Guest Post: Fossil evidence supporting existence of the Sasquatch
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by William Jevning (@bukwas01), 38 year veteran sasquatch investigator, and author of "Notes From the Field, Tracking North America's Sasquatch". Read more about Jevning at his Bigfoot blog, Bigfoot Researcher.Many people are not aware that there does exist in the fossil record a creature very similar to the Sasquatch, but larger. It was discovered in China in 1935 and named "Gigantopithecus Blacki" The creature was first discovered by G.H.R. von Koenigswald, he along with other scientists of the time traveled to China and searched the markets there for "dragon bones" often fossils of extinct animals. He procured numerous teeth, and many species are represented by nothing more than teeth found fossilized.
Since then, Chinese scientists have discovered many teeth and 4 jaws of the Gigantopithecus. They have determined that the Gigantopithecus grew up to 12 feet in height and weighed as much as 1200 pounds, which makes it larger than the sasquatch which averages 8 feet in height and 800 pounds. scientists believe it stood erect and walked bipedally as do humans and the sasquatch.
With the huge gaps in the primate fossil record, and the fact that a species of creature very similar to the Sasquatch actually did exist, then the existence of the Sasquatch is very reasonable and not so incredible as many people might believe. The top photograph is of artist Bill Munns and his accurate reconstruction of a Gigantopithecus.
I always had one question about this theory. Can you tell an animal is bipedal from Teeth and jaw fragments? It is definitely a Great argument to why we can't find any bones of a sasquatch though. I mean these guys were thought to live for quite a while and these are the only fossils we have.
ReplyDeletei think most of us are aware of the teeth (and I think perhaps a finger bone recently found?)because of Dr. Krantz' work.
ReplyDeleteBut, the problem with this theory is that most megafauna and flora became smaller with evolution, an example would be the giant panda I think or tapir...? Not recalling all, but that is the primary direction of animals and plants that survived..they got smaller. Homo species on the other hand got bigger. So H.erectus, the most ubiquitous of the Homos, as a teen was 5'7"(much larger than h.sapiens at the time) and had an "unusual" orientation in the spine....seems H.erectus is better fossil evidence of Sasquatch to me, especially given modern reports that Sasquatch's are omnivores. And personal experience bears that out. Also, it is problematic that Blacki was most likely a quadruped and evolved to bi-ped? Makes a more eloquent argument that a homo species evolved into a home species, even if hidden. Of course there may be more than one species ...and I still wonder about all those very large skulls and skeletons recovered from native America burial sites still analyzed...