Replica Gigantopithecus Jaw ground hog Australia and Southeast Asia

Australia and Southeast Asia

Origin: Zambia

Skull Width: 9 in

As an adaptation to underwater nocturnal feeding

The grizzly is a large carnivore weighing up to 750 lbs

Replica Gigantopithecus Jaw ground hog Australia and Southeast AsiaGigantopithecus is believed to be the largest primate to have ever lived. Although quadrupedal, when standing on it's hind limbs, Gigantopithecus would have stood nearly ten foot tall and weighed around 1200 lbs. This prehistoric relative of modern orangutans lived between 1. 3 and . 3 MYA. This reconstruction of the skull of Gigantopithecus was made by Grover Krantz. Krantz, a professor at Washington State University, was a proponent of the idea that