If Bigfoot is real, what could it be? Starting in the 1930s, paleontologists began to find fragments of the remains of a hominid that resembles the descriptions of Bigfoot. This creature was given the name Gigantopithecus, and it is believed to have become extinct about 300,000 years ago. To date, remains of this animal have only been found in China and Southeast Asia, and most are teeth or fragments of jaw. Attempts to estimate the size of this animal from these fragments have led to suggestions of a hominid between eight and twelve feet tall and weighing anything from 600 to over a thousand
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