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Related: About this forumSecrets of the largest ape that ever lived
By Helen Briggs
@hbriggs
13 November 2019
A fossilised tooth left behind by the largest ape that ever lived is shedding new light on the evolution of apes.
Gigantopithecus blacki was thought to stand nearly three metres tall and tip the scales at 600kg.
In an astonishing advance, scientists have obtained molecular evidence from a two-million-year-old fossil molar tooth found in a Chinese cave.
The mystery ape is a distant relative of orangutans, sharing a common ancestor around 12 million years ago.
"It would have been a distant cousin (of orangutans), in the sense that its closest living relatives are orangutans, compared to other living great apes such as gorillas or chimpanzees or us," said Dr Frido Welker, from the University of Copenhagen.
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Secrets of the largest ape that ever lived (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Nov 2019
OP
I thought this was about the corpulent Neanderthal-throwback in the White House.
Liberty Belle
Nov 2019
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Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)1. I thought this was about the corpulent Neanderthal-throwback in the White House.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)2. no... that would be the story of the dumbest ape who ever lived
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)4. So many people are just jealous of him!
He's just too majestic for his clothes.
RegexReader
(416 posts)3. could this be the cause of a racial memory among Homo sapiens
for a mysterious 'bigfoot' ape?