Fossil Finds

Gigantopithecus or Paranthropus?

Which do you favor? What’s you vote in finding a place in the family tree for the best possible candidate for Bigfoot?

Front Yard Surprise

Dorothy Sisk and Jim Westgate of the Lamar University were more than a little delighted with what they discovered while cleaning up debris from Hurricane Ike. Images.

Ivan T. Sanderson: Great, Only Human

Ivan T. Sanderson (1911-1973) by Mark A. Hall, Wonders, December 1992, pp. 65-67. Twenty years ago an old friend died. He was a British subject who chose to live in the U.S.A. During his life Ivan T. Sanderson was first a nature writer and then an avid fortean author, devoting his later books and articles to mysterious natural phenomena of all kinds. His life and work are difficult to summarize adequately here. More information can be found in an excellent biographical entry that appears in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 57 (Clifton, NJ: J.T. White, 1977), 192-194. The [...]

Fossil Track of “Bigfoot”: Metaphoric Buddhapada?

Is there a deeper reality to the recent story of a supposed “fossil” track being found in Tennessee? Could there be other answers? Are there dangers for anyone wanting to talk about or challenge the story? Images.

Were Hobbits Relict Homo erectus?

There is a new analysis of the skull of Homo floresiensis, compared with others. Images.