Bigfoot. Abominable snowman. Abominable snowman. The Despicable Snowman. At all you gratify to call it, such a giant, fictional ape is not real-at smallest amount, not anymore. But supercilious than a million soul ago, an ape as big as a polar stroll lived in South Asia, until going over 300,000 soul ago. Scientists first scholarly of "Gigantopithecus" in 1935, to the same extent Ralph von Koenigswald, a German paleoanthropologist, walked appearing in a pharmacy in Hong Kong and found an strangely famous monkey molar for sale. Bearing in mind later, researchers stand cool hundreds of "Gigantopithecus "teeth and a number of bragging in Collectibles, Vietnam and India. Based on these fossils, it appears"Gigantopithecus" was warmly chance to modern orangutans and "Sivapithecus", an ape that lived in Asia about 12 to 8 million soul ago. Plus presently dentition to go on, it's harsh to piece coupled what this primeval was while. But based on comparisons moreover gorillas and other modern apes, researchers set a price "Gigantopithecus" stood supercilious than 10 feet tall and weighed 1,200 pounds (at most, gorillas presently set of scales 400 pounds). Detail their dimension, they in all probability lived on the ground, walking on their fists while modern orangutans. Contact More: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/01/did-bigfoot-really-exist-how-gigantopithecus-became-extinct/
