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”.
Killed by climate change, thats code for killed by colder climate?
In the field of anthropology. ……settled science.
Not really. “Piltdown man. ” turned out to be a pigs tooth but a whole race was built off it.
No one is immune. The difference is when Piltdown man was discovered a fraud no one demanded the skeptic be character assassinated and black balled from his field.
I think the Piltdown fossil was assembled using an ape’s jaw and fragments of a human skull. And it was so weird, so unlike anything else known, that by the time the fraud was exposed some forty years later most palaeontologists were quietly ignoring it. What was really incredible, though, was the number of scientists at the time of the ‘discovery’ who were ready to believe in it, when a little critical thinking and a few simple tests would have told them that it was a fake. To be fair, access was carefully controlled, doubters were kept away from the data, and only those who believed in its authenticity got into print. It’s comforting to know that such things could never happen in these more enlightened times.
Sounds like monkey business to me.
Sorry, had to be said. — Eugene WR Gallun
We can’t blame an angrified Bigfoot for jumping up and down and causing the 24 earthquakes (4.8- 2.5 RS) in Oklahoma during the past 24 hrs, because Bigfoot doesn’t work in the oil patch. Yes, there are a couple o’ guys out there who could pass for Bigfoot, but they aren’t. Really.
Dang. Make that 29 quakes, now. How’s a guy supposed to take a nap in his fave chair when it keeps shakin’ him awake?
This zero chance scenario – several commenters expain why (no bananas along the Bering Strait)- has to have another purpose! Ah yes, climate change also means changing to cold conditions. They are hedging their bets worried that El Nino isn’t going to save their meme even it there is a slight warming in 2016. Using the International Business News for such a fanciful story is “floating a trial balloon”.
We will see more stuff about how humans are cooling the planet to dangerous levels. We will see ressurection of Ehrlich’s, Schneider’s and Holdren’s human-caused ice age stuff. Newsweek will republish its ice age cover from 1970s with the word ‘vindication’ emblazoned over it. I think the inventors of Whack-a-Moley must have got their idea from something like this. ‘Climate Change’ to adapt to whatever happens turns out to have been a timely invention.
97% of people who study Bigfoot for a living, believe that he’s real. In fact, they will go so far as to manufacture evidence to convince others.
A couple years ago, a guy actually got run over, while dressed up in a Bigfoot costume, pretending to be a Bigfoot that had been run over in the road.
The odd thing here is that when you fake evidence, you KNOW you’re faking evidence, and yet you still remain a true believer.
Funny thing, isn’t it?
As well as Gigantopithecus driven to become Big Feet in America, some stayed home and became Yetis in the Himalayas. Others swam to Australia where they became Yowies which have not been seen for two hundred years. The search continues.
Concerning apes: Koko the Gorilla has endorsed climate alarmism, according to Discovery Channel! Must read and see!
Ape lives in subtropical SE Asia. Climate becomes dryer and food source goes away. Ape isn’t adaptable enough so they decide to walk the 10,000 miles through deserts and tundra through China, Mongolia, Kamchatka, Alaska, then south into western North America just to reach a climate that was nothing like the subtropical climate they couldn’t live without. With this logic, I bet he believes in CAGW as well.
Further proof that if you attach “climate change” to anything — no matter how goofy — you will garner attention. Today Bigfoot, tomorrow space aliens sequestered in Area 51.
The assumption is Gigantopithecus never evolved, which of course is a fallacy.
Also, the “land bridge” was not frozen, it is called Beringia… and it was a grasslan steppe…
“The term Beringia was coined by the Swedish botanist Eric Hultén in 1937.[2] During the ice ages, Beringia, like most of Siberia and all of north and northeast China, was not glaciated because snowfall was very light.[3] It was a grassland steppe, including the land bridge, that stretched for hundreds of kilometres into the continents on either side. It is believed that a small human population of at most a few thousand survived the Last Glacial Maximum in Beringia, isolated from its ancestor populations in Asia for at least 5,000 years, before expanding to populate the Americas sometime after 16,500 years ago, during the Late Glacial Maximum as the American glaciers blocking the way southward melted,[4][5][6][7] but before the bridge was covered by the sea about 11,000 years BP[8]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia
I know I’ll probably catch flack for this, but I’ve been studying the Bigfoot issue since I was a boy.
According to the sightings, Sasquatch are omnivores. They forage for berries, fruits, tubers, and other edible plants. They hunt deer and small animals, raiding chicken coops on isolated farms or even carrying off the occasional dog. They’ve been sighted kneeling at roadsides, probably eating roadkill. If they are the descendants of Gigantopithecus, then they have diversified their diet considerably, but that is evolution in process.
But we shouldn’t bother the AGW folk with the Ice Age. They’re too busy staring in horror at a piddling miniscule warming in the last 130 years to be bothered looking at when there was a mile of ice sitting on top of New York, Toronto, Chicago, Stockholm, Berlin and London. Now THAT is climate change.
Sasquatch Are People DNA sequence studies by Dr. Melba Ketchum show that the Sasquatch are a hybrid of human and an unknown primate species:
http://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2013/09/sasquatch-are-people.html
Wood Ape Sightings: Correlations to Annual Rainfall Totals, Waterways, Human Population Densities and Black Bear Habitat Zones by Daryl Colyer & Alton Higgins
http://woodape.org/index.php/about-bigfoot/articles/67-ecological-patterns
Using Biotic Taphonomy Signature Analysis and Neoichnology Profiling to determine the identity of the carnivore taxa responsible for the deposition and mechanical mastication of three independent prey bone assemblages in the Mount St. Helen’s ecosystem of the Cascade mountain range by Aaron Mills, Gerald Mills, M. N. Townsend
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=25BBCABF2DE517FF!108&ithint=file%2cpdf&app=WordPdf&authkey=!AOLzbmAVbvcVkIM