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I have consolidated the three Capturing Bigfoot threads under Skinwalker13 original posting. It has been moved to the PGF section.    Thank you for your patience!    

What does this nature discovery mean?   Here are my completely uninformed thoughts:     First, I applaud the logic.    I will admit when we see something unusual, I am more prone to think it is in fact not unusual. It is just not as well understood.  Well, maybe just not well understood by me.  Once we understand it the real reason turns out to be pretty boring.   I would like to offer 2 examples:   1- Plaster cast "fingerprints". I heard on TV shows how these plaster footprints of Bigfoot had dermal ridges.  There was even claimed evidence of healed skin in the footprint's dermal ridge lines which "couldn't be faked".  Jimmy Chilcutte became a household name in the Bigfoot world as the FBI fingerprint expert who pointed these things out.   He concluded this could only be explained by an undiscovered primate making the prints.  This may be the case, but his analysis was flawed it seems.  The effect he noticed was able to be explained and reproduced by others giving the same ridges as an experimental result.  This meant there could be other explanations for the same lines he based his conclusions on.   2- The Skookum casts were thought to be a bigfoot siting in the mud.        It seems its more likely this was just a deer/elk type animal.  Of the two which is more likely.         We attribute things to unusual findings which can be significant.   Sometimes it is and sometimes it's not.     In the end we need to go wherever the facts take us.   Are the findings explained by some other natural process or typical process?        

For those who doubt the usefulness of DNA in identifying  Bigfoot as a new species or a Homo sapiens hybrid, please read this paper on the Likweli monkey, which has extensive DNA results to demonstrate its place in monkey phylogeny as a distinct species.  A similar paper on the Lesula monkey, another recent discovery, can be found in PLOS ONE.

^^^   This is a point Anna Nikaris has made about Bigfoot.  She discovered some similar primate in Asia herself a few years ago.   Never know what is out there.  

Since Norse mentioned it:   https://xcancel.com/FoxNews/status/2084638246978371709   Never been anywhere near a wildfire of that nature, and I never want to be either.