gigantopithicus

• another name is "giant ape 
• it was named by gustav heinrich ralph von koenigswald in 1935 
• it was estimated 
• they were discovered through a few hundreds of teeth and a few mandables ( lower jaws 
• in 1935 gustav discovered gigantopithecus while visiting a chinese apothecary shop in hong kong where he found an unusual 
• they were found to be herbivores, their diet consits mostly of plants. this was inferred by the shape of their mouth and their wide flat teeth 
• g.blacki ( southeast asia) mostly ate bamboo 
• there is not one single event that could help paleontologists 
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