A molar tooth of the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki found in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua] An international team of scientists from China, Australia and the United States has ...

Gigantopithecus blacki was the largest ape ever to live, yet its immense size became a disadvantage as climates shifted.

Long before humans walked the Earth, a massive ape ruled the forests of Asia. Gigantopithecus stood taller and heavier than any ape alive today. Fossil evidence suggests it was powerful enough to ...

In the world of prehistoric creatures, few have captured the imagination as much as Gigantopithecus blacki. Known as the largest primate ever to have walked the Earth, this giant ape ruled southern ...

From legends of Bigfoot to films like Mighty Joe Young, humans seem to have a fascination with giant ape-like creatures. This leads to the question of whether stories about giant apes have a basis in ...

Giants once roamed the karst plains of southern China, three-meter-tall apes weighing in at 550 pounds (250 kilograms). These very distant human ancestors - Gigantopithcus blacki - went extinct before ...

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A specimen discovered in Mongolia is the most complete fossil yet found of a pachycephalosaur, a dinosaur believed to be built for head-butting. The skull of Zavacephale rinpoche, a pachycephalosaur ...

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...

Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including those of a previously unknown Homo erectus population. A team of scientists ...