WASHINGTON (AP) — An ancient species of a large simio likely went extinct for miles when the climate changed and its favorite fruits were unavailable during aftereffect periods, scientists report temperatures.
The species Gigantopithecus blacki, which lived in China, is the largest gigantic simian known to scientists, with a height of 3.04 meters (10 pies) and a weight of 294 kilos (650 pounds).
But your height might also allow you to enjoy an adventure.
“It looked like an enormous animal; really big,” said Renaud Joannes-Boyau, a researcher at Australia’s Southern Cross University and co-author of the study published in the journal Nature. “When the food comes to scale, it’s great to eat it with the trees to explore new sources of food”.
These gigantic simios, which are probably similar to today’s orangutans, survived for 2 million years in the forest lands of the Guangxi region of present-day China. You eat a vegetarian diet of flowers and fruits until the environment begins to change.
Investigators are analyzing traces of polen and sediments preserved in the Guangxi basins, along with the same amount of fossil substances, to cause them to cause forests to begin producing fewer fruits for 600,000 years, while the region experiment longer.
Similar giants won’t disappear quickly, as they will likely become extinct at some point in a period spanning between 215,000 and 295,000 years ago, according to investigators.
While smaller simios may have to work on trees in search of different foods, the investigators’ analysis will show that simios gigantes feed more on tree corteza, juveniles and other non-nutritious foods. .
“When the forest changes, we don’t have enough food for the preferred species,” said Zhang Yingqi, of the China Institute of Vertebra Paleontology and Paleoanthropology and co-author of the study.
Most of scientists’ knowledge of extinct larges comes from the study of fossil teeth and four large lower mandibles, all of which originated in China. You haven’t discovered the complete skeleton.
Between 2 and 22 million years ago, various species of large animals living in Africa, Europe, and Asia began to be recorded in the fossil record. Currently, only gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and humans are alive.
Although the first were human surgeons in Africa, ignorant scientists on the continent have operated on the family of great fellows, such as Rick Potts, who directs the human origins program at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of Natural History and n did not participate in the study.
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