What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape? | Eons

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What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape? | Eons

Probably twice the size of a modern gorilla, Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates, there are some lessons to be learned in how it lived, and why it disappeared.
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