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Post by Melanie on Mar 3, 2005 1:48:27 GMT
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Post by Bowhead Whale on Jun 2, 2006 19:03:00 GMT
Gigantopithecus would be Yeti and Sasquatch... Yes, this is possible. Many. many legends actually happen to have been born from true roots. See, as an example, the unicorn, which actually was a herd of tibetan goats with their horns artificially welded together (see Timbs on Unicorns topic). Or the scandinavian Kraken, which is the Colossal Squid. Historians even suggested that the Lung (chinese dragon) took form from Mamenchisaurus bones found by Ancient Asians. So, Yeti being Gigantipithecus... yes, this is possible.
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Post by sordes on Jun 2, 2006 19:10:50 GMT
@bowhead Whale: The true origin of the unicorn is still unclear, and there are several good and plausible explanations.
The colossal squid Mesonychoteuthis is surely not responsible for the Kraken, because it is an antarctic species.
The chinese dragons have their origins perhaps in living reptiles like crocodiles, alligators or monitors, or probably in skeletons of extinct reptiles, but in this case sauropods are lesser probable.
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Post by Bowhead Whale on Jun 2, 2006 19:14:30 GMT
Sordes, the origin of unicorns IS clear. Just look further. In Timbs on Unicorns topic (Cryptozoology), I talk about it and I even brought pictures: an ancient bouddhist unicorn picture, as well as a goat with its horns welded, following the ancient tibetan tradition. Please, look there.
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Post by Bowhead Whale on Jun 2, 2006 19:51:03 GMT
Anyway, here is my source about unicorns:
(french book): Le Livre de la Licorne; mythes et réalités
Author: Yvonne Caroutch
Editor: Puiseaux: Pardès, 1989.
243 pages.
It's a book written in a very bad style; however, the history of the subject is very well sourced,and has many, many ancient pictures and ancient textes to prove her theory. I brought two of them in the Cryptozoology thread.
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Post by Melanie on Dec 23, 2014 21:20:05 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Jul 5, 2015 9:15:41 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Jul 5, 2015 9:19:12 GMT
Kupczik, Kornelius and Dean, M. Christopher. (2008). Comparative observations on the tooth root morphology of Gigantopithecus blacki. Journal of Human Evolution 54(2): 196-204. [ Abstract] |
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Post by surroundx on Jul 5, 2015 9:23:28 GMT
Dean, M. Christopher and Schrenk, Friedemann. (2003). Enamel thickness and development in a third permanent molar of Gigantopithecus blacki. Journal of Human Evolution 45(5): 381-388. [ Abstract] |
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Post by surroundx on Jul 5, 2015 9:26:05 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Jul 5, 2015 9:32:20 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Dec 28, 2015 7:40:07 GMT
Bocherens, Hervé et al. (In Press, 2015). Flexibility of diet and habitat in Pleistocene South Asian mammals: Implications for the fate of the giant fossil ape Gigantopithecus. Quaternary International. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.059 [ Abstract] |
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Post by surroundx on Dec 28, 2015 7:43:43 GMT
Wang, Yuan et al. (In Press, 2015). The Early Pleistocene Gigantopithecus-Sinomastodon fauna from Juyuan karst cave in Boyue Mountain, Guangxi, South China. Quaternary International. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.071 [ Abstract] |
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Post by surroundx on Jan 17, 2016 4:47:44 GMT
Shao, Qingfeng et al. (In Press, 2016). U-series and ESR/U-series dating of the Stegodon–Ailuropoda fauna at Black Cave, Guangxi, southern China with implications for the timing of the extinction of Gigantopithecus blacki. Quaternary International. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.12.016 [ Abstract] |
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Post by surroundx on Jan 26, 2017 7:58:11 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Nov 14, 2019 13:06:58 GMT
Welker, Frido et al. (2019). Enamel proteome shows that Gigantopithecus was an early diverging pongine. Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1728-8 [ Abstract] |
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Post by surroundx on Apr 25, 2022 12:12:15 GMT
Lopatin, A. V., Maschenko, E. N. and Dac, Le Xuan. (2022). Gigantopithecus blacki (Primates, Ponginae) from the Lang Trang Cave (Northern Vietnam): The Latest Gigantopithecus in the Late Pleistocene? Doklady Biological Sciences 502: 6-10. doi.org/10.1134/S0012496622010069 |
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Post by Melanie on Aug 26, 2023 17:56:26 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Jan 10, 2024 22:36:53 GMT
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