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Speaking about DNA found this in an ad. The Bering land bridge is starting to get problematic to explain. Dusty is a NA man from the Blackfoot Tribe in Montana. He is 85% NA. "DUSTY’S DNA DISCOVERY So Dusty took a CRI Ancestry Test at the urging of his late brother Willy, who passed away before Dusty could receive his results. That’s a shame, because Dusty discovered something that would have shocked his late brother. With his CRI Genetics DNA test, Dusty was able to trace his ancestry back a whopping 17,000 years. More surprising than that, he found that his North American ancestry was OLDER than the land bridge that once connected Siberia to Alaska—and that he’d been told in school was the place his ancestors came from. Instead, Crawford’s results suggest that his ancestors came not by bridge, but by boat—as his closest genetic ancestors come from the Pacific Islands, not Siberia. The current theory is that Crawford’s ancestors—some of the first people to set foot in the Americas—came by boat to South America. They would have then worked their way North over many generations of travel. In fact, remains found in Peru contain DNA from the same haplogroup as Dusty Crawford—meaning that he can trace his lineage DIRECTLY back down to Peru—and back across the Pacific Ocean."

As part of my volunteer work for the Montana Military Museum over the last decade, I spend a lot of time looking at and restoring historical photographs, some dating back to the 1880's. In April I began experimenting with a colorization program called DeOldify licensed by MyHeritage. It can bring the subject of an old photo to life, in a manner of speaking. I've used it on a number of the museum's photos of Montana infantry units taken from the 1890's through the 1930's. We know the actual colors of uniforms, pennants and flags, etc., shown in the photos and the program does a remarkable job of rendering them accurately. I was primarily interested in the photo of Khwit as it is the best preserved as well as generationally closest to Zana. My goal was to adjust exposure to try and give more depth to the face, allowing a possibly more accurate assessment of the underlying bone structure (I also found it interesting that the hair was rendered in the auburn shade fitting the "long, reddish-brown hair" described in "The Nature of the Beast" quoted above). Based on the neutral background I suspect the photo was exposed with artificial light, i.e. flash powder in that era, which would explain the high contrast exhibited. Khwit's nose appears wide considering the otherwise long, narrow face, and while the original photo suggests a high forehead, reflection of light to the camera lens is similar from the bridge of the nose and the forehead above the brow which indicates a similar sloping plane to both surfaces. As hiflier pointed out, the ears definitely seem low and it's easy to see that if that thick hair was allowed to grow out it could cover them entirely which fits with the many sasquatch witness descriptions that ears were not seen. If I saw that photo with no knowledge of the provenance it would appear to be or a fairly well proportioned, rangy human male. If his body was proportioned with the skull pictured above however, he must have been extraordinarilly tall and powerfully built. The heading over the photos doesn't provide the identity of the "leading genetecist" who suggests Zana may have been a yeti, but all of the purported yeti tracks I'm aware of show an ape like foot rather than human like. While I understand the genetic basis for the current primate designations (and ignoring the persistent suspicion that some scientists delight in obfuscation), the lexicon of Ivan Sanderson's day dividing the branches as Hominid or Pongid strikes me as much more descriptive from the standpoint of physical characteristics.

Nice work, Airdale, and good observations. Thanks.

I wish I would've posted what he did just to get this simple reaction. Too funny...or not...

^^^^^ Was that the event where a cow on a thermal image was identified as a bigfoot? A moooooving experience.

I have failed.

A recent Shane Corson interview which clarifies some stuff about the old nests and tells about new nest finds, and a "something happened" when found.

I'm still going with the Montane Lemur hybrid......lol Theres little reason to presume we have anything near a complete catalog of our ancestry or those linked to it. The fossil record has just too many holes, and represents just a fraction of the species that have gone before(along with) us to rationally state "these are all that ever were" New species are being found in the fossil beds and will continue to be. I'm inclined to go with a proto-human that arrived on this continent long before humans ever did, perhaps evolving the grander size along with the megafauna that existed here until but a few thousand years ago. Who is to say that with that certain primate mental edge they managed to survive the shifts and incursions that wiped out most of the rest or not? While evolution often does proceed at a very gradual rates there are times where it progresses surprisingly fast, as well as bottle neck situations. And in most species, it's an ongoing process regardless of the rate.

Sigh.... It was an Elk wallow!! They baited it with fruit. They know that Elk were using it intermittently. The reason they picked that spot was that it would easily hold tracks. Instead of tracks? They got a body imprint. With no elk tracks leading out of it. So it wasn’t an Elk.... So what was it? Being a hunter I would never rule out a Bear because they follow their nose. 10x better smell than a blood hound. But scientists got together and proclaimed it was a large primate based on the morphology of the body cast.....Dunno. But your simply playing the odds game versus truly looking at the evidence. Very frustrating. Did you see the worlds largest Sitka spruce? It’s funny because Randles used to be a member here. Did the JREFers run him off?

The 2010's? Impotent mainstream science and sequestering knowledge while monetizing the subject. In other words, serious growth in the business of Bigfoot and offering carrots of no value to a jaded public and community.

Why would you think that you crossed over a barrier a barrier that they did not want you to. What was it that you think that. Was it a prime hunting spot for them. A birthing place that you must have thought of where they slept. That is a big statement to say some thing about these creatures. It is like saying they have borders that they watch over and protect. Now this is just my opinion. But do not Chimpanzees think like this among them selves with in their groups. Like I said this is a major statement to say about what you had encountered. Here is something to think about. I cannot disagree with your statement nor can agree with it. Since your statement is true to a point. But I would like to hear your thoughts on your statement. Since it is such a strong statement to make about these creatures.