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Seeing Cryptids: The Problems

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OK, good!
But its still outdated.
Where are the mid-tarsal breaks, the hypersensitivity to electronic devices, the human DNA, the affinity to gigantopithecus genus, etc.?

I am amazed by how much we "know" about bigfoots...
 
jerrywayne said:
You should contact Loren Coleman about the squirrel. Maybe it will be in the next edition of "Mysterious America."

I'm of the mind that mistaken sightings need not be explained by appealing to a similar looking creature. You think Brown and Strain may have seen bears. Possible, given the blackness of the animals and the fact bears are local natives. But, they claimed the animals were too fast ascending the hill for bears. I'm thinking they may have seen something totally different than what they think they saw. Consider that Brian originally claimed he saw two smallish black objects that appeared to glide up the hill. He admitted that he would not have thought of an ape had he had the sighting under a different context. He became convinced that he saw apes because others there, who really had no appreciative better viewpoint, all claimed they saw Bigfoot.
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When one of these folks plugs a bear out of season, I'll bet that becomes a bigfoot as well. The body will mysteriously disappear save for a "steak" that will be stored in a Mason jar under Funk and Wagnall's porch where again mysteriously, it will be stolen. Or swapped for a bear steak.
 
Georgia sometimes have reports of a unusually large canine like animal living in the south ga swamps and in northern florida. Some people claim its a remnant dire wolf population.

In my opinion its probably just a bear which in south ga is slimmer and more dog like than other bears.
 
Cainkane1 said:
Georgia sometimes have reports of a unusually large canine like animal living in the south ga swamps and in northern florida. Some people claim its a remnant dire wolf population......
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Help me out. What's one of these?

Thanks
 
^A Pleistocene wolf from North America, about 25% heavier on average than Gray Wolf and ecologically dependent on megafauna. Extinct since about 10,000 years ago. (Wiki)

People who report "Dire Wolves" I think are picturing something much larger than a Gray Wolf, but that really isn't the case. I'd call "dog bears" as good a hypothesis as any.
 
Cainkane1 said:
Georgia sometimes have reports of a unusually large canine like animal living in the south ga swamps and in northern florida. Some people claim its a remnant dire wolf population.

In my opinion its probably just a bear which in south ga is slimmer and more dog like than other bears.
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Bears are very slender in the spring, when coming out of hibernation. Kinda wierd looking, compared to how we're used to seeing them.

MikeG said:
Help me out. What's one of these?

Thanks
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IIRC, they were large wolves arond during the Pleistocene. See the wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_wolf.
 
Would or could a Dire Wolf swallow or chew up Bigfoot remains until nothing is left to identify?
 
Of course direwolves are still around. Plenty of high-quality footage of them available at all three seasons of Game of Thrones.

But that's Westeros. In North America, they are kept as pets by bigfoots. Of course, by those bigfoots which are dog people. Those which are cat people, have phantom panters as pets.
 
LTC8K6 said:
Dire wolves were probably frightened silly at the mere day old scent of a sasquatch...
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Well, sure. Think of how bad stinky feet smell. Now imagine those feet are BIG and your sense of smell is 100,000 times more acute. I'd run too.
 
The Shrike said:
So it's a known fact that apes can run uphill significantly and obviously faster than the 35 mph or so often attributed to bears?
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Well, Shrike, you are forgetting that we are dealing with the Clark Kent of the ape-world. "Faster than a speeding bullet......" and all that.
 
Cryptozoologists do tend to romanticize. Any mysterious lake or river sighting becomes a whale or reptile from pre-history. Any unusual canine is converted into a dire wolf; felines become an American Cheetah known from the fossil record.

A dog swimming/walking in the shallows in "lake monster" habitat is a "Super Otter." Bigfoot sightings become evidence of relict gigantopithecines.

Fun and games.
 
Drewbot said:
Oh! I thought it was a D&D monster.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...s-Preview-6-is-up-Large-Bullete-amp-Dire-Wolf
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The Rancho La Brea tar pits museum has something like 300 dire wolf (Canis dirus) skulls on one wall. It's one of the few times paleontologist a have been a blue to do population studies, in fact. Beautiful creatures. I wish I could clone one.

That's the cool part of REAL science--we get to study monsters made even more awe-inspiring by the fact that they were real. They in fact encountered humans.

You want to be really terrified, look up short-faced bears. Closest thing to a demon humans have ever encountered.
 
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