The largest ape on record stood almost 10 feet tall (3 meters) and weighed nearly twice as much as a gorilla. Why and when the legendary colossus — which has captivated the popular imagination as “the ...

King Kong may be able to fight off Godzilla, climb the Empire State building and swat helicopters out of the sky, but his real-life counterpart had more trouble with climate change, a study has found.

Estimating how big Gigantopithecus really grew and what limited its size. Why Venezuela’s oil may be far more trouble than it ...

The largest known primate went extinct between 295,000 and 215,000 years ago, probably driven by its inability to adapt its food preferences amid a changing climate. A relative of today’s orangutans, ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, a massive ape ruled the forests of Asia. Gigantopithecus stood taller and heavier than ...

In late December 2023, a photograph went viral on social media, allegedly depicting Gigantopithecus, "an extinct genus of ape that existed from two million years to as recently as 100,000 years ago." ...