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Indopithecus giganteus (lit. ' Indian ape ' ) is an extinct species of large ape that lived in the late Miocene of the Siwalik Hills in northern India . Although frequently assigned to the more well-known genus Gigantopithecus , recent authors consider it to be a distinct genus in its own right.
Gigantopithecus (/ d ʒ aɪ ˌ ɡ æ n t oʊ p ɪ ˈ θ i k ə s, ˈ p ɪ θ ɪ k ə s, d ʒ ɪ-/ jy-gan-toh-pi-thee-kuhs, pith-i-kuhs, ji-; [2] lit. ' giant ape ') is an extinct genus of ape that lived in southern China from 2 million to approximately 300,000 to 200,000 years ago during the Early to Middle Pleistocene, represented by one species, Gigantopithecus blacki. [3]
The reasonable options are either to make it all fit in the Gigantopithecus article (which seems fine, given that Gigantopithecus giganteus will never be more than a small subsection), or move most of the material into the sub-articles and leave the Gigantopithecus article as essentially a pair of links. As I said, the first option seems better ...
Reconstruction of Gigantopithecus blacki. The largest known primate of all time was Gigantopithecus blacki, most studies often cite heights around 2.74–3.66 m (9 ft 0 in – 12 ft 0 in) tall and weighing 225–300 kg (496–661 lb). [214] [215] [216] Some suggested that it would not exceed 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) tall with a bipedal posture. [217]
Standing at 9 feet tall and weighing up to 660 pounds, Gigantopithecus blacki was the largest primate to walk the Earth. The giant ape — an herbivore with a fondness for fruit — appeared in ...
By some estimates, Gigantopithecus reached up to 10 feet (3 meters) tall, making it not only the largest-known ape but the biggest primate, the mammalian group that includes lemurs, monkeys, apes ...
Its tooth anatomy is most similar to that of other dryopithecine great apes.Having both adaptations for hanging in trees (suspensory locomotion) and standing on two legs (), Danuvius may have been very similar in locomotory methods to the last common ancestor between humans and other apes, which adds weight to the hypothesis that ape suspensory activity and human bipedalism both originated ...
During his academic career, he visited sites in North and South Africa (1951–52), the Philippines, Thailand and Borneo (1957), and Pakistan (1966–67). In Pakistan, Von Koenigswald and his students found specimens which included a palate assigned to a new species of the hominoid genus Sivapithecus and teeth considered to belong to Ramapithecus .