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	Gigantopithecus
		Gigantopithecus (Latin for "Giant Ape") is an extinct genus of apes.
		In the past, it has been thought that Gigantopithecus was related to the hominids because of molar evidence; now this is regarded a result of convergent evolution, and Gigantopithecus is regarded to be more closely related to the orangutan than to African apes and humans.
		The only known fossils of Gigantopithecus are a few teeth and part of a maxilla (jaw bone).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gi/Gigantopithecus.html (187 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.
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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 to as recently as 100 thousand years ago in what are today the countries of China, India, and Vietnam, placing Gigantopithecus in the same timeframe and geographical location as early hominids, such as Homo erectus.
		It was probably a quadruped and an herbivore and with a diet that consisted primarily of bamboo, possibly supplemented with seasonal fruits, although recent theory suggests it was a generalist in its eating habits.
		Molar (Holotype) of Giganthopithecus fli, in the background Prof.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gigantopithecus (342 words)

	Gigantopithecus sculpture by Kevin Michael Andersen
		Gigantopithecus was a rival of Homo Erectus and lived during the Pleistocene Epoch, 1.8 million to 100,000 years ago.
		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.
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	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).
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	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.
		Anatomically, G. fli is a higher primate of the hominoid superfamily of man and apes.
		Gigantopithecus jaws are exceptionally broad in the back; the horizontal rami diverge toward the rear to a degree unmatched by any other primate.
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	Gigantopithecus blacki
		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 /Zoology/Exctinct/gigantopithecus_blacki.htm (353 words)

	Gigantopithecus blacki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gigantopithecus fli (Latin for "Giant Ape") is an extinct species of apes.
		fli are a few teeth and part of a maxilla (jaw bone) and mandible that were found in cave sites in Asia.
		fli was an ancestor of humans, on the basis of molar evidence; this is now regarded a result of convergent evolution.
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	KING KONG FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gigantopithecus fli lived in south east Asia during the Pleistocene era, going extinct by the end of the era.
		Reconstructing the creature from its jawbone, scientists believe Gigantopithecus was a primate, similar to a gorilla but in the neighborhood of ten feet tall and could weigh upwards of a thousand pounds.
		Whether Gigantopithecus lived behind a wall and had a taste for blondes and an aversion to airplanes and flashbulbs remains unknown.
	www.aboyd.com /kong/kongfaqa14.html (342 words)

	Mike's Giganto Report Page
		The similarity of the dental morphology found in the G. fli specimens with that of the giant panda points to a diet consisting mainly of bamboo, a readily available food source found throughout the range of G. fli (Ciochon et al., 1990b).
		Whether or not this hypothesis is viable, we have teeth and jaws that tell of a giant ape that lived and died long ago in the jungles of Southeast Asia.
		Opal phytoliths on the teeth of the extinct ape Gigantopithecus fli: Implications on paloedietary studies.
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	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)

	Gigantopithecus - Definition up Erdmond.Com
		In the past, it has been thought that ''Gigantopithecus'' was an ancestor of hominids from which humans are descended, such as ''Australopithecus'', on the basis of molar evidence; this is now regarded a result of convergent_evolution.
		In fact, Gigantopithecus is the common ancestor of the Gorilla and the Orangutan (though it is a closer relative of the older Orangutan genus).
		The only known fossils of Gigantopithecus are a few teeth and part of a maxilla (jaw bone) and mandible.
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	gigantopithecus_blacki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gigantopithecus fli (Greek and Latin for "Black's Giant Ape") is an extinct species of ape.
		As the name suggests, these are appreciably larger than those of living gorillas, but the exact size and structure of the rest of the body can only be estimated in the absence of additional findings.
		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.
	www.travelawesomeplaces.com /wiki/?title=Gigantopithecus_blacki (395 words)

	ThothWeb - The Cousin we don’t talk about: What is Bigfoot? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although the size is debated, the diet of Gigantopithecus has been determined from the shape of its teeth and from plant material remaining on some of the fossils.
		Gigantopithecus would have been enormously strong, with the heavily muscled body and limbs Bigfoot-type animals are said to have.
		Overall, the reconstructions of Gigantopithecus are a closer match to the descriptions given for the North American and Central Asian hominids, who are usually said to have pointy heads and very ape-like faces.
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	AMNH Scientific Publications: Item 2246/298
		Gigantopithecus fli von Koenigswald, a giant fossil hominoid from the Pleistocene of southern China.
		"Gigantopithecus fli von Koenigswald is known from four molars bought in Chinese drugstores in Hong Kong and Canton.
		The Ailuropoda-orang fauna of southern China, of which Gigantopithecus is a member, belongs to the (early) Middle Pleistocene.
	digitallibrary.amnh.org /dspace/handle/2246/298 (168 words)

	Gigantopithecus: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		In 1845 Boston had an ordinance banning bathing unless you had a doctor's prescription.
		...Gigantopithecus Gigantopithecus Gigantopithecus Scientific classification...Hominidae Genus : Gigantopithecus Species Gigantopithecus fli Gigantopithecus (Latin for...
		Especially close human relatives form a subfamily, the...
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	Gigantopithecus blacki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gigantopithecus fli, named after Davidson Black, is known only from four lower jaws and about a thousand teeth.
		Judging from their enormous size, Gigantopithecus was the largest primate that ever lived, with males standing at 10 ft tall, and weighing up to 1200 lbs (Ciochon et al., 1990).
		Although it is a giant ape, Gigantopithecus is of no comfort to creationists trying to show the Peking Man was an ape.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/giganto.html (170 words)

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		This raised questions whether the Bigfoot sightings by several individuals, including Orang Asli villagers at the 248 million year old Endau-Rompin National Park, may be the remnants of the Gigantopithecus Blacki (or 'Giant Ape' in Latin) species.
		At the same time, there were similar physical traits between Gigantopithecus and Bigfoot, which according to the Orang Asli folks, the giant animal, which was said to be 10 feet tall, with brown hairy body, was sighted in several jungle spots in Johor.
		Chow, an adviser of an environmental association in the state, said that the Endau-Rompin National Park's age matched that of the era of the giant ape Gigantopithecus which existed in the face of the earth.
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	Ooparts & Ancient High Technology--Giants in Those Days
		"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)"
		Because of the unusually large size of a few of the Homo erectus specimens from Java, Weidenreich came up with the notion that there had been a period of gigantism in human evolution, and that modern humans were the diminutive descendants of these giants.
		In Apes, Giants, and Man, published in 1946, he argued that the Gigantopithecus teeth were humanlike, and that von Koenigswald had been mistaken in considering the animal an ape rather than a member of the human family tree.
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	Krantz: The Origin of the Sasquatch
		Gigantopithecus fli is the largest primate that ever lived, being considerably larger than the gorilla, and about the right size to fit the usual description of our North American Sasquatch.
		This size estimate is based on the sizes of the teeth and lower jaws, which are all we have of this fossil form.
		The suggestion of an especially close relationship between Gigantopithecus and Australopithecus robustus is improbable, as it is based only on the sixth cusp in the lower first molars of both.
	www.bigfootencounters.com /biology/origins.htm (3124 words)

	Bigfoot - Gigantopithecus Blacki presented in Weird section
		A more scientific name shared by some scientists is the Gigantopithecus Blacki, an extinct primate that lived in Asia some 3000,000 years ago and could have found its way to other parts of the world via the land bridge before Asia broke off the mainland.
		In his book, Bigfoot Prints, Krantz shows a jawbone of what he believes a whole skull would have looked like and using it, was able to construct a skull of what he believes a whole skull would look like.
		If Bigfoot is indeed Gigantopithecus Blacki, he may one day be rediscovered and the mystery will finally be solved.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/comments/bigfoot_gigantopithecus_blacki (1130 words)

	so which is it?Bigfoot: Gigantopithecus or Paranthropus - Ghostly Talk
		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.
		Krantz’s reconstruction of Gigantopithecus with a sagittal crest is only logical based on the massive mandibles that have been discovered, which show evidence of heavy chewing probably taking place.
		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.
	www.ghostlytalk.com /node/974 (1131 words)

	bigfoot not related to giganto - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		i would like to challenge the popular theory that bigfoot is a descendent of gigantopithecus fli.
		Gigantopithecus fossils that are 7 or 8 million years old have been found in modern-day India and Pakistan.
		that gigantopithecus is a much older species of primate than the hominids and that it hade no reason to evolve upright so there for it could not be an ancestor of bigfoot or any other reported upright walking ape like creatures.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=65342 (1671 words)

	Cryptomundo.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Given the fact that gigantopithecus has long been the leading candidate for the modern day sasquatch, folks may have a hard time accepting paranthropus as a viable candidate.
		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.
		If required to choose between a species of Gigantopithecus or a species of Paranthropus as the most likely identity of Bigfoot and their kin on the Asian continent, I would unquestionably have to chose the hominid, Paranthropus.
	www.cryptomundo.com /cryptozoo-news/giganto-or-paranthropus (6789 words)

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