In late December 2023, a photograph went viral on social media, allegedly depicting Gigantopithecus, "an extinct genus of ape that existed from two million years to as recently as 100,000 years ago." ...

Gigantopithecus blacki was a giant ape in southern China that may have reached about 3 meters tall and 200–300 kg. New research suggests it declined between 295,000 and 215,000 years ago as tropical ...

Discover how big the prehistoric primate Gigantopithecus really was.