In further Fake Fossil News, the heathen Chinamen, aided and abetted by a Godless Dane called Frodo, are trying to persuade us that they have the remains of an ape that was nearly 10 feet tall and around 1,300 pounds. They have called it
Gigantopithecus blacki, which I guess must be Chinese for enormous hairy black thing? Though how they knew it was black and hairy on the basis of a tooth is unclear.
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In an astonishing advance, scientists have obtained molecular evidence from a two-million-year-old fossil molar tooth found in a Chinese cave.The mystery ape is a distant relative of orangutans, sharing a common ancestor around 12 million years ago.
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"Astonishing" well yes, it would be. "Evidence"? "12 million years ago"?
They are also claiming it was around 10 feet tall and weighed 1,300 pounds. Do they take us for credulous fools?