bigfoot which has persisted into the present day. The only scientist who continued trying to prove such monsters exist was anthropologist Grover Krantz, who continued pushing for a connection between Gigantopithecus and bigfoot from 1970 to his death in 2002. Among the binomial names he came up with for bigfoot included "Gigantopithecus canadensis". Krantz did not meet support from either mainstream science or amateurs who said he readily accepted clearly false evidence. See also Meganthropus Bunopithecus Khoratpithecus Lufengpithecus Pongo hooijeri Sivapithecus References Prehistoric apes Prehistoric primate genera Pleistocene primates Pleistocene mammals of Asia Fossils of China Extinct animals of China Fossils of India Extinct animals of India Fossils of Vietnam Extinct animals of Vietnam Fossils of Indonesia Extinct animals of Indonesia Tortonian first appearances Pleistocene genus extinctions Fossil taxa described in 1935 Taxa named by Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Mammals described in 1935