Gigantopithecus is an extinct genus of ape that existed as recently as 100,000 years ago. Fossils of the creatures have been uncovered in China, India, and Vietnam. The species lived in the same location as several other hominins, but were much larger in body size. Fossil records suggest that Gigantopithecus blacki reached the size of 3 meters (9.8 ft), and weighed up to 540 kilograms (1,200 lb). In 1935, the first official remains of Gigantopithecus were discovered by a distinguished paleontologist and geologist named Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald when he found a collection of bones and teeth at an apothecary shop in China....

Get off to a Good Start This means getting up early and eating breakfast. You will have much more energy throughout the day to follow the rest of these tips if you do! If you are so inclined, you can even include a little exercise in your morning routine. If you live with other people you can try to use this opportunity to get everyone together at the table to eat in the mornings....

10 Dudleytown, Connecticut: The Dark Forest Atop of a hill in the quiet, forested Connecticut town of Cornwall is an abandoned village isolated from the rest of the world. Dudleytown, which sits in the now-private “Dark Entry Forest,” was settled in 1747 by the Dudleys. Not only is it abandoned, but according to local legend, cursed, as well. Dudleytown started like any early settlement, where people built homes, farmed land, and lived happy lives, even forging iron....

Here are the top 10 T.V. and movie conspiracy theories that turned out to be true. 10 The Philadelphia Experiment In 1984, British director Stewart Rafill helmed a film that would later earn him the Best Science Fiction Film Award at the Rome Film Festival. But it was not entirely fiction. Entitled “The Philadelphia Experiment,” the Michael Pare film was based on events during World War II when U.S. Navy scientists, led by Dr....

Top 10 Awesome Films Hollywood Ruined With Lies 10 Revenge Revenge was a unique drama about a mysterious young woman moving to the Hamptons under a fake identity to avenge the murder of her father, who was killed in prison while serving a life sentence for a crime he did not commit. With an expertly crafted plan years in the making, the so-called Emily Thorne seeks out to slowly destroy the lives of anyone who played a part in her father’s demise....

Top 10 Tone-Deaf Celebrity Coronavirus Messages That Are Cringey AF The virus is also peculiar in that we simply don’t know how it works. It’s one of those things where the real—and responsible—experts tell you that they don’t know for sure, as there are still huge gaps between how we expect the virus to behave, and what we’re witnessing among the patients on the ground. 10 Why Are Young, Fit People Dying, Too?...

Top 10 Tips For Getting Paid To Write For Listverse A gig is a single job carried out by a specialist (you), and it can be anything from walking a dog to narrating an audiobook. Breaking into the Gig Economy can be difficult for people who aren’t already knowledgeable, so this list highlights the ten best ways anyone (that means you!) can make a living in the Gig Economy....

10 Every Terminator Writers built the Terminator franchise around time travel, and because of that, the movies have created many different timelines. Each timeline is as canonical and non-canonical as the next, and each is subject to complete revision when the next sequel is inevitably released. But if there’s one thing they all share, it’s a total overestimation of robotics, artificial intelligence, and the manufacturing industry. The Terminator predicted that an advanced artificial intelligence would have become self-aware in the far-flung future of August 29th, 1997....

The criteria I used for this list is they had to have played a sport professionally. For the “order” criteria (which was not easy) I took into consideration their body of work in both their sports career and their acting career. I also considered their acting ability and their overall success as an actor. I am not including any professional bodybuilders or professional wrestlers in this list because stage presence and theatrics are already exhibited in these two sports....

Written in 1956, this song was a rhythm and blues hit for Little Willie John that crossed over and became a pop standard after being transformed, with additional lyrics, by Peggy Lee and became her signature song. Although this song and the next on the list are borderline on the “lust” rule, Peggy clearly expresses her passion for her man in a way she knows how. Her love is burning up inside....

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So my question to you is just that is it ethical for humans to artificially create human life as in the means used to have a multiple outcome of 8 babies? Frankly, the exact number is irrelevant; it is the method of conception of life that is my real concern. The choice of wording in that last sentence should give a hint as to my own opinion. I do not endorse artificial means of conception nor would I ever advise a woman seeking my counsel to pursue such a course of action to have a baby....

The power of nature is unparalleled. When it is given the chance to thrive on the remains of human creation, it has the ability to take the neglected and forgotten and turn them into breathtaking sights. Here is a list of 10 extraordinary examples from all over the world of nature reclaiming abandoned places. 10 Ross IslandIndia During the 19th century, the British started a settlement on Ross Island, part of Andaman and Nicobar Islands....

Apple is best known for its only slightly non-redundant product releases. It is also known for kindergarten-friendly interfaces, so much so that the company maintains intellectual property rights on the basic shapes we learned during our time there. Their right to ownership is defined as “[T]he design of a portable and handheld digital electronic media device comprised of a rectangular casing displaying circular and rectangular shapes therein arranged in an aesthetically pleasing manner....

The most wonderful discoveries are often the weirdest—things that burst, bones that glow, and a language that resembles human speech in almost every way. 10 The Pompeii Horse The disaster of Pompeii is mostly remembered for its gray human bodies frozen in agony. Around 2,000 perished when the Mount Vesuvius volcano overcame the Roman city in AD 79. Researchers have found a few animals skeletons, including mules and donkeys, but only managed to make two successful casts, that of a dog and pig....

But in all this study, we sometimes fail to realize how much the ancient oceans affect our lives today. Everything from the air we breathe to our international trade partners is influenced by the oceans that existed thousands, millions, and even billions of years in the past. Here are just a few of the ways that these ancient waters still run very deep in our lives. 10 Ancient Oceans Help Us Heal Our Bones Broken bones and fractures are certainly a fact of life for millions of people....

Ancient songs allow us to time-travel through sound. They reveal deep mysteries about music, the world, and ourselves. 10Hurrian Hymn No. 6 In 1955, in the palace of ancient Ugairt, in Syria, archaeologists unearthed a clay tablet containing a musical fragment dating back 3,400 years—millennia older than the previously oldest known composition. The tablet contained a cuneiform inscription in Hurrian, an ancient Mesopotamian language. It also included a system for reproducing the melody....

By the end of the evening, it was clear that 52 people had lost their lives, and hundreds more were injured. As the country came to terms with what had happened, London itself came to a standstill. It was soon announced that the tragic events were the result of four suicide bombers. Soon after that, the questions began. 10 They Weren’t Just Known To Intelligence, They Were Double Agents! Not only were there claims of at least two of the London bombers being on intelligence services’ radar, several went a stage further and claimed they were actually double agents for British intelligence....

The Romans and ancient Germans clashed lot, engaging in battles in and around the Rhine. Julius Caesar distinguished them from the Celts, another tribe with a presence in the area at the time. The Romans and ancient Germans traded goods when they weren’t conducting battle, and the two ended up often intermingling quite a bit. Finds in what used to be Germania have helped us see both the cultures of ancient Germania and ancient Rome more clearly....

10San Fernando Massacres Although the majority of victims in the Mexican drug wars are rival cartel members, no one is truly safe. In the spring of 2011, the Los Zetas cartel got word that the rival Gulf Cartel had sent for reinforcements from other states. They intercepted several busloads of civilians on Mexican Federal Highway 101 in San Fernando. When the migrants refused to work for the cartel, they were all shot and killed (one man survived when the bullet missed his brain)....