This is amazing, a gigantic species of ape was living concurrently with modern humans for tens of thousands of years!
This discovery was made on the basis of very large teeth that are rare, but sometimes found in the Chinese countryside and sold to traditional medicine shops. The molars on this ape were about 1 inch square! Estimations of it's size make it about the same as a polar bear! (and it was a vegetarian)
http://www.uiowa.edu/~bioanth/giganto.html
http://www.kandervision.com/gigqna.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus
This discovery was made on the basis of very large teeth that are rare, but sometimes found in the Chinese countryside and sold to traditional medicine shops. The molars on this ape were about 1 inch square! Estimations of it's size make it about the same as a polar bear! (and it was a vegetarian)
http://www.uiowa.edu/~bioanth/giganto.html
http://www.kandervision.com/gigqna.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus