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Eons•Season 1•Episode 23

What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?

Dec 11, 201710 min

Probably twice the size of a modern gorilla, Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates, there are some lessons to be learned in how it lived, and why it disappeared.

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Seasons6

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Season 1 Episodes24

The Trouble With Trilobites

When Did the First Flower Bloom?

The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures

Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers

What Colors Were Dinosaurs?

The Story of Saberteeth

That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything

The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew

Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor

The Extinction That Never Happened

The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws

The Age of Giant Insects

History's Most Powerful Plants

How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?

When The Earth Was Purple

'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing

When Whales Walked

An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs

A Brief History of Geologic Time

The Search for the Earliest Life

The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers

The Last Time the Globe Warmed

What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?

When Giant Fungi Ruled

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Kallie Moore

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Blake de Pastino

Self

Hank Green

Hank Green

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Episode Summary

"What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?" is episode 23 of Eons season 1. It aired on December 11, 2017.

Next: E24 · When Giant Fungi Ruled Best of Season 1