A group of Gigantopithecus blacki ... wandering the thick forests of ancient China during the last Ice Age. Why this impressive herbivore went extinct has stumped paleontologists since the ...

Gigantopithecus inhabited a timeframe ranging ... "At that period, a very serious climate change occurred, recognized as the last ice age. The crucial point here is not merely freezing to death ...

If gorillas strike you as intimidating, try to imagine a nearly 10-foot lookalike: that dizzying stat belongs to none other than Gigantopithecus blacki ... around the time of a ‘warm ice age’ that ...

But around 100,000 years ago, at the beginning of the last of the Pleistocene ice ages, it went extinct—because in the changed climate its size had become a fatal handicap, a new study suggests.

(AFP Photo) These narrow preferences did not pose a problem for Gigantopithecus until Earth was struck by a massive ice age during the Pleistocene Epoch, which stretched from about 2.6 million to ...

dating of the Gigantopithecus blacki teeth themselves. By direct-dating the fossil remains, the scientists confirmed the fossils' age aligns with the luminescence sequence in the sediments where ...