{"id":26,"date":"2012-05-24T02:35:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T02:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/05\/24\/a-bigfoot-hunting-we-go\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:21","slug":"a-bigfoot-hunting-we-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/05\/24\/a-bigfoot-hunting-we-go\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bigfoot Hunting We Go…"},"content":{"rendered":"

IO9 is reporting that the esteemed Oxford University has put together a team to research the legendary cryptids Bigfoot and Yeti<\/a>. Yes, Oxford. As in England.<\/p>\n

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[Oxford University researcher Bryan] Sykes will team up with Michel Artori, director of Switzerland’s Lausanne Museum of Zoology, to analyze organic "bigfoot" remains (hair samples, for example) assembled by Bernard Heuvelmans, a Belgian-French scientist and explorer, widely regarded as the father of cryptozoology. (Heuvelmans investigated reported sightings of the creature for over half a century before he died in 2001.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Amazingly, this wasn’t the only Bigfoot news this<\/span> month. <\/p>\n

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Cryptomundo revealed that it is legal to kill Bigfoot in Texas<\/a>. That fact that this act is legal is not terribly surprising. Unless it’s a barely existing in utero collection of cells, killing for the most part is encouraged in Texas. <\/p>\n

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John Lloyd Scharf got a response from the Texas Wildlife officials about killing Bigfoot:<\/p>\n

Mr. Scharf:
\nThe statute that you cite (Section 61.021) refers only to game birds, game animals, fish, marine animals or other aquatic life. Generally speaking, other nongame wildlife is listed in Chapter 67 (nongame and threatened species) and Chapter 68 (nongame endangered species). \u201cNongame\u201d means those species of vertebrate and invertebrate wildlife indigenous to Texas that are not classified as game animals, game birds, game fish, fur-bearing animals, endangered species, alligators, marine penaeid shrimp, or oysters. The Parks and Wildlife Commission may adopt regulations to allow a person to take, possess, buy, sell, transport, import, export or propagate nongame wildlife. If the Commission does not specifically list an indigenous, nongame species, then the species is considered non-protected nongame wildlife, e.g., coyote, bobcat, mountain lion, cotton-tailed rabbit, etc. A non-protected nongame animal may be hunted on private property with landowner consent by any means, at any time and there is no bag limit or possession limit.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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\nArt by Mark A. Nelson<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In 1996 I edited The Big Bigfoot Book<\/span>. The graphic anthology of original tales featured work by Phil Hester, Mark London Williams, A. A. Attanosio, John Bergin, Neal Barrett, Jr., Norman Partridge, Batton Lash, William Browning Spencer, Dan Burr, Mark A. Nelson, Ted Naifeh and others. With all this recent interest in Bigfoot, wonder if it’s time to produce a new volume?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IO9 is reporting that the esteemed Oxford University has put together a team to research the legendary cryptids Bigfoot and Yeti. Yes, Oxford. As in England. Quote: [Oxford University researcher Bryan] Sykes will team up with Michel Artori, director of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n