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Well, it lasted a lot longer than I thought it would. If you are fair, you must admit that measuring popularity (thus length of production), it was the most successful BF show ever. My understanding is that most viewers were young people who've never heard about BF before. They planted the seed in many thousands of young people. Good Job! I congratulate all of the people responsible for making Finding Bigfoot happen!

Craig Woolheater posted a piece on the same subject on Cryptomundo earlier today. Craig asked Cliff, Bobo, and Matt about the rumor. Cliff said: "No, we aren't cancelled. In fact, we are filming more episodes this summer. The programming folks at Animal Planet have made some decisions about how to best support Finding Bigfoot based on the data, and they are moving ahead with their plan. Luckily this has little to do with me, so I can just focus on bigfooting." Bobo: "No, viewers were pissed about the night change and advertisers buy slots ahead of time so they have to go through current cycle. Or something like that. We're filming all summer." Matt M.: "Animal Planet is holding the remaining episodes for next season to add to the new ones that they are currently filming in order to air them back on the original air time of Sunday nights." So no, Finding Bigfoot is apparently not cancelled.

Females are XX and they get one copy of X from each parent. Males with XY get their X from their mother but not from their father where they get the Y only. http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/chromosomes/typesx/ It's probably still a flip of the coin, with hybrids, which gender a fetus is supposed to be at conception, but like the OP article suggests, both genders may not reach full term in the womb with equal success. It's speculative on my part to present hypothetical scenarios that Neanderthals could have persisted longer than the fossil record supports, but there was at least some success or we wouldn't have Neanderthal DNA in us. So what success did Neanderthals experience post hybridization is the open question. The possibility that they carried our DNA in them still remains. That's my primary point to make where Sasquatch as a hybrid is concerned.

^^^ Wrong, what was on the hill...was a paycheck.

None of the offspring would be 50/ 50 after the second generation. If neanderthal had persisted, which is something Sykes was willing to test for, what effects do think we would have made on their make up? Perhaps they would return to what they were also, but with human mitochondria in the mix. If the population dynamics were the same for them then we might expect the human mitochondria to be absent, but if they were in a bottleneck, then the opposite could have happened.

Cliff does say twice on Facebook: not canceled. Yet, they had a show upstaged by River Monsters this past Thursday night. Obviously they are pacing themselves and inserting shows for best ratings. If they could cut the commercial breaks to the gobsmacking, salivating CGBigfoot they could easily make the show better IMHO. Cosmetically better for sure, but better.

You wouldn't know if all of the hybrid females lived with homo sapiens, some could have been abducted and displacement wouldn't be over night. We think we absorbed them, but that could have been a two way street for a while. Or if Sasquatch is a hybrid from us, it could still be going at least one direction. You resort to rhetoric when you are confronted with these possibilities. It shows insincerity.

I haven't been able to watch an entire episode for quite a while. It's pretty much the same thing - and it gets boring after a while - never keeps my interest, and to be honest I think the shows producers went in the wrong direction too much. The first couple of seasons were the best by far IMO. We got to see a lot of the pics, videos or eye-witness accounts from some really good encounters. Seemed like things kind of petered out after the first couple of seasons. I also agree that they should have done less jumping around the world type of thing an concentrated more on a hot-spot area. It seemed like they really weren't actually wanting to find BF at times. I bet there is a lot more that went on that never got to camera.

Right, but this doesn't account for all possibilities concerning the hybrid hypothesis. Either one that supposes a Neanderthal & modern human hybrid population other than us, or a human & some other hominin hybrid population exists. The hybrid females would be half Neanderthal, and we don't know if they would reject a male fetus from a second cross with male Neanderthal. Some of the hybrids could have persisted and reproduced among Neanderthal populations. Those hybrids would have modern human mitochondria.

Thanks. I appreciate that. And yes, I find personal peace in that notion. I haven't been to Mt St Helens but I think it would indeed be such a place. Going forth with a spirit of respect can't be a wrong thing. Of course, going forth with large caliber firearms in case you meet something/someone not sharing your spirit of respect is not a bad plan either. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, then let the chips fall where they fall. MIB

Here in the south where I live I've seen a lot of rock piles in all kinds of shapes. Some are really far out in the woods with nothing around that's visible. But at one time a 100 or more years ago there would have been a farm there that has grown back up into the forest and the majority of these piles was where they piled the rocks from clearing the fields and homestead. I know this because I've spent years metal detecting civil war and revolutionary war camp sites in way out places and I've found rusted metal and other old items that tells me it was a homestead at one time. Now some are just plain weird with no metal and no signs of ever having habitation. I do not mess with these things as they are old and grown over. I'm not superstitious at all but I have absolutely no desire to dig up a body be it Bigfoot or something else. I just keep thinking about that movie pumpkinhead and that thing being buried in that rock pile lol.