Comments on: Next?

By: kittenz

kittenz — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:06:29 +0000

LOL I’d like to have another VW “bus”. Even one as beat-up as the last one.

By: kittenz

kittenz — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:02:48 +0000

Rillo777,

That was a just a man in a suit that left those tracks ;).

By: joppa

joppa — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:15:32 +0000

Kittenz - I thought of another comeback: bigfoot gas pedals for your VW van.

I would like to see a living group of Hobbits show up being very hacked off that somebody dug up Uncle Charlie.

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:18:09 +0000

Being an optimist, this is the year for many things…I am voting for the ocean…with recent success stories on the giant squid, I am hoping someone will go hunting for more and catch some “something else’s” and then we can really have some fun!

Good luck…remember to pack your cameras (and put film in them…and get the lens cover off…and get closer…have I missed anything?) AND look for hairs, fibers, scales, prints (foot and finger), and for the love of Pete (whoever Pete is…) do better than blobs…in the water or on land!!!

By: squatchwatcher

squatchwatcher — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:22:25 +0000

I would have to say the ocean as the next place of finding a new species of large animal. Maybe the forests of Southeast Asia will produce a living specimen of Homo Floresiensis, which might turn out to be an orang pendek. Hey, it could happen.

By: MattBille

MattBille — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:22:13 +0000

I think the next successes for cryptozoology - that is, the next large animals capable of getting media as well as scientific attention - are likely to come out of SE Asia (orang-pendek or more recent “hobbit” evidence) and from the Pacific Ocean, where new beaked whales await classification. I would not be surprised at all to see new species of large squid and sharks turn up as well. SE Asia is likely to offer a couple of new large hoofed mammals as well - remember the “black deer” and “slow-running deer” of which MacKinnon found fragmentary remains?

I expect someone to eventually confirm van Roosmalen’s tapir, which seems stuck in some kind of taxonomic limbo.

If I had to pick two additional creatures I would LIKE to see confirmed, but will not yet venture to predict, they would be van Roosmalen’s black and white jaguar and an undocumented strain of very large sturgeon from Lake Iliamna.

By: Notsobigfoot

Notsobigfoot — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:20:19 +0000

I would like to see all these things happen, however I fear it will be another year like any other in cryptozoology. The past few years have turned up some cool stuff, but most falls into the blurry picture category. However, the orang pendek was mentioned and I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the recent progress of research into that subject? I remember reading in one of Loren’s books that there was at least one group in the field that had obtained hair samples, and one researcher was quoted as saying that he felt a new primate discovery was “in the bag”. If i am mistaken or read it wrong I’m sorry, its been a while and im not sure where my copy of the book is. Mostly I’m just wondering if anyone knows anything about current expeditions for the pendek.

I think that if the orang pendek was discovered it would be the bridge that allowed modern science to truely begin accepting that BF and other mystery primates might be real. Let’s hope it happens.

By: MBFH

MBFH — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:04:51 +0000

DWA, orang pendek - “a small bipedal ape in the jungles of a Southeast Asian country”. I was trying to be broad and nebulous to cover Hobbits as well!

sausage1 - you aren’t from Blackburn are you?!

By: kittenz

kittenz — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:50:01 +0000

joppa, I had forgotten about those big shaggy footprint rugs! That little reminiscence made my day.

By: Rillo777

Rillo777 — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:38:38 +0000

kittenz:

I thought I found some Elvis tracks in my backyard but they turned out to be a hoax.