An online photograph shows a man standing next to a genuine Gigantopithecus, the largest ape known to ever live. Rating: ...

German-Dutch paleontologist G.H.R. von Koenigswald first identified Gigantopithecus blacki about a century ago from large teeth sold as medicinal “dragon bones” at a Hong Kong apothecary.

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 ...