Some 330,000 years ago, giant apes the size of elephants roamed the forests of southern China. Their massive teeth—once sold as a “dragon tooth” by a Hong Kong apothecary—gnawed tough leaves and devoured fruit. Then suddenly, while other primates were thriving, these supersized orangutan-like creatures vanished with almost no trace.

  • @[email protected]
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    110 months ago

    maybe if there were 8+ billion of those apes they’d still be alive. but they really sucked at forcing the environment to adapt to them so they went extinct.

    • @chitak166
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      110 months ago

      Just more population that can’t adapt, lol.