Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center

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Search for the north American apeHumboldt Beacon
Posted: 09/08/2010 01:37:27 PM PDT


By Jason Valenti

In August, the Humboldt Beacon carried the article, “Validating Bigfoot” which described the work of researchers connected with the Falcon Project who plan to carry out research in Humboldt County. This is the first in a 4-part series.


In 2007 there was an incident that took place in the scientific community that created interest of considerable proportion. Most people didn't really notice what had happened, but Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum had struck the anvil of science so hard that the shock waves of his published paper entitled “Evidence for the Existence of North American Apes” will continue to be felt for years to come.

Scattered across the United States at that time were a handful of men who would feel that shock wave, and eventually unite under the same purpose: to find out exactly what the creature is that is mentioned in Dr. Meldrum's paper, and to capture it on film.


What is a hominoid?

Hominoids are what have, up to now, been collectively labeled as Pre-Humans, (post- Miocene Apes). These are the tailless short armed apes that we've all seen in the fossil record, from the Australopithecines to the Genus Homo.

It simply means the family of apes (according to classification) that resemble humans in their ability to walk on two legs instead of four. Outside of that distinction, Hominoids seem to share most of the same characteristics in the family of Hominidea with other apes.

In modern times, when some of the first foot prints were discovered around logging sites, the term “Bigfoot” was given to the individuals responsible for the tracks, because they had very large feet.

Almost every Native American and First Nation Tribe has a name to describe these creatures. The most popular of these names is Sasquatch. For the purpose of eliminating the confusion of so many different names for this being, we will refer to them here as Hominoids.


When did hominoids live?

From the recovery of fossils over the last several decades, scientists have been able to establish that there were several different species that existed from the latter part of the Miocene Era, up until approximately 12,000 years ago.

Since we now know that Hominoid creatures did exist in the past, the relevant question today is, “Do they still exist in modern times?”

What would have made them go extinct, given their superior adaptations of being equipped to live and thrive in the most hostile conditions in almost every ecological niche?

There seems to be enough evidence to show that extinction is not an accurate explanation; rather, the forests and jungles of the world have become their main habitat and escape from our presence as civilization has continued to press further and further into their living spaces.

Many people are surprised when they learn that approximately 45 percent of the arable land in world has never been foot-surveyed. That is a staggering statistic, when you realize how much land mass of our planet has not been inhabited (or even visited) by humans. It would certainly explain why most of the eyewitness reports of hominoids take place on the edges of forests and jungles of the world.

The Humboldt Beacon wrote:
Search for the north American ape, Part 2 The great hoax of the 1800sHumboldt Beacon
Posted: 09/22/2010 02:45:48 PM PDT


By Jason Valenti


In August, the Humboldt Beacon carried the article, “Validating Bigfoot” which described the work of researchers with the Falcon Project, a plan that intends to carry out research in Humboldt County. This is the second in a 4-part series by Jason Valenti, a member of the Falcon Project team. For additional information, contact the writer at jason@sasquatchresearch.net.


In the latter part of the 1800s, everyone thought that the Great Panda was a joke, a hoax and a grand tale that hunters brought back to augment their tales of adventure. I mean, come on. Here is an animal that is not doing anything sophisticated in its environment to hide from predators, and is a two-toned black and white bear, living its life against almost nothing but green background, and is a vegetarian. No one could believe that a bear lived like that. It had to be a tall tale.

Plus, with these slow moving creatures living on a restricted diet of only bamboo leaves, you would think that finding them would be a fairly simple game plan: find the bamboo, and you'll find the Pandas, right?

Wrong.

Their habitat is in the Szechuan province of China, which is geographically the size of Washington state. It is mountainous, very few roads run through much of it, and there are steep mountain cliffs at every turn, making it an extremely difficult area to navigate on foot (and this was the only mode of transportation available in the 1800s).

Proving the existence of the Panda is a perfect example of how a good sized animal can remain elusive for a long period of time in a given region.

It took over 60 years, from when the first expedition was launched in 1869, to find and capture the first panda. Then it was 30+ more years until someone accidentally came across a second one and shot it, thus proving their existence once and for all in 1935.

This “hoax” has now been hunted nearly to extinction.

The difficulty in finding those Pandas had nothing to do with what the Panda was doing to remain elusive, but everything to do with how we humans behave in the environments of our world. As much as people would like to believe that we can live in the deep forest and the jungles on this planet, there are an overwhelmingly large amount of evidence showing that we are not biologically equipped to do so, let alone pursue elusive animals on foot.

* How humans do it, how hominoids do it

Humans take down sections of forests and jungles to set up their communities and farms for their basic survival needs. Hominoids gather, hunt, eat, sleep, reproduce and live happily and easily in the forests that the planet provides them. Humans take years to painstakingly build roads over mountains. Hominoids just climb straight up said mountains.

Humans don't live anything like Hominoids, but we've been trying to track them their way, in their environment, on foot, where none of our modern conveniences, farms or roads exist. And we wonder why we can't find them.

We don't have the physiology to match theirs, and without some type of cooperative survival practices with other humans, we cannot keep up with them. Ecological niches, like where the panda lives, are perfect examples of why Hominoids may dwell in total self sufficiency, and completely out of the average range of humans.

* Gathering evidence

The first photographic evidence of the existence of Hominoids came from an expedition in the Himalayas in 1951. Eric Shipton took a series of images of an alleged trackway produced by a Yeti or Abominable Snowman.

Now, the Himalayan ranges are comprised of an area the size of the United States. The terrain is very uneven and is covered with jagged rock, ice and snow in many places. There have been millions of years for this Hominoid to speciate and for its feet to modify through micro-evolution, so that it can navigate this type of terrain well. The shape of the track of these Hominoids, in this part of the world, totally matches the type of foot it would have to possess in order to walk on that type of terrain.

Tracks are the best evidence we have to date that can be verified, studied and explained through the science of ichnology. This is basically the study of plant and animal traces, and has been less used by the average person in “civilized” countries, since humans don't live much in the wilds of the jungles and forests of the world.

Our ancestors didn't have a choice but to be well-educated about the tracks being made in the environment in which they lived. Their very lives depended on being able to identify the animals in their environment for the purposes of either avoiding predators or being able to hunt for food.

The Humboldt Beacon wrote:
Search for the north American ape, Part 3 The hammer drops - a flexible foot?Humboldt Beacon
Posted: 09/30/2010 10:05:02 AM PDT

By Jason Valenti

In August, the Humboldt Beacon carried the article, “Validating Bigfoot” which described the work of researchers with the Falcon Project, a plan that intends to carry out research in Humboldt County. This is the third in a 4-part series by Jason Valenti, a member of the Falcon Project team. For more information, contact the writer at jason@sasquatchresearch.net.

In 2007, it was recognized by science that unusual footprints found in the remote areas of North America were likely made by some sort of animal currently unknown to science. For years, researchers and a handful of scientists having been working on establishing the identity of the maker of these footprints. The footprints were given the scientific name Anthropoidipes ameriborealis (North American ape foot). The paper, by Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum of Idaho State University, has established the scientific recognition of what is creating the prints. What Dr. Meldrum was able to reveal (from his comprehensive studies on the hominoid foot casts and the study of the famous footage captured in 1967 of that hominoid) was that the characteristics of the foot itself had a flexion in its anatomical structure, that humans do not have. In other words, whatever is making these prints has a flexible foot, unlike a human or a wooden fake foot (that would be used to hoax). Dr. Meldrum identified this unique feature as a mid-tarsal break.

The heel of the Hominoid foot has an extension to it and a fore-shortening of the meta-tarsal foot bones, giving the ankle bones a positioning more forward than seen in human feet. The ankle bones are placed on a much larger ankle base bone that supports their bodies, which are significantly heavier than humans. This discovery demonstrated that the makers of the tracks had to have a living fleshy foot that possessed a flexibility unlike human or fake wooden feet.

Now, what Dr. Meldrum had done, in terms of identifying the maker of the tracks, was show enough evidence to prove that Hominoids are real and should be included in the academic journals of known living animals. Had this been a court of law, what he showed would have been enough evidence to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that these tracks belonged to a specific species. But, for reasons unknown, in this case that is just not good enough. Despite irrefutable evidence using Ichnology, the existence of Hominoids continues to be ignored.

When photogrammetric analysis of modern versus fossilized Hominoid tracks are compared with each other, they look almost identical amongst all other fossilized tracks and track ways discovered around the world, like the ones in Laetoli, discovered by Dr. Mary Leakey. Incidentally, fossilized Neandertal foot tracks, from 30,000 years ago, look almost identical to the oldest Hominoid fossilized foot tracks that we have on record, not to mention also looking like the ones found in the last 50 years. There has been, literally, almost no change, whatsoever, in the design and function concerning the feet of all Hominoids, since their existence.


Extinction?

We are told that Homo Sapiens wiped out the last of the remaining Neandertals around 12,000 years ago. From what full head and body skeletons we have of them, Neandertals do appear to look like upright walking apes. Their features are so heavily characterized by the classic primate anatomy, that even scientists have discovered in recent times, that we did not and could not have descended from them. Even Evolutionists admit that 12,000 years is not enough time to transform from the body type of Neandertals to that of modern Homo Sapiens.

Besides having the tough questions about how Hominoids can possibly exist, there is an even more disturbing list of questions, for consideration, when pondering what the implications will mean if they do exist. Because if they are proven to exist, the natural thing for a person to ask is, “Are we related to them, and if so, how?


12 Questions

We are told that we evolved from these Hominoids. Evolution tells us that organisms continue to improve and take the best genetic mutations to strengthen the species, then throw out the ones that make the species weaker. Less effective traits are supposed to die off and the stronger creatures supposedly live to procreate, ensuring the survival of the species. If these things are true, here is a list of 12 questions that I think would probably cross people's minds if conclusive proof of Hominoids was found, and we started comparing our biology to theirs:

If evolution is true and these are our ancestors, how and why did human bones become so much thinner and lighter than Hominoids in a mere 12,000 years? Why are our muscles five to ten times weaker, pound for pound, than any of the living primates? How is it that many humans have much less ability for their skin to tolerate direct sunlight for long periods of time than Hominoids did?

Why do we have a weaker, thinner type of adipose tissue that all other primates don't have? If we experience a traumatic wound injury we usually have to bandage and stitch that area of our body; all other primates have a body similar to other mammals in that they can have a severe gash and gaping wound and their body can heal itself without the need for stitches. A shorter way to say that is: How come our skin got so much thinner and weaker through evolution? How and why did the hair pattern reverse during this supposed evolutionary process. Heavier on the front to heavier on the back?

The head hair and nails of primates stop growing at a certain length. Why do human hair and nails keep growing? How did humans develop a neocortex four times that the size of our closest ancestor? And how did the way we carry our brains in our skulls move from the occipital region to the frontal lobe region of our foreheads in such a short, evolutionary chunk of time?

Why did we give up a much more efficient way of walking? Why is that all primates can swallow food and breathe at the same time, but we cannot? There are no signs of typical estrus cycles in human females versus apes; why and how did that happen? How did humans wind up with over 4,000 genetic disorders, but we can barely detect any in all of the living primates? And finally, how is that our closest genetic relative has 48 chromosomes and we only have 46?

All 12 of these questions have two common questions running through them in the background, which is: Isn't all of this evolution going backward, making a weaker species? And if so, how have we survived and why?

In the near future, there is a very good chance that these open ended questions can be resolved once and for all using technological breakthroughs in how Hominoid research is conducted. One such breakthrough has the potential to open some doors for a few Hominoid researchers, and with it, they may be able to prove once and for all, that the elusive creature in Dr. Meldrum's paper really does exist.