We human beings belong to a very exclusive group of animals. There are only four types of "great apes" in existence today, those being humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas. As the name "great ...

Standing up to 3 meters tall and weighing 300 kilograms, Gigantopithecus blacki was the largest ape to ever live. Fossils from China, Vietnam, and Thailand show it thrived for 1.5 million years before ...