Why Gigantopithecus Had Been So Popular Till Now?

                                                              

 ABOUT GIGANTOPITHECUS:

• Gigantopithecus is an extinct ape genus which lived approx. 6 million to 200,000 years ago - from the Miocene period through the Pleistocene period.
• Surprisingly, the first fossils of this ape were found in an apothecary shop in china by Ralph von koenigswald.
• If you take a close look at Gigantopithecus, especially ones that depict these apes were given their name.
• They were enormous-standing approximately 9 feet tall and weighing around 1,000 pounds.
• They are great in size, 12 to 20 times stronger than a modern human being.

ARE THEY STILL ALIVE?

• Some cryptozoologists believe that these apes never went extinct.
• They believe that they are still living in Himalayan Mountains in the name Yeti.
• However these are just rumours spreaded by someone, but there is no any incredible evidence to prove that they are still alive.

WHAT THEY USUALLY EAT?

                                             

• Gigantopithecus  normally had an unusual diet.
• Examine the cavities of the fossilized teeth of these apes, scientists have concluded that they will be mostly bamboo eaters - like our modern Pandas today.
• Scientists can't say whether these apes were walked using their knuckles like normal gorillas or are they capable of walking like a Human being.
• Some of them says that they used to walk using their 4 legs, but in a needed time they can stand with their 2 legs like humans.