by Playfuls Staff |
30th January 2006
After several weeks of rumors and media reports the authorities from Malaysia have decided to send two teams of scientists to scour its southern rainforests and track down a giant creature that may be (or not?) Bigfoot. [more]
Bigfoot, a possible descendant of the giant primate species, Gigantopithecus Blackai (according to some theories) and the evolutionary 'missing link' between ape and man, is a three meters tall creature also known as Yeti in Himalaya, Yowie in Australia or Sasquatch in Canada. But beside fooprints and eyewitnesses its existence was never been proved. His name, Bigfoot, was inspired by the 50-centimeter-long footprints.
Bigfoot is one of the more famous creatures in cryptozoology. Many who consider the creature's existence a possibility claim that accounts of large, hairy, apelike or "wild man" creatures from the Pacific Northwest date as far back as the late 18th century. Some researchers have argued that these earlier accounts are consistent with more contemporary Bigfoot reports, while critics doubt their authenticity and question the accuracy of interpreting older reports through modern preconceptions. Skeptics also question the authenticity of these earlier reports in general, as many of them were not documented before the 1950s.
But now the media in Malaysia had reported mysterious bite marks and footprints. According to Reuters, National news agency Bernama has said the Johor state government intends to set up two expedition teams, one to explore the forests and a second to try and study the animal itself.
''We hope the expedition will be able to prove its existence,'' the agency quoted Chief Minister Abdul Ghani Othman as saying.
