Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The International Business Times claims that Gigantopethicus, a huge ape which died out 100,000 years ago in China, may instead have been driven by Climate Change to cross the Bering Strait.
According to the IBT;
Gigantopithecus, Asia’s ‘King Kong,’ died due to climate change
The biggest ape to roam the Earth went extinct 100,000 years ago because the species was not able to adapt to just consuming savannah grass after climate change hit its favoured diet of forest fruit, according to scientists. Weighing five times as much as an adult man and standing up to three metres tall, Gigantopithecus, the closest nature ever came to producing a real King Kong, was still not invincible enough to survive drastic climate changes.
The species lived in semi-tropical forests in southern China and mainland Southeast Asia. Scientists say that the Gigantopithecus was the closest modern cousin of orangutans. Experts around the world did not know why the animal went extinct. In fact, when fossils were discovered in the 1930s, the Gigantopithecus’ teeth were sold as dragon’s teeth in Hong Kong.
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However, other apes and early humans in Africa survived the transition by switching their diets to eat the leaves, roots and grass grown in their new environment, Phys.org reports. The Gigantopethicus lacked the physiological ability and ecological flexibility to resist stress and food shortage. Other experts, most notably Grover Krantz, suggested that the Gigantopithecus may have survived and migrated from Asia over the Bering straits.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com.au/gigantopithecus-asias-king-kong-died-due-climate-change-1497636
Grover Krantz believed in Bigfoot. During his career Krantz made serious contributions to anthropology, but his efforts to prove the existence of giant apes living in the American wilderness, have largely been dismissed.
In the field of Anthropology, it takes more evidence than a theoretical model, a few questionable proxies (plaster casts of alleged “footprints”), and a dodgy film reel, to establish a theory as “settled science”.
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Just ask Bubbles in Trailer Park Boys …. its a Samsquantch ……….
Gigantopithecus was very delicious.
How come National Geo and other publications can only get blurry photos of “big foot” Kind of like the blurry photos of the UFOs etc.?
Might say the same about the error bars on their climate models. Those are ‘fuzzy’ as well.
Bigfoot left big carbon footprint. Caused own demise.
The Global Warming Nut-Scientists keep getting nuttier and nuttier…..
Fair le well Gigantopethicus Albert A. Gore Jr., fair le well across river Styx.
Ha ha
“In the field of Anthropology, it takes more evidence than a theoretical model, a few questionable proxies (plaster casts of alleged “footprints”), and a dodgy film reel, to establish a theory as “settled science”.”
That may be true for Anthropology but a theoretical model, a few questionable proxies, and a dodgy film reel (Inconvenient Truth) are plenty good for Climatology.
Touché!
Interesting how the message here is climate change, regardless of cause, is a hideous threat to living world. That is an example of adjusting the framework to shift the precept of climate change into the cloud of fearful terms. Own the language and you own first impressions.
Climate change is phony, at least in the past 120 years, and Bigfoot is real. I’m not kidding. Study it.
I agree- they show up in both ice cores and tree rings.
Show up in tree rings? Is that anything like those pancakes that look like Jesus?
This is a light hearted thread so I’ll keep it short. The picture of the mountain gorilla reminded me of my work with the Dian Fossey organisation (in the last century). The gorillas in Uganda / Rwanda were and are threatened by war, farming and the bush meat trade – not in the least by climate. One of the many things we’ll screw up with our planet if we keep channelling all our resources into CO2 reduction.
Absolutely – even the greens are starting to wake up that important conservation issues are slipping, because of the climate insanity. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/01/04/greens-diversifying-away-from-the-dying-climate-issue/
Climate change is attributed to frcing “Lucy” from the trees to stand up-right in grass ~4.5MYA. Must have been due to all that coal being burnt and gas guzzling SUV’s then eh?
….The International Business Times claims that Gigantopethicus, a huge ape which died out 100,000 years ago in China, may instead have been driven by Climate Change to cross the Bering Strait…
Er…surely the climate has remained static and unchanging until 1980? If it hasn’t, then modern warming might just be natural variation…?
Here’s a kiwi humor about bigfoot
ROTFLMAO !! Stop..it hurts….
“Climate Change” increased UFO alien abductions as well.
If climate change can cause more meteorites to hit the earth, then surely it would cause an increase in alien visitation as well.
Not just UFO visits, but abductions of true believers to tune their chakras so they can keep their faith alive.
There are some fringies who say Gigantopithecus is not extinct, but has adapted to nearly all habitats in North America. Who do you want to listen to?
Watch them play every Sunday on TV, football thrives thanks to the sons of the Giant Apes.
Bigfoot aside, the big boogeyman here is climate change. The irony is that they are talking about climate change of the cooling kind, not warming. But that’s the beauty of the Climatist ideology. Boiling it down, climate change is BAD, and we humans are causing climate change. Therefore, we need to go back to living in mud huts and caves, in the dark and cold, and eating leaves and twigs. That is our punishment, and how we can be absolved of our “climate sins”.
Climate change also allowed the ancestors of the indigenous populations to migrate to the Americas; was that a bad thing?
was that a bad thing
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it was for the people that were already living there.
there is evidence that humans were living in the Americas at least 60k years ago, long before the invasion from Asia 15k years ago. but of course, no one bothers to dig deeper than 20k years ago, because the science is settled. and it would throw a huge money wrench into “first nations” land claims.
as though any of the people that settled the Americas are alive today. I’m still waiting for my check from France for the Norman conquest of Britain, and my check from Scandinavia for the Viking invasion before that.
In point of fact, Italy should be paying huge land claims to the UK for the Roman invasion.
What evidence is there for people in America before the land bridge? Please do tell. If you think that it’s just “no one is looking”. That’s silly. That’s the sort of upheaval that gets you into history books.
So how does he know that the ‘migration’ didn’t occur in the opposite direction? That King Kong originated in NA and migrated across the Bering Straight to China?
It seems to me that for the Bering Straight to be a land bridge there would have to have been considerable ice to lock up enough water to expose a land passage to NA. Given that I would expect that it was a tad bit too cold in those areas to support King Kong’s favored diet on his ‘long march’ through Siberia and Alaska. IF he couldn’t survive the change from forest to grassland how exactly could he have survived marching over vast stretches of ice? Pure speculation of course.
how exactly could he have survived marching over vast stretches of ice?
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just like some animals adapted to eating grass, Bigfoot adapted to eating ice. The Yeti is proof that Bigfoot did not die out in Asia.
The Bering Strait is only ~100m deep now. With the water tied up in the the glacial maximum, sea-level was down 120m or so – ergo, dry land connecting Asia to North America.
Little known fact, gigantopithacus could fly. Here’s an artist’s recreation of what the creature may have looked like
“may instead have been driven by ..” binned.
Ancestors of the indigenous populations could cross the Bering Strait to America during the Ice Age, because they had
1. fire
2. cloth
3. language
4. tools
5. fire
6. fire
Gigantopithecus had none of these and his favoured diet of forest fruit was certainly not available there.
Now, I know fire is bad, because it releases CO2, still, that was the first thing that made us human.
We could not even walk upright without it, because in the open savanna there is no other way to keep night predators at bay, no bedding in trees, that is. What is more, digestion of cooked food needs much less guts, so we could get rid of that as well, still increasing energy uptake, needed for brainwork. Neither we need huge chewing muscles any more, covering the entire head, which made room for some more brain development. We could also escape the Tropics, with no body hair to speak of, because we invented cloth and fire kept us warm while sleeping in the cold.
That’s what people waging war on fire tend to forget about, so they are left with Gigantopithecus on pristine ice, consuming imaginary forest fruit, jumping up-and-down to keep itself warm using the energy of said fruits. Hilarious.
That’s what people waging war on fire tend to forget about
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When humans first discovered fire, and used it to advance across the surface of the earth, you can be sure there were those that wanted nothing to do with fire, that said fire was evil, and that it was the greatest threat facing human beings. The ancestors of those people are still alive today. Living in the tropical jungles of the earth. Here is a picture:
We need to get back to our roots! If we don’t, we’re doomed!
…Daddy ?????
Gigantopithecus was an early humanoid environmentalist-like species whose nature caused it to refuse adaptation and make insufficient progress when faced with change, the result was inevitable. Progress and adaption is essential in the real world.
John
Oops, ‘are’ not ‘is’ essential . . . .
Well, ‘adaptation’ actual does mean the same as ‘adaption’ . . . .
John
What!!!!! Climate Change 100,000 years ago. I thought only humans were responsible!
..Dinosaur farts ??
Lot’s of lag time !! LOL
Hey, this made onto FoxNews…..but they didn’t mention any climate change !!
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4687722980001/science-explains-the-real-king-kongs-sad-demise/?intcmp=hpvid1#sp=show-clips