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Along with the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti (Abominable Snowman), Bigfoot is one of the more famous creatures in cryptozoology. While most Bigfoot encounters took place in the Pacific Northwest, similar encounters have been reported throughout North America. The phenomenon began in 1958 when enormous footprints were reported in Humboldt County, California. Many supporters of the creature's existence claim there had been accounts of large, hairy, apelike or "wild man" creatures (or reports of inexplicably large, human-like footprints) from ...

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Individuals claiming to have seen Bigfoot generally describe a 7 to 10 feet (2.1 to 2.7 m) tall, ape-like (or some would say more human-like) bipedal creature with broad-shoulders and strongly-built. Excepting the face, palms of the hands and soles of the feet, the body is said to be covered with short shaggy hair that is usually black or dark brown in color, though rust, reddish, sandy or silver are occasionally reported. Reports sometimes describe large eyes [3], a pronounced eyebrow, and a large, pointed, low-set head[4] that is al ...

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Bigfoot - Mainstream response. Skeptics: Mainstream scientists and academics generally "discount the existence of Bigfoot because the evidence supporting belief in the survival of a prehistoric, bipedal, ape-like creature of such dimensions is scant" [8]. Furthermore, the issue is so muddied with dubious claims and outright hoaxes that many scientists do not give the subject serious attention. Napier wrote that the mainstream scientific community's indifference stems primarily from "insufficient evi ...

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Various types of creature have been proposed by believers to explain the sightings. Bigfoot - Gigantopithecus. Krantz argued that a relict population of Gigantopithecus blacki was the most likely candidate to explain Bigfoot reports. Based on his analysis of its jaws, he championed a view that Gigantopithecus was bipedal. Bourne writes that Gigantopithecus was a plausible candidate for Bigfoot since most Gigantopithecus fossils had been recovered from China, and al ...

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Bigfoot - Bigfoot. Primatologist John Napier inserts that "the term Bigfoot has been in colloquial use since the early 1920's to describe large, unaccountable human-like footprints in the Pacific northwest" (Napier, 74). However, according to Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark, Andrew Genzoli deserves credit for the first formal use of the word on October 5, 1958 (Coleman and Clark, 39-40). Genzoli was a columnist and editor at The Humbolt Times, and that day's front page story showed Jerry Crew, a bulldozer o ...

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(Creatures which are known to have existed and are presumed extinct are in bold.) Cryptozoology - Primates and hominids. Almas Biabin-guli Bigfoot (also known as Sasquatch) Brenin Llwyd Bili Ape Fear liath Gin-Sung Hibagon Humanzee Kaptar Kikombo Loys's Ape Mecheny Minnesota Iceman Mirygdy Moehau Mono Grande Napes (North American Apes) See also:

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While many cryptozoologists strive for legitimacy and some are respected scientists in other fields, and though discoveries of previously unknown animals are often subject to great attention, cryptozoology per se has never been fully embraced by the scientific community. A cryptozoologist may propose that an interest reports of animals does not entail belief, but a detractor might counter ...

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There have been a number of formal scientific studies of Bigfoot or Sasquatch. 1950s: Bernard Heuvelmans’s 1955 magnum opus, On The Track of Unknown Animals, did not specifically discuss Bigfoot, but did discuss Yeti accounts and is often seen as the root of cryptozoology. 1960s: Ivan T. Sanderson’s articles on mysterious animals, some appearing in the Saturday Evening Post, as well as his book Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come To Life (1961) that went through several printings ...

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