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hiflier - You make a good point. It's probably also worth noting that, at least according to the reading I've been doing, glacial maximums and minimums did not always occur simultaneously in Europe and North America, nor necessarily both poles at once. It is likely that regardless of how much ice is in one location or another, land bridges might only occur those times when the peaks coincide. MIB

Species transition times based on fossil record reflect only that transition in that locale, and if you're studying a widespread species, these transitions and transitional forms will be occurring at different times over the creatures range, and at different rates as well depending on the pressures of a specific habitat.

Hey BTW.......during the hotter months, I walk in the creeks just to cool down. The cool water acts like a radiator on the blood circulating through your feet & lower leg......feels wonderful, and would certainly expect the big fellow to do the same. Here are a couple of interesting impressions. I hope to have some amazing news & photos by years end.......stay tuned:)

Tal, spent many a day myself helping my mom and grandma can pear preserves. It's a lot of work but worth it when you eat 'em. Can't imagine breakfast without 'em. We were country folks and that's how we helped feed ourself. Not just pears either, we would spend all summer picking dewberries, blackberries, wild grapes, muscadines, they all make great jams and jellies. And wild plums, my favorite, make the best jelly. I guess we were kinda like a BF, the land provides the food if you know where to look. Fishing, hunting, gardens and picking wild fruit helped keep the grocery bills down. I feel sorry for folks who never had that experience. They've missed out on something in life.

The skeptics are going to have fun with this post but this thread a has been nibbling about the edges of one possibility about BF. First I will pose some questions. 1. Why has the Smithsonian lost the giant skeletons newspapers have reported them boxing up and shipped off? 2. What has the military done with the numerous reports of BF sightings on military installations? They would not be ignored. If covered up, why? If it was treated like some unknown tree frog science would be brought in to investigate. And we would hear the results. This has not happened. One can only presume the results of any investigation are classified. Why? 3. A certain percentage of BF reports are remarkable to the point of being unbelievable. While some may be explainable some are not. Fading in and out of view. Footprints just stopping and going nowhere. Mind speak. Paralyzed witnesses. UFO and Orb sightings along with BF activity. This stuff is paranormal to say the least but not uncommon. 4. Several reports exist where humans shot at BF with little or no effect. Usually no blood is found. Why no blood? Deer hunters use blood trails to find kills. Are BF that are shot hauled off to BF trauma centers and their blood trails removed? If so why? We have reports of BF being shot in the 1800's and bodies being examined. Now bodies, according to reports, are collected by government agencies. The same government that denies BF existence. Why? What has changed? Did Smeja really shoot a BF and someone else put a black bear in its place? He seemed honestly shocked when Sykes told him his sample was black bear. Was his big mistake being so public? Why did California not go after him for poaching bear? As uncomfortable for me as it is, this points to government coverup and classification. Some big relic hominid would not warrant that. The only thing that makes sense points to some extra terrestrial connection. While a dead ape man in the 1800's could just be explained as as just that without scientific examination, an examination might reveal something quite different. And now a blood trail or body and DNA might show something not of this world. Cyborg, alien DNA, robot, or some off world biological entity would be difficult for our government to explain. Is that what is going on? I really wonder.

^^^As a Nation (U.S. that is) we might be waking up to the factual vacuum created by the whole idea of false equivalency. This is the pernicious idea that any fact stated is balanced out by the mere statement to the contrary. There is no end to the mischief this creates and it sustains an atmosphere of "anything goes, and nothing matters." If I were to say, "The sun rises in the East, and sets in the West" and your reply is NUH-UHHH!!!, and both "views" are proposed as having equal legitimacy, we are four-square in the upside-down world of the false equivalency. So....to bring it around to the topic at hand...if I say to you , "Look, there are gigantic footprints that were obviously made by something big, with a lot of mass, and with a preternaturally long stride", and your reply on looking at them is: "No they weren't, because the animal you reference is mythical"? One of us has factual issues. It would not be me.