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Giant creatures are usually associated with dinosaurs, woolly mammoths or mystical beasts. But if you go back though the human lineage youll find a very distant relative that stood three metres tall and weighed around 250 kilograms.

The 300-kilogram primate couldn’t adapt when a changing environment forced a dietary shift. The 300-kilogram primate couldn’t adapt when a changing environment forced a dietary shift.

What happened to the three-metre tall apes that once lived alongside orangutans? A new study suggests they were too slow to adapt to a changing world.