Gigantopithecus

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek Γίγαντος (Gígantos) (genitive of Γίγας (Gígas, “Giant”)) + πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape”).

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A taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae – an ape that existed from roughly one million years to as recently as three-hundred thousand years ago, in what is now China, India, and Vietnam.
- 1983, Valjean McLenighan, China, A History to 1949‎ (in English), Chicago: Children's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:
  The first real human beings in China lived about 600,000 years ago. Fossils of Gigantopithecus, a Latin name for Giant Ape, were dug up at Lan-t'ien in the early 1960s. Though they looked a lot like apes, the Lan-t'ien people were among the first of our species to make tools.
- 2019 November 13, Katie Hunt, “‘Real King Kong’ primate was related to the orangutan”, in CNN‎ (in English):
  Scientists have estimated that the extinct ape, known as Gigantopithecus blacki, stood almost 10 foot high (3 meters) and was twice the weight of gorilla, but no complete skull or any other bone from the rest of the skeleton has been found, leading to a lot of speculation. […] Cappellini cautioned that the study’s findings didn’t mean the Gigantopithecus would necessarily look like an orangutan.

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