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Just saying, I know emotions can ride high sometimes on the internet and in bigfootery, but this thread and others like it is the only place to discuss the science. The is nothing going on on FB. Just closed minds, irrelevant comments, and complete lack of comprehension of what is going on. Even jogging people for an opinion on social media or any platform seems useless. Maybe this is an indication people aren't capable of understanding or interested in anything other than a type of proof they can reach out and touch or sniff.

Interesting question. I'd say we need a skeleton to study to be sure. Measurements, calculation of intermembral index, examination of the skull, pelvis, and ankles .. should tell us pretty decisively. (While we're doing that, lets do some DNA! :)) Size seems to vary somewhat regionally. Given the 2 I've seen, I would say 7 to 7.5 feet would be late juvenile / early adolescent, definitely not an adult. Youth might throw our assumptions about IM index, etc off since they are presumably mostly based on adult sizes. MIB

I am trying to track down the exact opposite right now... There are stories of SMALL bodies that were located in a mound in this region. They were allegedly the size of a small child, but all had evidence of wisdom teeth and other signs of being small, full grown adults. These bodies were also reported to be wearing elaborate copper jewelry and breastplates. The small size could match up with the legends of the Moon Eyed People or the Yehasuri/Yunwi Tsundi...all Native American accounts of little people in the caves and mountains.

Cool Cobra!

There's your reality show moment: narrator: "what are you up to skinwalker?" skinwalker: "working my way through a few hundred pages of west virginia ethnology reports from the 1800s"

Anyhow back on topic. DNA can be weird.

It’s good to keep an open mind. No matter how many times we have been mule kicked in the teeth. I think EDNA still has aways to go before it’s discovering new species closely related to humans. But I think the gap is shrinking. Lets think about this. There are 3.2 BILLION base pairs in human DNA. A Chimp shares 98.9% of that same 3.2 billion base pairs with us. A Sasquatch being bipedal? I’m guessing is somewhere in between. Looking for the .5% of differences out of 3.2 billion? Is like looking for a needle in a haystack! Now say we don’t have a type specimen. So we take water samples or soil samples. The DNA in those samples are probably degraded. But even degraded samples are going to still steer you towards is it a trout or a moose or a skunk. Easy. The genomes are already mapped. But a new novel species very close to human? Its going to need to be a more direct dna sample that hopefully will hold up to numerous tests. For now. Maybe in the future? They can tease the nuances out of each sample. Or find other disqualifiers for known species vs cryptids.

Actually Dr. Mayor answered those very questions in her latest video. I think she is being sincere. Perhaps I was too rush to judgement since the press release does reveal quite a bit on second read. However, I do expect to be disappointed since I'm not jiving with the show. I think the most amazing part of this not a blip of a reaction on social media. I have not seen anything at all, not even on the show's own postings with promo clip. Not a reaction from anyone at all so far in bigfootery that I have seen except here.

Some claim to. Most of them don't believe in them. Scoftics /skeptics .

The story goes on and on about the edge that dogs gave us by hunting more efficiently, but it doesn't acknowledge that dogs helped to PROTECT us, too. They are superb warning systems. Therefore, if you are getting preyed upon, and your dogs alert you, you have time to defend yourselves. Also, they can hunt animals but also other bipedal hominids, leading you to their secret hiding places. Dogs definitely give you an edge.

I completely believe your experiences, this thread and others. I would be interested in seeing her interaction with woo events so I'll dig for some clips. The ones I have seen seem to be older hot zones or wrong timing hot zones. That is expected though with any BF research. They probably went to WA state because it has seen every type of BF event possible. They know they need more to get another season funded.. The real deal is when someone with no belief or experience with paranormal is faced with it. This isn't directed at anyone in particular. Just a brief meme inspiration.

There are reports of very large hairy men, sometimes up to 20 ft. tall, in Alaska and Canada. These reports are rare but these reports do exist. They seem to differ from bigfoot in that they are tall but lean and sometimes are reported with four toes. Here is a short video: So the question is---are you on-board with this? Do you think they are real or are they legendary?

Not in their southern range but across the sub-arctic, Alaska, Canada, Finland, Russia. No primate hibernates as far as we know. But if not, how does bigfoot cope with extreme cold? There are many reports of bigfoot from the "Headless Valley" in Canada which is northwest of Edmonton. The Russian version of bigfoot is reported in their coldest region in Siberia and the people there say bigfoot hibernates. No known primate hibernates but evidence has been presented of Neanderthal hibernation. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003552120300832# Neanderthals did inhabit the arctic in the western Urals. So where do you stand on this? Does bigfoot hibernate in coldest regions? If not, how does bigfoot survive that kind of winter?