Gigantopithecus blacki was thought to stand nearly three metres tall and tip the scales at 600kg. In an astonishing advance, scientists have obtained molecular evidence from a two-million-year-old ...
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It was 9ft tall and called Gigantopithecus. Its closest known living relative is the orangutan, but Sir David Attenborough believes that descendants of Gigantopithecus might still be surviving in ...