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Showing posts with label Bizzare Zoology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bizzare Zoology. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Basajaun and Iceman

 
Jay Cooney made this paste-up comparing the Basajaun photo from the Pyrenees mountains to the reconstrictions of the Minnesota Iceman as published by Bernard Heuvelmans. He subsequently decided not to publish the piece right away but gave me the permission to do so.
 


Jay BizarreZoo Cooney

Can you quickly tell me the main differences between the "real" iceman and the copy? I'm not gonna write much to go along with the comparison but I'd like to say that at least
 
Dale Drinnon

Very simple: Ivan Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans gave very long and very exacting descriptions of the original Iceman. Among its other features, it had apparently been shot in one eye and had the other eye bugged out of the socket. Nothing like that in the copy. Ivan Sanderson thought that the individual body hairs lightened in colour at the tip, a pattern similar to the fur of the agouti and called the agouti pattern. John Napier thought that was a suspicious reference and could indicate a model had been implanted with hairs from an agouti (a large South American rodent) in this new model there is nothing like that, the hairs are uniformly solid black and look like the hairs out of a wig. And among its other unusual features Sanderson noted a large pad or callus at the heel of the hand. Napier also thought that was suspicious, the now model does not show that. Not only is this model NOT the original, but it seems somebody has taken the pains to leave out all of the overly unusual or potentially suspicious traits [Jay Cooney said it was his impression that the original had its mouth shut not showing much of the teeth and the replacement model had its mouth more open and showing more of the teeth: he thought this was a significant enough difference to make an important point]

Whoever made up the new model was smart, but it seems like they were a little TOO smart and they gave themselves away because of it

Monday, 9 September 2013

Hagen Carcass Is a Dorudon?

While discussing the matter of the Hagen carcass with Jay Cooney, the possibility of an Archaeocete identity came up. I had several reservations about archaeocetes per se but I suggested that the creature could have been something like a Dorudon and have both the rear flippers and a whale-tail simultaneously. At this time I am thinking it could be the strongest candidate we have. Jay Cooney also feels it is something along those lines "Most likely something with the features of no dorsal fin, rear flippers[as well as the front flippers], and a whale-tail."
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Dorudon
 
http://bizarrezoology.blogspot.com/2013/08/hagan-carcass-comparison-images-part_5.html
http://bizarrezoology.blogspot.com/2013/08/hagan-carcass-comparisons-part-2gambo.html
http://bizarrezoology.blogspot.com/2013/08/hagan-carcass-comparison-images-part.html

 
Above, top to bottom: top, Thomas Finlay's painting of the Hagen carcass,
two views of Gambo and a drawing of the carcass by the witness.

 
Above, Bruce Champagne's SeaSerpent category 2b,
Gambo in two views once again and the Hagen carcass once again.
 
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Ambon-serpent-165351556
Below is Tim Morris' (Pristichampsus') reconstruction for the Ambon SS from Deviant Art, and below that his reconstruction for Bruce Champagne's "Eel-like whale" Sea Serpent type 2b. Jay Cooney guesses that both of them could be related to Both Gambo and the Hagen carcass, and the back fin on the upper reconstruction is not shown on the witness' sketch for the Ambon SS.

Friday, 17 May 2013

Algonquin Park Ape on Bizzare Zoology

 
A recent posting by Jay Cooney at Bizzare Zoology compared the screen capture of an Algonquin Park drive-by video purporting to show a kind of ape. Jay said it was a Bigfoot and that he thought the head matched the skull of a Paranthropus (Robust Australopithecine) I disagrred and said it was something more apelike (If it is indeed a live creature and not a mock-up of some sort)
 


Here is the panoramic view of the shot where the apelike figure appears, and below a cropping of it


 
My comment was that the image was much too blurry to be certain of anything, and we needed a face-on view to be comparable whereas we would need a profile shot of establish if it was a Paranthropus or not. A Paranthropus has a more vertical profile where a common ape has a protruding muzzle and prominent canines. And as a counter-proposal, I did the comparison with an ordinary ape, an orangutan, the lower one with a direct superimposition of the skull on the photo (The skull is still not quite at the proper size and it is a mite too large for the direct comparson)

 
Here is a reconstruction of a Miocene Sivapithecine together with a reconstruction
 of the fossil skull (which was partial) Below is the Canadian "ape face" again 
                 
Although it is difficult to make out I think I the lower face definitely has
 a more elongated muzzle than a Paranthropus would have. 
 
Jay also suggested that it was the samne as the Western Sasquatch
 such as is shown in the Patterson-Gimlin film   

 
A direct comparison shows that this Wood Ape from Canada has a smaller head
more pinched-in shoulders and much longer arms than 'Patty' has;

 
While by the same token, Patty is  bigger and more heavily built than the Paranthropus, but once again a smaller head and longer arms, and is intermediate to the regular ape proportions in that.

 
In comparison to the Paranthropus , the Algonquin Park Wood Ape shows these
 same features in an even more exaggerated sense. Head much smaller and arms longer still.

 
And so I did a series of comparisons to more mundane apes.
First a chimpanzee:

 
Then a comparison to a gorilla:
 (The head seems closest here)

 
And then to the orangutan.
All in all I think the orangutan wins out because the overall
 appearance is most similar, and especially the limb proportions are most similar.


Here is the source, from the Time-Life Nature Library book Evolution (the appendix)



And a comparison of the apes in general. I noted when I included this Harry Wilson Deviant Art illustration earlier that the Ufiti is in the Bili Ape size range and that the West African Bonobo is still an "Unknown animal"-classification of apes into species is still uncertain and cointroversial.

Here is the source video from YouTube. I believe Jay got his information about this from Bigfoot Evidence.



Saturday, 11 May 2013

Bizzare Zoology: Patty is Real

Jay Cooney has posted something on his blog that seems to cinch the matter of the sibject in the Patterson-Gimlin film as being real and not a man in the suit on his blog, Bizzare Zoology:
http://bizarrezoology.blogspot.com/2013/05/incredible-evidence-toe-extension-of.html

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

More Materials On Differentiating Bigfoot, Yeti, Skunk Ape, Wildman and Sasquatch

Above is a facial portrait and below is a footprint of the Eastern Bigfoot, which is often compared to a "Caveman" in appearance. The term Eastern Bigfoot has been used since the 1970s to discriminate the type, although there are problems with using that term since it has also been applied to the more apelike Skunk Ape (see below), with equal vigour and for about the same length of time. 
The footprints and build of this creature (Which I call the American Almas) are very much like Neanderthal fossils and so is the shape of the skull, face and braincase. They are burly creatures built like old-time professional wrestlers and with short bandy legs. Their arms turn out to be not particularly overlong in comparison to Caucasian Homo sapiens, but both hands and feet are large enough to seem outsized. Both hands and feet are squared-off in appearance. The top of the head is usually domed rather than peaked and one gets the impression of a head distinct from the shoulders 


 
The following photo is from Ohio and if genuine it would be one of these Eastern Bigfoots.
It seems to be running with unusual vigour and it has been suggested it would not be possible for a man in a suit to perform this action at such a great speed. The proportions look human enough.
 
 

 
Eastern Bigfoot drawings from an article posted on the blog recently.
The profile is similar to the famous "March of fossil humans" from the Time-Life book Early Man.
The head-on view is a close match for the "Mecheny" Almas seen in Siberia.     

Two peculiarities are associated with the American Almas males: the first is that the crown of the head can have thinning hair, or be partly to wholly bald on top; the second is that they can have beards and moustaches ranging from just noticeable to full-beard-hanging-to-the-waist.


Whether or not these photographs represent real creatures, they DO represent what the witnesses are reporting. These reports do continue more rarely out to the West Coast, and then there are areas both in Northwest Canada and then again in Mexico and points South where they are counted as specific regular types reported in those areas. In Northwest Canada they are the BushMen and in South America they are the Didis and Maricoxis.
 
 
Blogger Jay from the companion blog Bizzare Zoology sent in this illustration tpo my Facebook wall. He said the "Wild Woman" illustrated on the house pole could be meant for one of my American Almases and he pasted the skull alongside for comparison. It looks like a good match to me.

 
Further to the south there are what Sanderson called The Little Red Men of the Bottomlands (or of the Mississippi delta) and wondered if the reports could be related to runaway orangutans (in 1961): soon after that, "Skunk ape" reports started coming in from Florida
 
 
There was some variation overall in the kind of apes they were said to look like,chimpanzees were alleged almost as commonly as orangutans. And yet the striking similarity to orangutans insited on  in all of the best reports and shown in photographs is very hard to discount or to overlook.

Myakka Florida Skunk Ape on Left Compared to Orangutan on Right

 

Fangs as illustrated on an internet Skunk Ape site 
 
"Monkey" Skull Unearthed in Texas Early May 2009.

 
Large Apelike creature on the loose as shown on Fox News and illustrated on the Cryptomundo site.
Below, Illustration of a "Sasquatch" actually based o Skunk Ape reports. The Skunk Apes can walk weither bipedally or quadrupedally on the ground, and it does seem they do so more frequently than normal apes usually do. 


El Reno Oklahoma "Ape Hand" print on Henhouse

Apelike Category Tracks
Upper Left Himalayan "Yeti", Upper Right Orang Pendek from Sumatra
Lower Right Chinese Yeren, Lower Left from Pennsylvania
 
There is a great range in track shapes depending on how closely the big toe is clenched to the foot
 
                  
 
Footprint cast for the Skunk Ape: in this example, the two smallest toes seem to have run together in casting. These tracks characteristically show an opposed big toe: more recently they are often said to resemble the Orang Pendek tracks from Sumatra and lately publicised. Below is a comparison of the-is kind of "Bigfoot" with the typical (Smaller) Yeti from the Himalayas. A close match in proportions and stance.This type of Yeti is ordinarily said to be the size of a teenager or a young man for the males, females much smaller.These Yetis typically live at lower altitudes in the jungles (where they are known under different names) and only rarely go over the mountains when they need to get from one valley to another, and that most likely because of feeding patterns and population pressures.

 
Ivan Sandersons' comparisons for the "REGULAR AND LARGE YETIS", the latter also being the same as the Sasquatch
 
 
Big Footprints, attributed to Sasquatch. From California, Huffington Post
 

 Museum reconstruction of Sasquatch
 
  Above and below, Witness' drawings. The typical West Coast Sasquatch
has a small pointed head which does not have a distinct neck or separation from the shoulders visible
Both arms and legs are thickly muscled and the hands reach as far down as the knees.
The eyes are small, round, dark, and placed close together, nose is flat and the ears are rarely seen.

 
Artwork from Utah Bigfoot site, above and below
Traditional Representations of Sasquatch on border below



"Peter O, Hoot" above and "Peter O, Staredown" below.


 
Life-sized Sasquatch Mockup, credit is indicated.

 
 
The Patterson film shows a creature that is entirely consistent with the usual descriptions and  footprints (Footprints as found and as shown in the film)

 
The shape of the Sasquatch (Above) is unmistakeably different than your typical brown bear standing up. The typical shape for the tracks is also unmistakeably different.