The Great Fossil Challenge - Week 1

Introducing EpicurusIVXX and Joniversity's The Great Fossil Challenge weekly video.

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Presented by:
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This week's fossil:
U-shaped jawbone of a creature which was 3 meters (9.8 ft) tall and weighed as much as 540 kg (1,200 lb) and which dates to about 1.1 million - 100,000 years (species time span) ago.

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[lolman706]

giant humanoid ape

[frid9999]

That is one very big ape.

[Marchawc]

It's a cast of the mandible of a Gigantopithecus blacki discovered by a farmer at the Liucheng cave site in Southern China in 1956. The cast is displayed displayed in the Museum of Man in San Diego. Gigantopithecus is the largest of several extinct genera of the subfamily Ponginae(orangutans) and was first theoretically described from fossil teeth by Von Koenigswald, 1935.

[skitzoLSD]

lol you guys think you are soooo smart....you are all going down on the next one. im going to find the most random fossil i can! lol

[123backinyerface]

Oh crap it is a Gigantopithecus, image is right there on Wiki

[EpicurusIVXX]

what methods did you guys use to figure this out?

[Xoroaster]

Gigantopithecus!

Dang, I'm not first. ;-D

[FiendCandy]

It's a Mr Crocodile

[EpicurusIVXX]

im so impressed with this joniveristy and i cant wait to help make another one! very well done my man