Estimating how big Gigantopithecus really grew and what limited its size. America’s biggest oil field is turning into a ...

The mystery of Gigantopithecus blacki, Earth’s largest primate, still baffles scientists.

Long before humans walked the Earth, a massive ape ruled the forests of Asia. Gigantopithecus stood taller and heavier than ...

Researchers are looking for answers behind the mystery of Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known primate that ever lived.

This illustration provided by researchers depicts Gigantopithecus blacki in a forest in the Guangxi region of southern China. Garcia/Joannes-Boyau AP Standing at 9 feet tall and weighing up to 660 ...

Giant creatures are usually associated with dinosaurs, woolly mammoths or mystical beasts. But if you go back though the human lineage you’ll find a very distant relative that stood three metres tall ...

Reconstruction of a "Gigantopithecus blacki", at the San Diego Museum of Man (California) in 2003. ALAMY STOCK PHOTO / HEMIS.FR It has to be said that three mysteries have long surrounded the two ...

The largest primate ever to walk the Earth went extinct because it could not adapt to its changing environment, with the mighty beast reduced to living off bark and twigs before dying off, scientists ...

An artist's impression of a group of G. blacki within a forest in southern China. By doing detailed analysis on thousands of their teeth, researchers were able to learn that they likely went extinct ...

An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach during dry seasons, scientists reported Wednesday. The species ...

NEW YORK — The largest primate ever to walk the Earth went extinct because it could not adapt to its changing environment, with the mighty beast reduced to living off bark and twigs before dying off, ...