Giant 'kings of apes' once roamed southern China. We solved the mystery of their extinction
- Written by Kira Westaway, Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
Artist's impression of a group of Gigantopithecus blacki in a forest in southern China.Garcia/Joannes-Boyau (Southern Cross University)Giant creatures are usually associated with dinosaurs, woolly mammoths or mystical beasts. But if you go back though the human lineage you’ll find a very distant relative that stood three metres tall and...





