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King Kong Lived?
Agent Provocateur writes "McMaster University recently announced the discovery of the remains of a gigantic ape, measuring over 3 meters tall and weighing up to 600kg, that supposedly co-existed alongside humans." From the article: "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."
"Oh no. It wasn't the asteroids. T'was beauty that killed the beast!"
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-- thinkyhead software and media
I for one welcome our, wait they died out! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
All sorts of strange creatures existed during the plasticine era. I thought everyone knew that.
So the articles "We found a tooth" with nothing much more to back it up..? WTF, I know King kong is out soon but what the hell Monkey?
I like muppets.
Body-mass index of 66.7. Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater. No wonder they got extinct.
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... can now speak about the 600 Kg gorilla. Good.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
a gigantic ape, measuring over 3 meters tall and weighing up to 600kg, that supposedly co-existed alongside humans."
We still have these today. You can track one down by listening for its unmistakable cry; "Developers! Developers! Developers!"
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anything you want! its dead and can't hear you!
Is there anyone from Kansas with some *plausible* theories about this monkey?
I see apes like that all the time here on campus. But we don't have a fancy name for them - here they're called, "offensive linemen."
The hell is this doing on Slashdot? It's in my freaking anthro textbook, fer chrissakes. My textbook.
Back in my day, here in Texas, we called them Nose Guards...
Oh, that's right I was a Nose Guard.
Spock the, if I just had more speed I could have gone pro, Baptist....
"Oh drat these computers, they're so naughty and so complex, I could pinch them." --Marvin the Martian
... next you're gonna tell me godzilla lived. Like there ever were a bunch of giant lizard roaming the earth. That's just silly.
Doubtful, besides the fact that this is hardly "giant" (come on, 10-feet tall?), marketers would have to be pretty stupid to assume that this would influence sales any. ... and we ALL know that marketers never do anything dumb.
Like smallgits, but bigger. no?
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Biologists now know that this was where pro wrestlers came from. See Nature magazine, Dec 2005, p435 "Prehistoric Smackdown Confirmed by Carbon-Dating".
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.
All your blondes are belong to Kong!
What have 20% of the moderators been smoking?
The aforementioned giant penis?
"The problem with our economy is that our budget is balanced by people who aren't" - A.E.N.
"marketers would have to be pretty stupid to assume that this would influence sales any. "
i dont know, remember sales of mars bars went through the roof when we sent that first rover to mars.... i think that it would DEFINATLY influence sales....
so scientist are capable of buying a molar at a pharmacy, combine it with a few jawbones and then complete the whole puzzle? It ate bamboo, it had hair and they draw you a picture of what it looked like. CSI Miami is nothing compared to this.
I can't decide if this is a serious post, or a pr0n joke.
What era of Genesis. Cause I much prefer their earlier Progressive era with Peter Gabriel on vocals. The Phil Collins stuff is ok, but they got a bit too poppy towards the end.
"We shall party like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean." - HedonismBot
So what are you saying?
That he should be called Duke Kong?
I draw the line at the Mullett.
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
Blackii?!?
I find that racist.
The correct term would be Africanii-Americanii!
Savages.
Wikipedia is just like a peer-reviewed journal where, by 'peer', I mean anybody who has access to the internet.
word.
I think it should be Baron Von Kong
PJ's paleo-synchronous track record is starting to worry me -- at this rate someone's gonna dig up that evil skeleton dude from The Frighteners. (checks IMDB) Aw FSCK! His next film's The Lovely Bones! (runs away)