Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

Oct 21

Dryopithecus

Bob writes “Giganto get’s all the press, but a much more likely, hardwood ape was contemporary to giganto as well as modern people.. There are striking morphological and ecological similarities between Dryopithecus and what some call bigfoot.”

 

9 Responses to “Dryopithecus”

  1. Michael L

    Very smart dude. However, it is a big assumption to think BF is some million year old ape based on a few fossil fragments….Sasquatch is very intelligent with abilities that surpass our own- not some dumb prehistoric ape, but it was a good presentation like all of his are…
    Michael1lion

    • Nate Hallinan

      I think he presents a pretty decent case. He’s not saying ‘it is’ a prehistoric ape but potentially evolved from one. Like you said, we just have a few fossils, so we cannot make assertions whether Dryopithecus was dumb or intelligent. It could have been somewhat intelligent in its time and evolved into something even more intelligent currently. (Sasquatch) Many current day apes have physical abilities that surpass ours as well so why wouldn’t this creature?

      • Seamus J. C

        James, my man, to hear insulting language on any forum is uncomfortable for me. I’d appreciate your keeping things kind, and leaving out the politics, except as they apply to sasquatch issues. Thanks, man. I appreciate everyone’s input, just don’t want to see things degrade into pissing matches as they so often do.

        My thoughts:

        It’s at least a superficial, but accurate, observation that bigfoot is somewhere between ape and human. However, it’s difficult to imagine what, exactly, would be preventing it from evolving into the use of tools more sophisticated than rocks or sticks. Does it “lack” some brain feature that homo sapiens has, that would allow innovation for tools?

        The sloping forehead is often described, but I’ve never heard any comment on the length of the head from front to back. Neanderthals had sloping foreheads, but their heads were quite long from front to back, making their brains larger than ours. They were tool users in and of themselves, and they appear to have picked up some of cro-magnon man’s tool kit and made it their own (or was it the other way around?!)

        Some have wondered is bigfoot is actually a gigantic, hairy neanderthal–but I think if they were we would see what paleontology tells us about neanderthals–they made and used tools, all the time. It could be that the long hair of sasquatch hide the back of their heads, making it difficult to tell the total size of the cranium. Or perhaps they have sloping foreheads and SHORT craniums, like chimps or gorillas, and so fall shorter on brain size than we do.

        Can we absolutely assume that, since bigfoot don’t use complex tools, their brain size is relatively small? Maybe that’s not the given it would seem to be; maybe sasquatch have simply found tool making to be not worth the effort, and the extra baggage. One Native American tribe–I think I heard/read this here on SC–tells the story that the sasquatch used to make fire, but it became too easy for people to find them then, so they quit doing it.

        It is possible, though that sasquatch language is actually very highly developed, requiring a large brain. It’s been noted that “samurai chatter” is very speedy, and that a creature that needs lightning reflexes to run at great speed through and over all the obstacles of a forest needs a lot of brain power, in the area of the brain that coordinates physical movement and sensory perception. Perhaps carrying tools is a really bad idea for such a speedy, nomadic creature, but language is necessary to communicate with each other after covering large distances, in order to describe what was seen and experienced while traveling.

        Who knows? These are just some thoughts. But it’s fascinating to contemplate the different lines of evolution, how they differ, and why. At least for me. Bob Gymlin builds as good a case as any in this game of educated guesses for riddles with so few clues (compared, to, say, a sustained observation of a sasquatch family group a la Jane Goodall).

  4. MONTE M

    I feel there may be some bear in Sasquatch . When Wes asks people what they think it is that is not something you hear that people think it is part bear . David Paulides wrote of I believe Native American beliefs that they feel there may be some bear in the mix of what it may be made up of . I’ve heard a skinned bear looks somewhat human like ? My sister had a sighting on the East side of Leech Lake MN and stated she could smell it and said it did not smell like a bear . Bear tracks can be mis identified as Sasquatch tracks . Some Bears feet look somewhat human in some pics when the pic is captured in stride and you see the bottom rear foot in the air – say as it runs or makes its way . Many many people when describing what they saw say ” at first I thought it was a bear ” but then it crossed the road upright on two legs in two strides and then stepped thru a ten foot ditch without batting an eye up a steep embankment and stepped over a barbed wire fence like it wasn’t there before vanishing into the woods , or it looked like an ape but looked more human than ape etc . I think it may have some bear in it ?

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