Ancient Proteins Tell Story Of Gigantopithecus, Largest-Ever Primate
Discover Magazine - Wed 13 Nov 19Artist's rendering of how large Gigantopithecus blacki may have been. In life, G. blacki would have spent most of its time on all fours. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) There's nothing small ...
Ancient enamel sheds light on extinct giant ape
Cosmos Magazine - Wed 13 Nov 19Now we have some information to go with this face.
Huge mysterious ape Gigantopithecus was a distant cousin of orangutans
Newscientist - Wed 13 Nov 19A pioneering technique has given us a glimpse at the family tree of Gigantopithecus, an extinct ape that was 2.5 metres tall and lived 300,000 years ago
A tooth fossil shows Gigantopithecus’ close ties to modern orangutans
ScienceNews - Wed 13 Nov 19Proteins from the past help clarify how an ancient Asian ape that was larger than a full-grown, modern male gorilla evolved.
Secrets of the largest ape that ever lived
BBC News - Wed 13 Nov 19The fossilised tooth of a mysterious extinct ape is shedding new light on the evolution of great apes.
Extinct giant ape directly linked to the living orangutan
Phys.org - Wed 13 Nov 19By using ancient protein sequencing, researchers have retrieved genetic information from a 1.9 million year old extinct, giant primate that used to live in a subtropical area in southern China. ...
Extinct giant ape directly linked to the living orangutan, ScienceDaily - Thu 14 Nov 19Extinct giant ape directly linked to the living orangutan, Eurekalert - Wed 13 Nov 19
University of Missouri loses suit over records of dogs and cats used in research
Phys.org - Tue 12 Nov 19A Boone County, Mo., judge has ruled that University of Missouri violated the state's open records law by placing an exorbitantly high price tag on records sought by a California animal rescue ...
Giant extinct primate is directly related to orangutans
ZME Science - Thu 14 Nov 19It is the first time genetic material this old has been retrieved from a fossil in a subtropical area.
Incredible collection of prehistoric animals preserved in AMBER go up for sale in the UK
Daily Mail - Thu 14 Nov 19The 12 translucent lumps of the prehistoric resin date back to when dinosaurs walked the earth. The collection is to go under the hammer with Summers Place Auctions of Billinghurst, West Sussex.
Missing link found? 'Original Bigfoot' was close relative of orangutan, study says
FOXNews - Thu 14 Nov 19The legendary Bigfoot has long been thought of as the "missing link" between apes and humans. In a stunning discovery, scientists have unearthed new evidence of the so-called "original Bigfoot," ...
Giant ape that lived two million years ago is closely related to modern-day orangutans NOT humans
Daily Mail - Wed 13 Nov 19The molar of an ancient ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, has revealed it is closely related to modern-day orangutans.
Closest Relative of Extinct 'Bigfoot' Found
Livescience - Wed 13 Nov 19Gigantopithecus, an enormous extinct ape that lived in Asia millions of years ago, was a close relative of the modern orangutan.
China's huge mysterious extinct ape 'Giganto' was an orangutan cousin
Reuters - Wed 13 Nov 19Genetic 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 ...
Steady, Reliable Wind Power Wins Over Coal-Crazy Missouri
CleanTechnica - Sun 17 Nov 19Wind power, not coal power, will anchor a new industrial park in Sedalia, Missouri with the help of a new federally funded rail connection (socialism!)
Protein sequencing links ancient giant ape with modern orangutan
UPI - Thu 14 Nov 19Using a technique called protein sequencing, scientists have linked an extinct giant ape that lived nearly 2 million years ago with the lineage that yielded modern orangutans.
Fossil dig leads to unexpected discovery of 91-million-year-old shark new to science
AlphaGalileo - Mon 18 Nov 19A 91-million-year-old fossil shark newly namedCretodus houghtonorumdiscovered in Kansas joins a list of large dinosaur-era animals. Preserved in sediments deposited in an ancient ocean called ...
Oldest molecular information to date illuminates the history of extinct Gigantopithecus
Eurekalert - Wed 13 Nov 19(Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona) In the study, published in Nature, the team rebuilds multiple dental enamel proteins from an approximately two million-year-old Gigantopithecus molar fossil.