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Good points Norseman. Preservation of bones is not easy. We have high latitude permafrost preservation of fauna bone collections of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in Alaska, high latitude, high altitude mummy finds in the Andes, and intermediate the high latitudes we have peat bogs, tar pits, arid climates ( rift valley Africa ) and arid areas of Australia in the way of finding Mungo Man and Mungo Woman. Scavengers eat and scatter the kills of other predators. The African Savanna has been in front of cameras for a long time. Predators rarely get to eat their kills. Scavengers swarm and take over the carrion and scatter it. The African Leopards / Black Panthers are an exception to the 'smorgasbord' ground level frenzy. They drag various sized prey up into trees for undisturbed days of meals. My point is, out in the open, bones are widely scattered and animals that need bone marrow and calcium will eat the bones but leave the teeth*. Simple, basic separation, excluding soil acidity leaves us with 'open ground' and caves. Scavengers drag carrion parts into caves attempting to have a secluded area for meals. An interesting fact about Gigantopithecus blacki is that the only known mandibles and teeth are 'cave finds'. It is believed that porcupines ate the bones for the calcium and not the teeth. I would guess that the old world porcupines in that area had wicked quills. I am not of the belief that Giganto traveled out of Asia. Wiley Online Library has a free article on Giganto. It is a good read. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.23150 Keep in mind that when you are on Safari in Africa and a skeleton falls out of a tree, jump back into the Land Rover and punch it. For the rest of us, never go into caves (bats, bat guano). * footnote. I believe that Alligator snapping turtles eat everything including teeth. An area lacking predators of any size will have weathered skeletons that have been picked clean by birds and microbes. I have only seen one example in the way of a dog skeleton.

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Those weren't dermal ridges that you saw. It's hard enough for dermal ridges to be imprinted on dirt and mud, so not all of the casts that are claimed to have them are actual dermal ridges. Plaster casts produces a lot of artifacts during the curing process. Therefore, careful examination of the casts is required for confirmation. But, when it comes to snow footprints, the chance of it having dermal ridges are 0% because it violates the laws of physics. Snow isn't fine enough to be able to pick up the ridges. But what makes it impossible is that the thin layer of the surface of the snow melts immediately on contact with the bottom of the foot. Those weren't dermal ridges that you saw. It's hard enough for dermal ridges to be imprinted on dirt and mud, so not all of the casts that are claimed to have them are actual dermal ridges. Plaster casts produces a lot of artifacts during the curing process. Therefore, careful examination of the casts is required for confirmation. But, when it comes to snow footprints, the chance of it having dermal ridges are 0% because it violates the laws of physics. Snow isn't fine enough to be able to pick up the ridges. But what makes it impossible is that the thin layer of the surface of the snow melts immediately on contact with the bottom of the foot.

I think if Bigfoot exists it will be hard to find bones as much as it is hard to find the bones of all kind of animals known to man. Couldn’t we just put it in perspective by choosing any rare known animal thought to still be more common than Bigfoot? I doubt there are many bones found of wolverines, certainly not many condor bones out there. Passenger pigeons filled the sky. Now they are extinct. Where are the passengers pigeons bones? If Bigfoot is out there it’s near extinct. If it dies -as all things do - I don’t think we have to believe they bury their dead. In no time, that body would be gone. Normal nature already tells us why you won’t find a Bigfoot body in the woods unless you shoot one.