Mouth of a mandrill – the modern world’s largest monkey. By Belgianchocolate. Source: CC BY 4.0

A Time When Giant Monkeys Haunted Our Early Ancestors

In Earth’s grand evolutionary tale, some creatures influenced the lives of our ancestors by sharing their environments, rather than contributing to their direct lineage. On top of that, these creatures may have posed immense hazards to our primeval ancestors. Among them is Dinopithecus, the “terrible baboon.” This extinct supersized primate once roamed the landscapes of

Both sides in the Vietnam War became convinced that they had found something unknown in the depths of the jungle (Poisondoll / Public Domain)

Something Hiding in the Jungle? The Rock Apes of Vietnam

Generally speaking, cryptids are easily disproven. Such fantasy creatures belong entirely in the imagination of the more creative sections of humanity, but such secret, unknown species do not exist. There is no giant forgotten ape hiding in the forests of north America, nor is there something similar in the Himalayas. There is no relic population