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Greetings from New Mexico. I'm an avid hiker living in Albuquerque and I've always had a fascination with this cryptid. As I get more free time I plan to focus my personal research on this and begin planning my hiking activities in areas with promising opportunities for experiencing a siting.

Hello from Florida. Interested in you guys stories

Quoting now: Faunal Dating The term faunal dating refers to the use of animal bones to determine the age of sedimentary layers or objects such as cultural artifacts embedded within those layers. Scientists can determine an approximate age for a layer by examining which species or genera of animals are buried in it. The technique works best if the animals belonged to species, which evolved quickly, expanded rapidly over a large area, or suffered a mass extinction. In addition to providing rough absolute dates for specimens buried in the same stratigraphic unit as the bones, faunal analysis can also provide relative ages for objects buried above or below the fauna-encasing layers. Pollen Dating (Palynology) Each year seed-bearing plants release large numbers of pollen grains. This process results in a “rain” of pollen that falls over many types of environments. Pollen that ends up in lakebeds or peat bogs is the most likely to be preserved, but pollen may also become fossilized in arid conditions if the soil is acidic or cool. Scientists can develop a pollen chronology, or calendar, by noting which species of pollen were deposited earlier in time, that is, residue in deeper sediment or rock layers, than others. The unit of the calendar is the pollen zone. A pollen zone is a period of time in which a particular species is much more abundant than any other species of the time. In most cases, this tells us about the climate of the period, because most plants only thrive in specific climatic conditions. Changes in pollen zones can also indicate changes in human activities such as massive deforestation or new types of farming. Pastures for grazing livestock are distinguishable from fields of grain, so changes in the use of the land over time are recorded in the pollen history. The dates when areas of North America were first settled by immigrants can be determined to within a few years by looking for the introduction of ragweed pollen. Pollen zones are translated into absolute dates by the use of radiocarbon dating. In addition, pollen dating provides relative dates beyond the limits of radiocarbon (40, 000 years), and can be used in some places where radiocarbon dates are unobtainable. Fluorine is found naturally in ground water. This water comes in contact with skeletal remains under ground. When this occurs, the fluorine in the water saturates the bone, changing the mineral composition. Over time, more and more fluorine incorporates itself into the bone. By comparing the relative amounts of fluorine composition of skeletal remains, one can determine whether the remains were buried at the same time. A bone with a higher fluorine composition has been buried for a longer period of time. https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/anthropology-and-archaeology/archaeology-general/dating-techniques

I found this. I don’t know why? But I find biology much more interesting than geology. https://geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey-notes/glad-you-asked/glad-you-asked-how-do-geologists-know-how-old-a-rock-is/

They start out just like us..........small. Parental units teach them but they make mistakes and leave tracks. The back story is that I was out for a Sunday drive exploring an area that I was introduced to as a child in the late 60's. I parked at a spot over 3,000' in elevation. Changed coffee and wandered around. About 50' from my vehicle, I found a trackway of small feet leading downhill. Elegant prints with very little heel strike and good lift off at toes. I improvised a measuring device in the way of a 'craft stick' with metric markings. The larger lines are centimeter divisions. The craft stick is about 4 1/2" long / 115 mm. It is light weight and rigid. I was on site for 2 days to monitor print degradation overnight. Morning sun angle was good for toe interpretation. The slope was on a hill, about 12 degrees. Compound slope going downhill and not flat. Soft dirt next to gravel. Rigid type tape measure was awkward to use because it would fall over. There is an image with the tape measure and a dangling small tape. I dangled the small tape above the ground to give a vertical reference to the slope of the hill / tracks. The print below the little tape is from my shoe. I monitored the site over time. I interfered with their hunting. 1 to 3 trail cameras did not produce results. The images are old. Scanned from transparencies except the 1st image with craft stick and scale.

Yep. Those look familiar. Same type of behavior that we have found. Always very interesting.

@Madison5716@NorthWind Either we have bare footed children running around our hinterlands? Not in summer I might add. Or we have men carving small feet and somehow hoaxing humanity? Or something is out there. Feral children? Baby Bigfeet? It stands to reason that if Bigfoot is a real creature? It will have a real population of adults, old and crippled, male and female and babies and adolescents. Dr. Meldrum made fun of Will’s find. Which is odd. I get that the 20 inch track is the safe bet. But not all tracks are gonna adults or males.

^Right, also BigTex and probably others on here. I wrote in 2016: I think many field science people in general are probably stumbling over BF evidence without awareness and ascribing it to other events. They can't help that, of course. Awhile back in my area, I read news about a study of stream habitat ecology, and there was a quote that made me laugh. It was something about "we know there are kids playing in (numerous streams) because we see their footprints all the time".