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Gigantic Apes Coexisted With Early Humans, Study Finds
foxnews.com ^
| November 9, 2005
| Bjorn Carey
Posted on 11/09/2005 1:28:12 PM PST by mlc9852
A gigantic ape standing 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,200 pounds lived alongside humans for over a million years, according to a new study.
Fortunately for the early humans, the huge primate's diet consisted mainly of bamboo.
Scientists have known about Gigantopithecus blackii since the accidental discovery of some of its teeth on sale in a Hong Kong pharmacy about 80 years ago.
While the idea of a giant ape piqued the interest of scientists — and bigfoot hunters — around the world, it was unclear how long ago this beast went extinct.
Precise dating
Now Jack Rink, a geochronologist at McMaster University in Ontario, has used a high-precision absolute-dating method to determine that this ape — the largest primate ever — roamed Southeast Asia for nearly a million years before the species died out 100,000 years ago during the Pleistocene period. By this time, humans had existed for a million years.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: anthropology; bigfoot; blackii; cryptobiology; gigantopithecus; godsgravesglyphs; hominins; paleontology; primatology; sasquatch
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:28:12 PM PST
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mlc9852
To: mlc9852
They still do!
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:29:42 PM PST
by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
To: mlc9852
Scientists have known about Gigantopithecus blackii since the accidental discovery of some of its teeth on sale in a Hong Kong pharmacy about 80 years ago. I'm curious, were the giant ape's teeth a well know aphrodisiac?
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:29:54 PM PST
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frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: All
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:29:56 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(I'm really BagdadBob under the witness protection program.)
To: Phantom Lord
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:30:13 PM PST
by
misterrob
To: Phantom Lord
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:31:31 PM PST
by
SMARTY
To: mlc9852
"You talkin' about me?!?!?"
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:31:39 PM PST
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: mlc9852
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:37:35 PM PST
by
msnimje
("People for the American Way have issued a Fatwah against Alito" --- John Cornyn)
To: Phantom Lord
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:37:36 PM PST
by
mlc9852
To: Phantom Lord
To: mlc9852
And they said on TV that humans were only around for 30,000 years. Who is a guy to believe?
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:39:20 PM PST
by
mountainlyons
(Still angry after all these years!)
Comment #14 Removed by Moderator
To: mlc9852
King Kong? Mighty Joe Young? Charlie, Enoch, Candy?
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:44:33 PM PST
by
jimfree
(Freep and Ye shall find.)
To: Phantom Lord
Why did we have to bring this up? I've had this
recurring nightmare. I dream that I've had this
drunken night on the town and wake up with these two
ugly women on my right and left arms. I look to my
left and see Hillary Clinton. I look to my right and
see Janet Reno.
My mind is made up. I have to gnaw both arms off at the
shoulder. Then I look at the night stand and see my
dentures in a glass of water on the night stand. It's
at that point that I wake myself up screaming.
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:48:11 PM PST
by
davisfh
To: mlc9852
Wow....just look how close the match is here!!!
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:54:25 PM PST
by
ICE-FLYER
(God bless and keep the United States of America)
To: mlc9852
Wow....just look how close the match is here!!!
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posted on
11/09/2005 1:54:27 PM PST
by
ICE-FLYER
(God bless and keep the United States of America)
To: davisfh
My lord man...How can you sleep. I would want Freddy from Nighmare on Elm Street to visit rather than deal with your nighmare.
To: ICE-FLYER
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