Bigfoot

AKA = Sasquatch

First Reported: 1924 (+prior legends)
Region: Pacific Northwest (Primary)
Habitat: Forest
Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is an alleged ape like animal said to inhabit the remote forested areas of much of North America, with many of the sightings occuring in the Pacific northwest of the US and British Columbia, Canada. Bigfoot is sometimes described as a large, bipedal hairy hominoid creature, and many believe this animal, or its close relatives, may be found around the world under different regional names. Bigfoot is also one of the more famous examples of cryptozoology, a subject dismissed as pseudoscience by mainstream researchers. It is because of that in addition to unreliable eyewitness accounts and a lack of physical evidence very few scientists accept the likelihood of Bigfoot's existence. Most who have expressed an opinion consider the stories of Bigfoot to be a combination of unsubstantiated folklore and hoaxes.

Mainstream scientists and academics generally discount the existence of Bigfoot. In addition to the lack of evidence, they cite that while Bigfoot is alleged to live in regions that would be unusual for a large, non human primate, i.e. temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere, while all other recognized non human apes are found in the tropics, in Africa, continental Asia or nearby islands. The great apes have never been found in the fossil record in the Americas. No Bigfoot bones have been found.

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Almas - Mongolia's Bigfoot
Barmanou - Afghanistan and Pakistan
Dzonokwa - British Columbia Coast, Canada
Ebu Gogo - Flores Island, Indonesia
Fear liath - Scotland
Fouke Monster - Fouke, Arkansas.
Giant (mythology) - worldwide survey of giant races and legends
Hibagon - Japan's Bigfoot
Kapre - Philippines.
Momo the Monster - Missouri.
Nguoi Rung - Vietnam
Orang Pendak - Sumatra, Indonesia.
Orang Mawas - Malaysia
Sasquatch - A super hero named after the creature
Skunk Ape - Florida
Windigo - Canadian Shield
Lake Minnewanka Wildman - Western Canada
Woodwose - Medieval Europe
Yeren - the Mainland China
Yeti - Tibet's Bigfoot
Yowie - Australia's Bigfoot
Bunyip - Australia

cryptozoological species