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The largest ape that ever walked the Earth, Gigantopithecus blacki, lived in what is now China and went extinct between 295,000โ€“215,000 years ago.

๐Ÿ“ Height: ~3 meters (9.8 ft)

โš–๏ธ Weight: 200โ€“300 kg (441โ€“661 lbs)

๐Ÿ“ธ Image: Paleo-anthro sculptor Bill Munns with his Giganto reconstruction in his Los Angeles backyard.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06900-0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus

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[โ€“] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Haha well that is much darker and sounds like a good premise for a science fiction / fantasy. I think star trek had a story like that. And planet of the apes / the time machine.

Crazy enough, there have been attempts to create a hybrid between an chimpanzee and a human. Luckily, none succeeded lol

that reminds me of a joke.

A lab wants to make a human chimp hybrid,. they put an ad, listing 500$ for volunteers for an experiment.

100 volunteers come in, the scientists explains them they of they accept, they'll have to have sex with a gorilla for 500$.

99 of the volunteers refuse immediately.

one accepts

on the day of the experiment the volunteer asks, those 500$ do I pay them now or after?