The largest ape that ever walked the Earth, Gigantopithecus blacki, lived in what is now China and went extinct between 295,000–215,000 years ago.
📏 Height: ~3 meters (9.8 ft)
⚖️ Weight: 200–300 kg (441–661 lbs)
📸 Image: Paleo-anthro sculptor Bill Munns with his Giganto reconstruction in his Los Angeles backyard.
Caption writer seems to be confused about what a real photograph is and what conceptual means.
Fake and real photograph used to have a very different meaning indeed.
This is a “real” photo of Denise Richards and Paul Walker:
This is a “fake” photo of Denise Richards and Paul Walker (in the body of a cybernetic T-Rex):
I just commented this somewhere else:
I think this photograph was taken in an era when the only technology available to make an image that looked like this was photography. At that time “not a real photograph” was the equivalent to the statement “a photograph of something which is not what it appears to be”.