What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ↓ More info below ↓ Probably twice the size of a modern gorilla, Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates, there are some lessons to be learned in how it lived, and why it disappeared. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Thanks to Julio Lacerda at 252MYA.com and Carlos Eulefi for both of their wonderful reconstructions of Gigantopithecus. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ References: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618215011854?via%3Dihub https://phys.org/news/2016-01-giant-ape-gigantopithecus-extinct-years.html http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/tanyasmith/files/10.pdf https://phys.org/news/2012-02-fossil-teeth-gigantopithecus-yunnan-guizhou-plateau.html https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007% 2Fs11434-011-4732-4.pdf http://www.pnas.org/content/87/20/8120.full.pdf http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1975412/king-kong-hong-kong-how-giant-ape-fossil-was-found-1930s http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1525/aa.1957.59.5.02a00080/asset/aa.1957.59.5.02a00080.pdf; jsessionid=F4D016D80B1A28F7FA846DF7BAEDF319.f01t02?v=1&t=j9vmrv8s&s=443299a6a1c787d05e6738a4b2c634e10667316c http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.23150/full http://www.midway.k-state.edu/livestock/docs/What% 20is%20the%20difference%20between%20C3%20plants%20and%20C4%20plants.pdf https://www.livescience.com/53313-biggest-ape-forest-dweller.html https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Climate+ change+causing+reduction+in+sizes+of+animals+and+plants%3a...-a0269950318 http://124.16.247.197:8080/bitstream/311034/7491/1/1-s2.0-S0031018216306241-main.pdf http://lveho.ivpp.ac.cn/kycg/lw/201404/P020140409540808768786.pdf http://www.academia.edu/download/44121888/Olejniczak_20et_20al._202008_20AJPA.pdf https://www.academia.edu/235303/Characteristics_of_Pleistocene_megafauna_extinctions_in_Southeast_Asia

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