Why Did The Real-Life King Kong Go Extinct?

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The world's largest ape, whose appearance is largely unknown, may have been the inspiration for bigfoot, pictured. BestGreenScreen/Shutterstock

Being a fussy eater may be enough to make you a fairly annoying dinner guest, but for wild animals it could be a death sentence. The enormous Gigantopithecus blacki roamed around our world until up to perhaps 100,000 years ago, when its incredibly strict diet led to its extinction, according to a new study published in the journal Quaternary International.