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Given that Kate, Rose, and Rusty are investing no effort in policing things. And given that Garry Denke is defining peer reviewed university research as "Non-Science" I guess this is non-science too.

Giant Ape Lived Alongside Humans

A gigantic ape, measuring about 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,200 pounds, co-existed alongside humans, a geochronologist at McMaster University has discovered.

Using a high-precision absolute-dating method (techniques involving electron spin resonance and uranium series), Jack Rink, associate professor of geography and earth sciences at McMaster, has determined that Gigantopithecus blackii, the largest primate that ever lived, roamed southeast Asia for nearly a million years before the species died out 100,000 years ago. This was known as the Pleistocene period, by which time humans had already existed for a million years.

Source:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051112122318.htm

Nice find, Dan. Thanks for posting it.

"Amaranth"

Nice post DA.

Science works:

"Research into Gigantopithecus blackii began in 1935, when the Dutch paleontologist G.H. von Koenigswald discovered a yellowish molar among the "dragon bones" for sale in a Hong Kong pharmacy. Traditional Chinese medicine maintains that dragon bones, basically fossil bones and teeth, possess curative powers when the fossils are ground into a fine powder, and ingested.

For nearly 80 years, Gigantopithecus blackii has intrigued scientists, who have pieced together a description using nothing more than a handful of teeth and a set of jawbones"

We can confirm a 10 foot extinct monster from teeth but we ridicule a potential living "big foot" from "only" a casting of a foot print. I do not intend conflict by this, only that at times it is easier to work in the past than working in the present. Less proof is required.
jjw

posted 14 November, 2005 14:49
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Given that Kate, Rose, and Rusty are investing no effort in policing things. And given that Garry Denke is defining peer reviewed university research as "Non-Science" I guess this is non-science too.

Giant Ape Lived Alongside Humans

A gigantic ape, measuring about 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,200 pounds, co-existed alongside humans, a geochronologist at McMaster University has discovered.

Using a high-precision absolute-dating method (techniques involving electron spin resonance and uranium series), Jack Rink, associate professor of geography and earth sciences at McMaster, has determined that Gigantopithecus blackii, the largest primate that ever lived, roamed southeast Asia for nearly a million years before the species died out 100,000 years ago. This was known as the Pleistocene period, by which time humans had already existed for a million years.

Sure this wasn't a freak ape? It must have been enormous (In the Enid Blyton sense)