That King Kong story might be older than we thought.
Gigantopithecus was an ape 10 feet tall, that weighed 1,300 pounds, & lived about 1.9 million years ago. Amazing new way of reconstructing DNA sequences from proteins confirms relationship to orangutans.https://twitter.com/ntaylor963/status/1194776923244650497 …
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IOW, won't show up in 23andme.
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@karweid Mike's suspicions of big foot.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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That is the most shocking hominin silhouette I have seen yeti.
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Sounds like my ex wife
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There is no amazing new way of reconstructing DNA sequences from proteins. There is only one way and it's not amazing at all. Protein sequence is already as good. The protein sequencing used was also not new - it's refined version of 35 years old technique.
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They only *think they lived 2 mil yrs ago :)
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What a wasted oportunity for the most epic name! Kingkongpithecus, rexkongpithecus if you are into the whole latin thing
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Donkeykongpithecus
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