Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The largest primate ever to walk the Earth went extinct because it could not adapt to its changing environment, with the mighty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist impression of the giant ape, G. blacki. Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of why the largest ape ever to walk ...

The largest ever primate Gigantopithecus blacki went extinct when other Asian great apes were thriving, and its demise has long been a mystery. A massive regional study of 22 caves in southern China ...

This illustration provided by researchers depicts Gigantopithecus blacki in a forest in the Guangxi region of southern China. Garcia/Joannes-Boyau AP Standing at 9 feet tall and weighing up to 660 ...

This illustration provided by researchers depicts Gigantopithecus blacki in a forest in the Guangxi region of southern China. The extinct species of great ape that once stood around 10 feet tall and ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists suspect climate change is the culprit behind extinction of the largest species of great apes to ever walk the planet. The specios Gigantopithecus blacki, which lived for about ...

Gigantopithecus was the largest ape known to have existed, living in the forests of southern China during the Pleistocene.

Gigantopithecus was the largest ape to ever walk the Earth. Standing taller and heavier than any human, it dominated prehistoric forests. But size became a liability when environments shifted. Diet ...

NEW YORK — The largest primate ever to walk the Earth went extinct because it could not adapt to its changing environment, with the mighty beast reduced to living off bark and twigs before dying off, ...