Gigantopithecus

Translingual right|thumb|Gigantopithecus giganteus species, replica of a fossil jawbone Etymology From mul la-new -, from mul grc Γίγαντος (genitive of grc Γίγας Giant) + grc πίθηκος ape. Proper noun †1 m genus family Hominidae an ape that existed from roughly one million years to as recently as three-hundred thousand years ago, in what is now China, India, and Vietnam en mul 1983 Valjean McLenighan China, A History to 1949 https://archive.org/details/chinahistoryto1900mcle/ Chicago w:Children's Press 0-516-02754-9 83-14260 33944801 10 https://archive.org/details/chinahistoryto1900mcle/page/10/ The first real human beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils of Gigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools. en mul Katie Hunt ‘Real King Kong’ primate was related to the orangutan w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/13/world/ancient-ape-linked-to-orangutan-scn 2019-11-13 Scientists have estimated that the extinct ape, known as Gigantopithecus blacki, stood almost 10 foot high (3 meters) and was twice the weight of gorilla, but no complete skull or any other bone from the rest of the skeleton has been found, leading to a lot of speculation. Cappellini cautioned that the study’s findings didn’t mean the Gigantopithecus would necessarily look like an orangutan. https://web.archive.org/web/20251210165035/https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/13/world/ancient-ape-linked-to-orangutan-scn/ 10 December 2025 Hyponyms genus Gigantopithecus bilaspurensis species, Gigantopithecus blacki species, Gigantopithecus giganteus species extinct species Further reading 1 1 1