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	Gigantopithecus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gigantopithecus was a genus of ape that existed from as long ago as 5 million years ago and as recently as 100 thousand years ago in what is today the countries of China and India.
		It was a quadruped and an herbivore and probably had a diet that consisted primarily of bamboo.
		a Gigantopithecus was eating some bamboo when it was interupted by a tribe of Homo Erectus then it started making Gorilla like sounds and throwing stones to scare of the Homo Erectus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gigantopithecus (256 words)

	Gigantopithecus blacki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gigantopithecus fli (Greek and Latin for "Black's Giant Ape") is an extinct species of ape.
		Based on the fossil evidence, paleontologists speculate that Gigantopithecus had an adult height of over three meters (ten feet) and a weight of 550 kg (1200 lb), and was thus much larger and heavier than current-day gorillas.
		The species lived in Asia and probably inhabited bamboo forests, since its fossils are often found alongside those of extinct ancestors of the panda.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gigantopithecus_blacki (465 words)

	Gigantopithecus blacki
		A separate species of Gigantopithecus, Gigantipithecus giganteus, was found in northern India, but this specimen predates Gigantopithecus fli by about five million years, and there is some controversy as to the exact nature of its relationship.
		Ciochon et al., (1990) speculate that given its size Gigantopithecus fli was a ground dwelling ape, probably a knuckle walker, though it could just as easily been a fist walker, the exact nature of its locomotion is impossible to ascertain from mandibles.
		Gigantopithecus fli could have crossed the Bering Land Bridge, the same way humans are thought to have entered the New World (Geoffrey Bourne, 1975, cited in Ciochon et al., 1990).
	www.wynja.com /arch/gigantopithecus.html (2116 words)

	Asian fossils reveal humanity
		This suggested, first, that Gigantopithecus was around as a species for a considerable period, and second, that it may have become larger as the species evolved.
		In determining the size of Gigantopithecus, we felt it necessary to scale the body back a bit, so as not to be influenced too much by the giant ape's extraordinarily deep and thickened mandible.
		Gigantopithecus was native to southern Asia, while Homo originated in Africa about 1.6 million years ago and migrated eastward, finally arriving in what is now Southeast Asia about one million years ago.
	www.meta-religion.com /Paranormale/Anomalies/asian_fossils_reveal_humanity.htm (3651 words)

	The Bigfoot-Giganto Theory
		The Bigfoot-Giganto hypothesis suggests that bigfoots are surving relatives of the genus Gigantopithecus.
		Gigantopithecus (the Latin word for "Giant Ape") was a giant cousin of the orangutan.
		One flavor of the Bigfoot-Giganto hypothesis suggests that bigfoots might not be direct descendants of the genus Gigantopithecus, but rather some other offshoot of the giant Asian "wood ape" line, perhaps a line for which we have zero fossils remains at the present time.
	www.bfro.net /REF/THEORIES/MJM/whatrtha.asp (1224 words)

	John Hawks Anthropology Weblog
		Gigantopithecus fli was, as its name implies, a gigantic ape from the Pleistocene of China.
		The factors leading to the extinction of Gigantopithecus may be similar to those that threaten the panda, especially the fragmentation and loss of bamboo forest.
		Although Gigantopithecus and early humans may have coexisted for a period of time in China and Southeast Asia, there is no evidence that they interacted, or that humans led to the ape's extinction.
	johnhawks.net /weblog/fossils/apes/gigantopithecus?advanced_search=1 (1175 words)

	Do enormous prehistoric ape-men share the Earth with humanity today?
		It may be that Gigantopithecus would have to regularly hunt down and kill at least a few wolves in the vicinity periodically to help maintain a healthy fear of its kind in the local population, thereby blunting the threat of the packs overall.
		Gigantopithecus may have the ability to walk erect, similar to 20th century humanity (most of the purported footprints appear to be similar to humanity's, which suggests erect walking abilities).
		Gigantopithecus' typical response to a chance encounter with humans is to turn and head for cover-- perhaps running at high speeds for significant distances with a stamina few human beings could match, especially over rough terrain (keep in mind the possibly enormous stride of these beings).
	www.jmooneyham.com /bgft.html (4231 words)

	Wildmen of the World - A Species Named From Footprints by Dr. Grover S. Krantz
		Gigantopithecus fli was named by von Koenigswald in 1935 from a giant primate tooth he found in a Chinese drugstore.
		Gigantopithecus does not show the extreme molarized design of the australopithecines, so its jaw would not be as relatively oversized.
		Gigantopithecus jaws are exceptionally broad in the back; the horizontal rami diverge toward the rear to a degree unmatched by any other primate.
	home.twcny.rr.com /bigfootsasquatch/speciesnamedfromfootprints.html (2999 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Bigfoot Works"
		On the evolutionary tree, gigantopithecus is most closely related to the orangutan, the only modern Asian ape (gorillas and chimpanzees live in Africa).
		We don't know much about gigantopithecus, except that it was larger than a gorilla and had teeth similar to a human's.
		It is compelling that the closest living relative of gigantopithecus, the orangutan, shares some of the characteristics that eyewitnesses attribute to sasquatch.
	science.howstuffworks.com /bigfoot2.htm (619 words)

	The UnMuseum - Gigantopithecus
		Gigantopithecus is known to have lived in what is now China and Southeast Asia.
		Though Gigantopithecus sounds like a terror he probably was a very gentle and retiring vegetarian, if we can use Mountain Gorilla behavior as a guide.
		Gigantopithecus actually arose before the start of the Pleistocene Era (perhaps 13 million years ago) and went extinct about halfway through (500,000 years ago) the ice age before the other giant mammals did.
	www.unmuseum.org /bigape.htm (302 words)

	Giant ape lived alongside humans
		Research into Gigantopithecus flii began in 1935, when the Dutch paleontologist G.H. von Koenigswald discovered a yellowish molar among the "dragon bones" for sale in a Hong Kong pharmacy.
		For nearly 80 years, Gigantopithecus flii has intrigued scientists, who have pieced together a description using nothing more than a handful of teeth and a set of jawbones.
		Sample studies further revealed that Gigantopithecus was an herbivore, feasting mainly on bamboo.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-11/mu-gal111005.php (496 words)

	Gigantopithecus blacki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The more conservative ratio for Gigantopithecus was arrived at out of consideration of the massive jaw as an adaptation to the mastication of fibrous plant matter (probably bamboo).
		Gigantopithecus was probably proportionally a markedly big jawed creature.
		They trace Gigantopithecus back to a dryopithicine origin and their corresponding reconstruction is essentially a giant gorilla, 9 feet tall, weighing 600 pounds.
	www.meta-religion.com /Paranormale/Cryptozoology/Extinct_animals/gigantopithecus_blacki.htm (356 words)

	Homo erectus is building huts; the primate Gigantopithecus may be going extinct
		Gigantopithecus may be a gentle vegetarian like 20th century mountain gorillas-- a trait which may not help it much in the cut throat competition happening among primates today.
		Gigantopithecus may usually move on all fours like the mountain gorillas of the 20th century (though this is uncertain due to complete skeletons of the species being unavailable in the late 20th century).
		Gigantopithecus females may be only 50% the size of their mates.
	www.jrmooneyham.com /homo-erectus-is-building-huts.html (663 words)

	sandiego.citysearch.com > Generic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		His name is Gigantopithecus, he may have stood as much as 10 feet tall, weighed half a ton or more and is thought to have become extinct about 400,000 years ago.
		The museum's Gigantopithecus is 8 feet tall, made of silicone and fiberglass and other synthetics on a steel frame and weighs about 500 pounds.
		Gigantopithecus stands against a bare wall at the moment, but he will be placed in a reconstruction of what was once his natural surroundings of bamboo and a rock cave.
	entertainment.signonsandiego.com /profile/258591?p=1 (456 words)

	Anomalies Article: The Yeti, or "Abominable Snowman"
		Gigantopithecus is an ancestor of the giant ape, first identified in the fossil record by Dutch paleontologist Ralph von Koenigswald (or von Koenigwald) when he found a tooth in a Chinese apothecary shop* in 1934 that he believed belonged to a giant ape tall that lived around half a million years ago.
		In 1954, Dutch zoologist Bernard Huevelmans put forward in a series of articles published in Paris the theory that Gigantopithecus, unable to compete with anatomically modern humans, took to remote mountainous regions to survive and that it is a modern descendant of the huge ape-like creatures that are now called Yeti.
		Unfortunately for this theory, Gigantopithecus doesn't match the average reported height of Yetis'; Yetis average five feet tall, while the Gigantopithecus theoretically averages eight to ten feet (if it stands erect, which it may not).
	anomalyinfo.com /articles/ga00001a.shtml (542 words)

	Gigantopithecus
		Gigantopithecus Blacki is an extinct primate which did exist in Asia approximately 500 000 years ago.
		One theory is that the Gigantopithecus retreated into the Himalayas some 500 000 years ago.
		Another theory suggests that the Gigantopithecus crossed the ice bridge over the Bering Strait from Asia to North America during the last ice age.
	wriversasquatchassoc.net /index9gigantopithecus.html (232 words)

	Cryptomundo.com
		That is quite a long and successful span of coexistence, and Gigantopithecus must have been a formidable “neighbor”–a true giant on the landscape of the world with the little near-humans and humans like so many troublesome distant cousins breeding furiously and taking up living space.
		Among various problems I have with Gigantopithecus, therefore, is the very large size of this ape, which would have put them at the extreme end of any Bigfoot heights recorded in sightings that most people studying these cryptids would consider valid.
		Given the long overlap in time that Gigantopithecus and humans of one form or another inhabited the Asian continent, it seemed reasonable that this large animal could possibly continue to survive today avoiding modern humans with great skill.
	www.cryptomundo.com /cryptozoo-news/giganto-or-paranthropus (5469 words)

	The Superhero Hype! Boards - Yeti? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The body and teeth of Gigantopithecus resembled a gorilla but it stood nine feet tall and weighed 600 lbs.
		Gigantopithecus became extinct around 300,000 years ago, but Chinese scientists believe that some form of the beast exists as the so-called Yeti, or Abominable Snowman.
		It is theorized that the predecessor of man (homo erectus) preyed on Gigantopithecus.
	www.superherohype.com /forums/printthread.php?t=80249 (650 words)

	LiveScience.com - Gigantic Apes Coexisted with Early Humans, Study Finds
		While the idea of a giant ape piqued the interest of scientists – and bigfoot hunters – around the world, it was unclear how long ago this beast went extinct.
		While most scientists agree that Gigantopithecus died out long ago, some people – Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti enthusiasts in particular – believe that this ape is the source of tales of giant, hairy beasts roaming the woods.
		There have been cases in which creatures are first known first by their fossil remains and later found living, such as the coelacanth – a type of fish thought to have died out millions of years ago until it was discovered swimming off the coast of Africa in 1938.
	www.livescience.com /animalworld/051107_giant_ape.html (595 words)

	ABC News: Bigfoot-Sized Ape Lived Alongside Humans
		Exploring remote caves isolated in a densely forested region of southern China, Jack Rink, a professor of geography and earth sciences at McMaster University in Ontario, found fossilized remains of the huge ape.
		This limited diet may have led to the ultimate extinction of Gigantopithecus, who had to compete for forest resources with humans and other animals.
		Since the discovery of Gigantopithecus fossils, some observers have noticed that the primate resembles the giant ape-like humans of worldwide legend — Bigfoot, the "abominable snowman," Sasquatch or the yeti.
	abcnews.go.com /Technology/story?id=1334307 (413 words)

	McMaster Daily News
		Using a high-precision absolute-dating method (techniques involving electron spin resonance and uranium series), Jack Rink, associate professor of geography and earth sciences, at McMaster University, has determined that Gigantopithecus flii, the largest primate that ever lived, roamed southeast Asia for nearly 700,000 years.
		Rink has confirmed the time range for Gigantopithecus as being from one million years ago to 300,000 years ago.
		"Gigantopithecus was in the landscape with homo erectus up until 300,000 years ago, at a time when humans were undergoing a major evolutionary change.
	dailynews.mcmaster.ca /story.cfm?id=3637 (463 words)

	melo: confession
		Gigantopithecus: she was like, trying to convince us that she was still cool.
		Gigantopithecus: some guy will pull up and ill be like "hello, sir, can i interest you in an orgasm, free of charge?"
		Gigantopithecus: and then throw fairy dust in the face of whoever it is.
	www.melodramatic.com /users/confession (388 words)

	The Yeren of China
		Chinese researchers and myself think the Yeren is a descendant of the great fossil ape, Gigantopithecus which lived in Asia between 7 million and 300,000 years ago in the fossil record.
		The gigantopithecus of the fossil record was up to 12 feet tall erect and could have weighed 1000 lbs.
		Because gigantopithecus was the longest living fossil ape, I suspect it had great survival instincts and it evolved a new way of life- bipedally.
	www.cactusventures.com /yeren_of_china.htm (296 words)

	lloyd pye Starchild Bigfoot Sasquatch Gigantopithecus
		The International Society of Cryptozoology consider it quite possible that the Gigantopithecus is one and the same as the reported Yeren, the Chinese Wildman.
		After all, Gigantopithecus flii was an Asian species, or at least that is where the one jawbone relic defining this animal's existence came from.
		If Gigantopithecus really did stand alongside modern humans just 100,000 years ago, then there is an exciting possibility that a race of hairy bipedal giants is still skulking about in the Earth's wildernesses.
	www.darkstar1.co.uk /pye.html (2264 words)

	Ooparts & Ancient High Technology--Giants in Those Days
		It is conceivable that the giantism which has been found to characterize some early fossils of man, could be traced to the same factor.
		In this case history as opposed to genetics, in Portmann's sense of the terms, would possibly explain Gigantopithecus and Meganthropus, and so forth, as well as the grossness of some European forms; and any attempt to fit them into a genetic series would be a waste of time."The Supposed Evolution of the Human Skull
		"the average male Gigantopithecus had a skull that measured eighteen inches from the bottom of the jaw to the highest point of the sagittal crest (a male gorilla, for comparison, has a skull ten inches high)"
	www.s8int.com /giants2.html (1655 words)

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