Gigantopithecus blacki was a giant ape in southern China that may have reached about 3 meters tall and 200–300 kg. New ...

Gigantopithecus was the largest ape to ever walk the Earth, possibly standing nearly 10 feet tall. Yet we have never found a complete skeleton, only massive teeth and fragments of jaw. It lived ...

If great apes are known for anything, it’s being great in size. A large gorilla can weigh nearly 500 pounds, for example, and the extinct great ape Gigantopithecus was likely a hundred pounds or so ...