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^^^^ Classic That particular exhibit is definitely one of the better ones out there. If it was real I would have to say that its tree peeping skills are at the very least a little weak.

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I had a 24 lb. Maine Coon Cat.....he bathed himself. I had no intention of letting him get a hold of me with paws that looked like catchers mitts with claws.

Your definition of superficial is skewed badly. Again Im not talking about one birth defect in the human population. Its not as simple as being very very tall. Or very very hairy. Its a whole host of non human traits that are consistent within their own population! Your wife’s feet are flexible....great. Are they 20 inches long? Is she 7 feet tall? Does she have hair covering her entire body? Does she know how to light a fire? You focus on the single similarity and ignore the hundreds of dissimilarities!!! Bear in mind you share about 50% of your DNA with a peach..... NO. Your saying Sasquatch IS a Homo Sapien. Because thats what the tests say. Which is WHY we are calling them contaminated!!!! Its possible that Sasquatch could share the same genus as us. Doubtful but not impossible. Homo Erectus were bigger than we were on average. I personally think because of Homo Erectus stone flaking and tool use and fire use abilities? A Sasquatch is more distant than our relationship with Homo Erectus. Your very hard to hold a intelligent conversation with because it would seem you just throw all primates into a bag and shake it. Characteristics within a species MEANS SOMETHING! DNA reinforces this concept......it doesnt destroy it. For example. Autism and diabetes come from breeding with Neanderthals. https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/spotted/smart-genes-neanderthal-mini-brains-diabetes-link/

Norse, you are letting superficial differences cloud your ability to see the far greater similarities, is what I mean. So BF is big, hairy and has bendy feet? Again, a big "so what"? Every characteristic you describe has occurred as a variant in the human population at one time or another. Hell my wife has feet so flexible she could probably haul a line with them. (Her mother is the same, which came in quite handy when she was a trapeze artist in her youth). I'm not sure that I'm saying BF is a dyed-in-the-wool H. sapien, or not. All I'm saying is there may be genetic similarities on a level we aren't willing to entertain seriously so far. I'd leave it to the taxonomists as to what that would mean to the tree of life. How many "contaminations" will it take before we realize it might not be a case of contamination at all? I'm just asking? How many already? Again, if the data isn't telling you what you want to hear, it is not the fault of the data.

Yes, Big Stinky, hairs were taken from the nests using tape. They were sent to Cindy Dosen in British Columbia and she compared them to what is believed to be other samples of Sasquatch hair and she said they were a perfect match to the samples that she had. http://www.olympicproject.com/staff-member/cindy-dosen/

Its not a bridge too far. Its a false narrative. Patty and her kind will not be the exact same DNA as a Homo Sapien Sapien. We see that fact in the morphology alone. Patty is not walking down Main Street USA unnoticed..... and for good reason. My DNA test puts me at like at 80 percent NW Europe and 20 percent Central Western Europe. (British Isles and Switzerland). If you tested a native American on the reservation across the river? His DNA is going to look vastly more different and local than mine. DNA has been refined to a razors edge. We have also mapped the genomes of both Neanderthals and Denisovans. They are now easily distinguishable between us and them and also hybrids in the current Human population have been identified. If samples are simply coming back Homo Sapien? Its contaminated plain and simple. REAL Bigfoot DNA will FLOOR science.....TRUST ME. Its NOT going to look like a contaminated sample. It will be distinctive and new and earth shattering.

Actually Gigantor, although this is one conclusion you could draw from the predicted result I described, I was hinting at another. (This, btw, assuming the "human" DNA doesn't match the control samples of any of the investigators) When your data repeatedly points you to a conclusion you don't want to accept, the natural tendency is to question the data, but instead, you probably should question the hypothesis. The hypothesis that the nDNA of a BF would be genetically distinct...or too similar to be readily distinguished...from H. sapien is probably something we should be questioning very seriously at this point. This is absolutely a bridge too far for a lot of people, and I get why. All well and good, but the history of science is filled with examples of us trying to pound square pegs instead of realizing the hole we need is square too. This, to my mind, is one of those times.

NatFoot, there have been several threads about these nests right here on the forums with links to information about them. I think BobbyO has started one, I think I have started one. This thread has links to more information. The Olympic Project doesn't post information on their site or FB because they are trying to do it right. But there are information links right here about them. Most of it you are going to have to listen to podcasts.

Here's a juvieprint that I posted recently, but didn't tell the story......I found several great prints in and around a creek pool, and after I took the one nice print pic, the owner of the pool came out and was quite aggressive, dang near bit my foot! Anyway, you can see more prints in the mud around the Snapping Turtle, was going to go back and take more pics the next day as there were some great prints in there, but it started raining and didn't stop for weeks, flooding, no sign of it now or Mr. Snapping Turtle. Yeah, he was pretty big & mean!

Still hiking, but only tolerable before 10:00AM or after 7:00PM......found an older print, very small, but good detail. It was made in early May, and is hard as concrete now.....I might try to cast this one, is my little friend growing? Some other photos from one of my Camera Traps (store bought - Bushnell). I am trying to determine the stress on wildlife during this draught, as it's extremely hard to find track now. I hung a sack of stinky old meat from a tree near the camera, and got quite a response. The animals look healthy enough, and it was the Turkey Buzzard who eventually got the prize. This one particular Coyote showed up 22 pictures worth, and a few of those......notice how in one photo he/she is peeing on the sack the meat was in.