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Gigantopithecus blacki in a forest in the Guangxi region of southern China.
Extinct Relatives? The species Gigantopithecus blacki, which once lived in southern China, represents the largest great ape known ,standing 10 feet tall and weighing up to 650 pounds The species of great ape was likely driven to extinction hundreds of thousands of years ago when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach during dry seasons. They were so huge they were not able to climb trees to reach their food. The giant apes, which likely resembled modern orangutans, survived for around 2 million years on the forested plains of China’s Guangxi region. They ate vegetarian diets, fruits and flowers in tropical forests, until the environment began to change. The researchers analyzed pollen and residue samples preserved in Guangxi’s caves,and fossil teeth, to figure out how forests produced fewer fruits starting around 600,000 years ago, as the region experienced more dry seasons. They didn’t die out right away, but likely went extinct sometime between 215,000 and 295,000 years ago. While smaller apes may have been able to climb trees to search for different food, the researchers’ analysis shows the giant apes ate more tree bark, reeds and other non-nutritious food. There has been no complete skelton of these grrat apes found yet, and all the information has been derived from jaw bones and teeth. Between around 2 million and 22 million years ago, several dozen species of great apes inhabited Africa, Europe and Asia, fossil records show. Today, only gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and humans remain. So to those of you readers who do not believe in climate change, here is an example of what is happening on the planet right now and will continue to happen if humans don’t make the needed changes.
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