The largest ape is Gigantopithecus blacki. It stood 9.8 feet tall and weighed 500 kg. Chinese traditional medicine uses the animal’s fossilised teeth and bones. They resided in bamboo forests and were Asian. According to studies, they were herbivores.
Scientific classification of Gigantopithecus blacki is as follows:
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Primates
- Family: Hominidae
- Genus: Gigantopithecus
- Species: G. blacki
- Binomial name: Gigantopithecus blacki
A single species of the extinct large ape known as Gigantopithecus, or Gigantopithecus blacki, lived in southern China between 2 million and 350,000 years ago. It is the only member of the genus Gigantopithecus.
Because it had strong teeth for chewing and grinding leaves and other plants, G. blacki, most likely had forest habitats and were herbivores.
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