The largest ape on record stood almost 10 feet tall (3 meters) and weighed nearly twice as much as a gorilla. Why and when the legendary colossus — which has captivated the popular imagination as “the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This illustration provided by researchers depicts Gigantopithecus blacki in a forest in the Guangxi region of southern China. The ...

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