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gncxx King-Size Canary
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 Posted: 12-09-2013 18:44 Post subject: |
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Big Dave wades into the debate:
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-09-10/david-attenborough-i-believe-the-abominable-snowman-may-be-real
| Quote: | David Attenborough believes that the Yeti – or Abominable Snowman – may be real.
The world-renowned naturalist and broadcaster says he thinks the creature of Himalayan legend – which has a North American cousin known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch – could be much more than a myth.
“I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that," said Attenborough, speaking today at a showcase of upcoming programmes on UKTV.
“There are footprints that stretch for hundreds of miles and we know that in the 1930’s a German fossil was found with these huge molars that were four or five times the size of human molars.
“They had to be the molars of a large ape, one that was huge, about 10 or 12 feet tall. It was immense. And it is not impossible that it might exist. If you have walked the Himalayas there are these immense rhododrendron forests that go on for hundreds of square miles which could hold the Yeti."
Attenborough, who was addressing an audience at the Saatchi Gallery to promote a second series of Natural Curiosities on the Eden channel, explained why the existence of the beast had not been proven up until now: “If there are some still alive and you walked near their habitat you can bet that these creatures may be aware of you, but you wouldn’t be aware of them...” |
He's visited the place, so he'd know better than some, right? Anyone aware of this German fossil found in the 1930s? |
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| oldrover Great Old One Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Total posts: 2146 Location: Wales Gender: Male |
| Posted: 12-09-2013 21:25 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | He's visited the place, so he'd know better than some, right? Anyone aware of this German fossil found in the 1930s? |
No, not necessarily he's only visited the place very briefly compared to the locals, who make it clear that the Yeti isn't a simple flesh and blood animal.
The German fossil wasn't found in the Himalayas but in a Chinese medicine shop in China or Hong Kong by Ralph von Koenigswald. It was a gigantopithecus molar. A few molars and a jawbone are all the fossils we have for this species. At one time based on the width of the rear part of the jaw* it was suggested that gigantopithecus might have been bipedal, though this idea has been largely abandoned. As a result of this previous line of thought, as well as the fact that it lived on the same continent as the yeti is supposed to, they got lumped in together.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gigantopithecus_blacki_mandible_010112.jpg |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-09-2013 18:09 Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the info. The evidence gets a bit vaguer on closer examination, I suppose. |
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| oldrover Great Old One Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Total posts: 2146 Location: Wales Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-09-2013 22:17 Post subject: |
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| Doesn't it always. |
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