#Gigantopithecus

Nuki Raccoon: Fedi's Favorite Furry F***posterNuki@yiff.life
2024-12-29

Let's also consider #Gigantopithecus, the largest ape in history, as an example of human-like anatomy in a very large, legitimately bipedal structure.

Estimates of Gigantopithecus range from 2.7 to 3.7 meters, well over that 2.5 m I was talking about with humans, and this is the average height for a species, meaning we know it must be stable because otherwise evolution would have selected against it. Gigantopithecus is believed to have gone extinct due to changing environmental factors, which means it might have been sensitive to environment, but that is less of a concern if we are just talking about whether something that size can be healthy.

Combining our knowledge of these species, and what makes humans unhealthy at that height, we get a picture of a human that is not simply tall, but wide, perhaps very wide, so that the legs can easily support that weight and a lot of organ mass can be held up in the midsection.

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RepeaterSignal Mediarepeatersignal
2024-12-05

My side kick, Fizgig, or at least how he would look if he wasn't bunking in my brain wrinkles.

ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞspacemagick
2024-03-01

over in YouTube's department...

Brandon S. Pilchertyrannohotep@mastodon.art
2024-01-14

King Kong must defend his bride from the predators of his island home!

#kingkong #fanart #gigantopithecus #ape #crocodile #melanesian #blackwoman #womanofcolor #digitalart #art

Matt Willemsenmattotcha
2024-01-14
2024-01-11

10-JAN-2024
The of the giant ape: a long-standing mystery solved (phew, it wasn't human hunters this time!)

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

scinexx - das wissensmagazinscinexx@nrw.social
2024-01-11

Der bis zu drei Meter große Gigantopithecus gilt als größter Primat aller Zeiten. Jetzt könnten Paläontologen geklärt haben, warum dieser Riesenaffe vor rund 300.000 Jahren ausgestorben ist. #Gigantopithecus #Primat #Fossil
scinexx.de/news/biowissen/waru

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺animalculum@scholar.social
2024-01-10

The #extinction of the giant ape: A long-standing mystery solved phys.org/news/2024-01-extincti

The demise of the giant ape #Gigantopithecus blacki nature.com/articles/s41586-023

"G. blacki was the ultimate specialist, compared to the more agile adapters like #orangutans, and this ultimately led to its demise"

An artist impression of a group of G. blacki within a forest in southern China. The apes look like bigger orangutans.
2023-04-15

This month, Origin Stories podcast explores the mysterious tale of the largest #primate that ever lived. #Gigantopithecus blacki is an extinct relative of #orangutans that lived in #SoutheastAsia and stood around 10 feet tall.

leakeyfoundation.org/a-giganto

Cliff Jones Jr.cliffjones@sfba.social
2023-03-09

#TIL the oversized ape King Louie in #Disney's most recent live action version of #TheJungleBook is not actually supposed to be an #orangutan but a remnant #gigantopithecus. This explains the character's baffling size as well as the fact that orangutans aren't native to India. Come to think of it, it even explains why Louie's the only one of his kind!

animals.howstuffworks.com/exti

#movies #DisneyMovies #animation #hominids #paleontology #anthropology #paleoanthropology #biology #animals

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