China's huge mysterious extinct ape 'Giganto' was an orangutan cousin
Saturday, November 30, 2019 - 12:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Genetic material extracted from a 1.9 million-year-old fossil tooth from southern China shows that the world's largest-known ape - an extinct creature dubbed "Giganto" that once inhabited Southeast Asia - was an oversized cousin of today's orangutans.