Gigantic Apes Coexisted with Early Humans, Study Finds

Gigantic Apes Coexisted with Early Humans, Study Finds
By Bjorn Carey
LiveScience Staff Writer

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.
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/051107%5Fgiant%5Fape.html

Good start to the day...
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they they bred with PIGS, not humans!

:rofl:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2005-11-08-giant-gorilla_x.htm

Jack Rink of Canada's McMaster University concludes that the largest primate that ever lived, Gigantopithecus blackii, lived in Asia for nearly 1 million years before dying out about 100,000 years ago.
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The gorilla had molars that measured 1 inch across, which was useful in its vegetarian diet.
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But some researchers have suggested it lived even more recently and contributed to legends such as Bigfoot.

The finding has been submitted to a research journal for publication.

At least evolution-wise.

and become governor of a large American state (for a few more months anyway).

I know for an undisputable fact that the world is only 5000 years old. How could Noah get these critters on the ark with the dinosaurs. Sorry, you are wrong again.

one that did the timeless sketch "The President's Brain is Missing"] and said Noah was married to an ape.....

Genesis 6 Verse 4

"There were giants in the earth in those days..."

That's the King James version I'm looking at

:-)

Genesis 6:4


The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. (WEB)

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. (ASV)

There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name. (BBE)

In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne children to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown. (DBY)

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. (KJV)

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them: the same became mighty men, who were of old, men of renown. (WBS)

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. (JPS)

The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they 'are' the heroes, who, from of old, 'are' the men of name. (YLT)

was in the Middle East, namely the Neanderthals. They weren't necessarily bigger than the modern humans, but they had more well-developed muscles, and the average Neanderthal was much stronger than the average human.

The "giants in the earth" passage could be an ancestral memory of the days when modern humans and Neanderthals coexisted, as they did for at least several thousand years.

In the section titled "precise dating".
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