar transitions by eating the leaves, grass and roots offered by their new environments. But for some reason, Asia's giant ape—which was probably too heavy to climb trees, or swing in their branches—did not make the switch. "Gigantopithecus probably did not have the same ecological flexibility and possibly lacked the physiological ability to resist stress and food shortage," notes the study, which is to be published in a specialist journal, Quaternary International. Whether the mega-ape could have adapted to a changing world but didn't, or whether it was doomed by climate and its genes, is probably one mystery that will never be solved. Climate change several hundred thousand years ago was also likely responsible for the disappearance of many other large animals from the Asians continent. More information: Hervé Bocherens et al. Flexibility of diet and habitat in Pleistocene South Asian mammals: Implications for the fate of the giant fossil ape Gigantopithecus, Quaternary International (2015). DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.059 Journal information: Quaternary International
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