So, the press conference on BigFoot is today...

[lefty]

Scam ????

[Heath Ledger]

Id have to say most definitely yes.

[timvp]

A second bigfoot thread? :rolleyes

Not to spoil the surprise, but bigfoot doesn't exist. Neither does Santa Claus.

[Taco]

A second bigfoot thread? :rolleyes

Not to spoil the surprise, but bigfoot doesn't exist. Neither does Santa Claus.


Damn it LJ, You better not say SHIT about the Easter Bunny :nope

[BacktoBasics]

To date, taxonomists have identified less than two million distinct species, mostly mammals and birds. But it's estimated that the number of undiscovered species—primarily fish, fungi, insects, and microbes—ranges from ten million to more than one hundred million. Even at the low estimate, it's an enormous number.

Granted that we are talking about the potential of a very large mammal. I think its too tough to say it in fact doesn't exist although we haven't found any solid proof...just don't forget that it wasn't until this last decade that giant squid we're nothing more than a fairy tale too.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Granted that we are talking about the potential of a very large mammal. I think its too tough to say it in fact doesn't exist although we haven't found any solid proof...just don't forget that it wasn't until this last decade that giant squid we're nothing more than a fairy tale too.

the woods isn't the ocean :lol Little bit of difference there...

[BacktoBasics]

the woods isn't the ocean :lol Little bit of difference there...:rolleyes Not all undiscovered species live in the ocean. If this announcement was anything other than a mythical ape we wouldn't be calling it a hoax. New species on land are found every year.

With that said I think its a hoax based on the people involved.

Here you go and :wow it was in some wooded mountain areas.


A team of scientists led by Conservation International (CI) found dozens of new species in a survey of New Guinea's Foja Mountains. The December 2005 trip by a team of U.S., Indonesian, and Australian scientists discovered new species of frogs, butterflies, plants, and an orange-faced honeyeater, the first new bird from the island of New Guinea in more than 60 years.

The discoveries were made under CI's Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) which deploys expert scientists to poorly understood regions in order to quickly assess the biological diversity of an area. The conservation organization makes RAP results immediately available to local and international decision makers to help support conservation action and biodiversity protection.


Mammal expert Kris Helgen is seen holding a golden-mantled tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus) in New Guinea. Photo from Conservation International.

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"It's as close to the Garden of Eden as you're going to find on Earth," said Bruce Beehler, vice president of CI's Melanesia Center for Biodiversity Conservation and a co-leader of the expedition. "The first bird we saw at our camp was a new species. Large mammals that have been hunted to near extinction elsewhere were here in abundance. We were able to simply pick up two Long-Beaked Echidnas, a primitive egg-laying mammal that is little known."

The expedition found a new large mammal for Indonesia — the Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus), formerly known from only a single mountain in neighboring Papua New Guinea. Other discoveries included what may be the largest rhododendron flower on record — almost six inches across — along with more than 20 new frogs and four new butterflies. The new species of honeyeater, the first new bird discovered on the island of New Guinea since 1939, has a bright orange face-patch with a pendant wattle under each eye.

New Guinea's forests are some of the most biodiverse in the world, but they are increasingly under threat from commercial logging. However, the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea are so isolated — in the furthest reaches of the Indonesian province of West Papua - they remain relatively untouched. In other parts of Indonesia poaching is taking a heavy toll on wildlife populations.

[polandprzem]

Big Foot brings presents?

[angel_luv]

Is Bigfoot Harry?

[angel_luv]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_and_the_Hendersons

[stretch]

A second bigfoot thread? :rolleyes

Not to spoil the surprise, but bigfoot doesn't exist. Neither does Santa Claus.

is biggie or pac alive?

[Viva Las Espuelas]

will this conference be sponsored by The Weather Channel

[JoeChalupa]

Someone is going to have a bigfoot in their mouth today.

[Anti.Hero]

It's pathetic how these stupid ass hoaxes are now setting up press conferences. Tired of the same old dance of releasing shitty pictures I guess.

[Trainwreck2100]

Anyone remember the "human clone" presser from a few years ago.

[angel_luv]

Someone is going to have a bigfoot in their mouth today.

:lol

[phyzik]

Is Bigfoot Harry?

Another picture was released today... this time of the alleged bigfoot still alive in his natural Habitat right before they blew his ass away....

http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/FilmHarryHendersons.jpg

[PakiDan]

^^^ LOL at Manny's prom pic!

[IceColdBrewski]

I think its a hoax based on the people involved.



DING!DING!DING!

The two guys who found him are so called "bigfoot hunters" and actually run "bigfoot tours". How lucky for them that they found a bigfoot. I mean this is sure to be a windfall for what was probably a pretty shitty business. That's just lucky. :rolleyes

[thispego]

http://www.cnn.com/
listen to the press conference live! lol! link is on banner on top of page.

[lebomb]

Bigfoots cousin loves tha hos

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/bigfoot.jpg

[thispego]

look what this dude's wearing!!?? thanks for dressing up!

[BacktoBasics]

I see no banner on the site.

[jcrod]

look what this dude's wearing!!?? thanks for dressing up!

They're from Georgia, what did you expect.

[thispego]

I see no banner on the site.

yeah its over apparently. i had tot ake a call and it was done.

[BacktoBasics]

thispego....YOU'RE FIRED

[thispego]

They're from Georgia, what did you expect.

fuckin slobs

[thispego]

thispego....YOU'RE FIRED

on what authority?

[jcrod]

DING!DING!DING!

The two guys who found him are so called "bigfoot hunters" and actually run "bigfoot tours". How lucky for them that they found a bigfoot. I mean this is sure to be a windfall for what was probably a pretty shitty business. That's just lucky. :rolleyes


They were saying they weren't bigfoot hunters. They were just hiking in the woods. :rolleyes And they want to do bigfoot tours, but they want to keep the location secret to protect them.:lol

They supposedly have video of them walking around and gave the press more photos, but won't release the video yet.

[lefty]

Bigfoot Hunters Press Conference Reveals... Little
Friday, August 15, 2008

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A still from the famous 1967 Bigfoot film, which may or may not show a man in a gorilla suit.
A still from the famous 1967 Bigfoot film, which may or may not show a man in a gorilla suit.
The much-anticipated Bigfoot press conference Friday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., revealed little more than two men — introduced by a self-styled Sasquatch seeker — claiming to possess the 7-foot "body" of a "bipedal creature" on ice in a secret location, awaiting an autopsy.

The men, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, were joined in the press conference by Tom Biscardi, host of an Bigfoot Internet radio show, who said the men approached him with their "find," saying, "We want to talk to Tom Biscardi... They didn't want to meet anyone else."

Biscardi showed reporters two blurry photos, claiming one was the mouth of the "creature" while the other was another creature running through the Georgia woods. The men claimed they "stumbled on the creature," but would not reveal more because they were concerned about it being an "endangered species."

Biscardi reiterated his invitation to FOX News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly to come to Georgia and view the body, and plugged his Internet radio show.

He said there wouldn't be anything more revealed Friday, but promised that he would "assemble" a group of scientists to examine the alleged corpse.

Whitton recounted how he and Dyer found the "body," and said that more Bigfoots "paralleled" them as they were loading it onto a flatbed truck.

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Bigfoot Body Chupacabra-cam? Biscardi said Whitton and Dyer had gotten death threats from Sasquatch fanatics, whom Whitton deemed "psychos."

None of this was likely to dissuade skeptics, even among Bigfoot experts, who questioned Biscardi's past ventures and noticed that the body in the freezer looked a lot like a Sasquatch Halloween costume available on the Internet .

"It definitely looks like our costume," Jerry Parrino, owner of TheHorrorDome.com, told FOXNews.com.

"This 'body' has little to do with Bigfoot and everything to do with a Sasquatch costume that someone developed after watching too many gorilla movies," warned Loren Coleman , who runs the influential Cryptomundo blog devoted to strange and unknown animals. "The teeth that seem to have been placed in the mouth could be my late mother's false teeth."

"I've had interactions with Tom Biscardi in the past, and based on that history, I would say that anything he is involved in is suspect," Idaho State anthropologist and Bigfoot investigator Jeffrey Meldrum told Scientific American .

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Reserve spokesman Tom Mackenzie told the Associated Press his agency isn't taking the claim seriously and won't investigate.

"It's not on endangered species on any list that we've got," he said.

[hobbit feet]

Knew this was too good to be true

[Bigzax]

autopsy for fail...n e x t.

[desflood]

"Bigfoot" fails DNA test Fri Aug 15, 6:48 PM ET

PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Bigfoot remains as elusive as ever.

Results from tests on genetic material from alleged remains of one of the mythical half-ape and half-human creatures, made public at a news conference on Friday held after the claimed discovery swept the Internet, failed to prove its existence.

Its spread was fueled by a photograph of a hairy heap, bearing a close resemblance to a shaggy full-body gorilla costume, stuffed into a container resembling a refrigerator.

One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96 percent from an opossum, according to Curt Nelson, a scientist at the University of Minnesota who performed the DNA analysis.

[IceColdBrewski]

They've been working on this hoax for quite a while.

http://www.bfro.net/hoax.asp