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How the largest primate to roam Earth went extinct
Axios ^ | January 10, 2024 | Jacob Knutson

Posted on 01/10/2024 5:05:40 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: Fai Mao

GMTA


41 posted on 01/11/2024 5:36:10 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Red Badger. They were probably hunted out or outcompeted by hungry Homos.

42 posted on 01/11/2024 8:15:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: SunkenCiv

More likely eaten.


43 posted on 01/11/2024 8:19:00 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: Peter ODonnell

My son hasn’t talked to me since I passed that one on to him...


44 posted on 01/11/2024 8:20:07 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Could these have been the ‘giants’, Nephilim , of the Old Testament?..........


45 posted on 01/11/2024 8:23:44 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

The Nephilim stories probably grew out of fossil forms sticking out of eroded cliffs and during excavations for foundations and the like.

https://www.amazon.com/First-Fossil-Hunters-Paleontology-Times/dp/0691058636

https://freerepublic.com/tag/adriennemayor/index?tab=articles

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nephilim

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nephilim

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/hebrew-bible/who-are-the-nephilim/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim


46 posted on 01/11/2024 8:35:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Hungry Homos. I remember them. They were big on MTV back in the early 80s.


47 posted on 01/11/2024 8:35:58 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Red Badger

Gigantopithecus Blacki Lives Matter.


48 posted on 01/11/2024 8:54:04 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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I was wonder when someone would..............48 posts....................


49 posted on 01/11/2024 8:56:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I have Roger Rabbit Syndrome, I couldn’t help myself.

I did search the posts first, though.


50 posted on 01/11/2024 9:05:47 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: SunkenCiv

As always, thanks for your information comments, and GGG pings.


51 posted on 01/11/2024 9:17:33 AM PST by gleeaikin ( Question authority)
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To: Red Badger

Plenty of apes around. They adapted. So did us humans.


52 posted on 01/11/2024 3:01:02 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Red Badger

Extrapolating size is one thing. Stating how they went extinct is another thing completely.


53 posted on 01/13/2024 4:52:56 AM PST by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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