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Subject: Re: Biscardi footage and comparisons with fossil apes From: scmarlowe posted Sun, Feb 10 2008, 6:47am  UPDATE: I recently discussed new protoprimate finds with Dr. Jonathan Bloch of the University of Florida who just published and described new finds from formations just outside of Yellowstone Park. He's named two new protoprimate discoveries and suggests that primate origins BEGAN here in North America and radiated to other areas of the world. The new finds are dated proximate to the dinosaur extinction and he told me that colleagues now believe that primates branched off from other mammals about 90,000,000 years ago -- meaning that early protoprimates existed contemporary with dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period. Subject: Re: Biscardi footage and comparisons with fossil apes From: scmarlowe posted Sun, Feb 10 2008, 6:57am  ADDITIONAL UPDATE: In so far as the trap camera video that gave rise to this "adventure" is concerned: Research by MK Davis suggests that the video footage in question is connected to other material of the same ilk once in the possession of Matt Knapp and displayed privately on the West Coast a couple of years ago. I have been unable to get in contact with Mr. Knapp to confirm of refute this. The footage in question has been judged to have "considerable generational loss." This means that the video is a copy of a copy of a copy (and so on) which has lost clarity and contrast due to its history of reproduction. While the animal pictured is still thought to be a real creature, it is now my opinion that it is a known primate -- most likely a chimpanzee -- as were the animals appearing in another of Tom's similar acquisitions which I discussed on his radio show last year. Subject: Re: Biscardi footage and comparisons with fossil apes From: mysticete posted Tue, Feb 12 2008, 10:33pm  Thanks for the update Subject: Re: Biscardi footage and comparisons with fossil apes From: mysticete posted Tue, Feb 12 2008, 10:38pm  I am aware of these discoveries, but I don't think they lend any weight to the idea of bigfoot. All these protoprimates would have looked more like tree shrews, bushbabies, and lemurs, not bipedal ape like creatures. We still have no evidence of any of these lineages surviving past the Oligocene, and Anthropoids (Tarsiers, monkeys, and apes) are still believed to be an old world radiation.

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