Re: if Bigfoot were real what would it be?
Lorenzo Love (lllove@snowcrest.net)
19 Sep 1996 19:53:55 GMT
dbarnes@liv.ac.uk (Dan Barnes) wrote:
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>I read in this months Fortean Times that they are having Bigfoot hairs DNA
>analysed at Ohio Uni. Anyone know of the results. It is also claimed that a
>Chinese hair analysed bore no resemblance to any known primate.
There seem to be a lot of reports of bigfoot hair going in for analysis,
I rarely hear of any results. It's always "still under investigation".
The one analysis results I did hear about reported that the bigfoot hair
was a artificial fiber often used in theatrical costumes.
>With reference to the identity of the possible hominid:
>Neanderthal: too short but last remains only 27,000 years ago.
Plus Neanderthals were human.
>Gigantopithecus: too tall (14 ft., I think compared to Bigfoots 7 ft.) and last
>remains are in the region of 1 million years old. But there are three sites in
>China where G is found with early human remains (Longuppo being one).
>
> Dan.
No one knows how tall Gigantopithecus was because no limb bones have been
found. Best guess is 9 to 10 feet, but as this is based on teeth and
jaws, it's just a guess. Reports of bigfoot run from 6 foot to 10 foot
and up. The last remains of Gigantopithecus date from about 400,000 ybp
See Eric Pettifor's excellent site at:
http://www2.portal.ca/%7Eerie/arch/gigantopithecus.html
Lorenzo L. Love
lllove@snowcrest.net
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