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Real or Legend, What's Your Favorite Cryptid?

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, May 14, 2017 11:51 PM

I got that they have not yet determined. Have you seen recently the pre-historic dog dinosaur they found in Montana? They thought it was part of another critter, but eventually figured it out. About 20,000 pounds I think.

WISHIMAY

Monday, May 15, 2017 1:56 AM

I agree with the commenters, it has remnants of a baleen filter and a backbone, itsa whale. Really badly disintegrated...

This is an interesting article, the thing about Argonaut Octopi having heat seeking moisture missiles is pretty disturbing

And they only live less than five years, so no giant octopussys

http://news.softpedia.com/news/13-Things-You-Did-Not-Know-About-Octopu
ses-68305.shtml

1. The first octopuses evolved towards the end of the Cretaceous (the last dinosaur era). They were very small (8 cm long). Today there are 289 species of octopuses, forming about one third of the all cephalopod species.

2.The world's largest octopus is the North Pacific Giant Octopus (Octopus dofleini): on average 3 m (10 ft) in length and weighing15 kg (33.3 pounds). Still, in 1957 an individual of almost 10 m (30 ft) and 272 kg (604 pounds) in weight was found on the beaches of the British Columbia (western Canada). The average size is achieved in three years.

3. The males of argonaut octopuses are 2 cm (0.8 inch) long, while the female is huge in comparison, with her maximum 10 cm (4 inch) in length.

4. Octopuses are solitary, territorial agile hunters, feeding mainly on crustaceans (crabs and lobsters) and mollusks (clams, squids, cuttlefish), sometimes fish (including sharks). They can fast up to 6 months. Octopuses turn active at the twilight. During the day they hide in hollows, whose mouth they tap with a stone. They digest their food in 12 hours at a water temperature of 18-19 degrees Celsius. The hard parts of the prey are not swallowed.

Octopuses are preyed on by sperm whales, seals, fish (conger eels, moray eels) and sea birds.

5. Octopuses have mimic ability overcoming that of a chameleon. Hatchlings have 65 chromatophores; at the age of one year, an individual has 1-2 million chromatophores. This are starred pigment cells in the skin, colored in yellow, orange, red, brown or black, and activated through nerves. When contracted, their color disappears, when spreading, their color dominates. Leucophores form white spots on the skin.

Octopuses can mimic not just the color, but also the shape of the environment, imitating, for example, a stone covered by algae, making the approach to their prey and escaping predators easier.

Iridophores are found in the skin; they refract light and give the octopus an iridescent brightness. Adults can show off colors as signs of aggression.

6. The octopus is the most intelligent invertebrate. Its brain is formed by 500 million large neurons (the human brain is made of roughly 100 billion smaller neurons), but their intelligence is comparable with that of the apes. If a cat has to get the reflex of opening a door after having watched the action many times, an octopus can detect the solution by itself, displaying "conceptual thinking". An octopus opens the plug of a bottle to get to the lobster inside. Besides mammals and birds, octopuses are the only animals that play.

Because octopuses are solitary, the offspring do not have a learning process based on direct transmission. The speed of learning is astonishing: an octopus found by itself in about 12 minutes how to get out of a cage. The next time, it escaped from the cage in 90 seconds, proving an unmatched memory. Octopuses have two memories, cerebral (brain) and one connected to their cups. It is known how curious octopuses are to scuba divers, a behavior typical to intelligent animals.

Octopuses live only 3-5 years, so they have limited time for accumulating information. Some researchers say that if octopuses had lived more, they, and not humans, would have been the dominant intelligence on Earth.

7. Octopuses can change body shape to escape traps. An octopus's only solid part is its cartilaginous "skull". So, if a hole allows the passing of the skull, the octopus will escape, quite a problem in aquariums.

8. The octopus's eye is the most sophisticated amongst invertebrates, approaching as structure and function to that of the vertebrates. Still

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Saturday, May 20, 2017 2:50 AM

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Think my first exposure to the subject was either Sasquatch stories or Nessie.

Personally I find Nessie more interesting than Bigfoot.

I thought Scooby Doo tracked down all of the Yeti, Bigfoot, Loch Ness, Abominable Snowman, and mythical Honest Democrats back when I was a kid.
Who knew?

JSF, I grew up and live in British Columbia. There are countless stories of Bigfoot or Sasquatch here. First Nations people believe in them.

Also there is Lake Okanagan which is in the Okanagan and supposedly has a creature in it. It is called Ogopogo. Think of a North American version of Nessie.

Brenda, this particular post of mine was tongue-in-cheek.
I'm fair certain this thread has many of my honest posts in it.
Have you heard of the giant race(s) found buried in North America?
Do the First Nations consider Bigfoot to be human, another race, or what?

Sorry JSF. I thought maybe it was tongue in cheek.

I have heard one such "story" about giants in NA. I heard that when I was child. So memory not too good on it.

First Nations with stories of Sasquatch range from Alaska, Yukon through BC and down into the Pacific Northwest, Oregon and California. It's not considered human and depending on which tribe you are talking to, the creature is either harmless or dangerous. Just depends on the tribe. I gather that most consider it a legend.

But the story I added about Ogopogo is another such as I said "Nessie" like creature.

Further info about giants:
http://www.truelegendstheseries.com/portfolio-post/true-legends-episod
e-3-holocaust-of-giants/
I believe this is a 3-volume set on the giants, not sure if this is the 2nd or 3rd part. All non-fiction.

http://www.bbsradio.com/cgi-bin/webbbs/webbbs_config.pl?md=read;id=311
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http://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/trailer-holocaust-of-the-giants/

Hope that helps.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, May 22, 2017 1:38 AM

I had forgotten that we just passed the 50th Anniversary of the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot video.

OONJERAH

Wednesday, November 15, 2017 11:52 PM

Yes, Patty, the Patterson-Gimlin film is 50 years old now. And Bob Gimlin
is still in demand as a speaker.

In 50 years, 100s of folks have claimed they saw bigfoot. So how come
Patty is still the only clear picture we have of one?
... Maybe because Roger Patterson was using a movie camera;
most folks lately are using their cell phone camera.

The BFRO (Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization) collects sighting reports
and keeps them an an accessible data base. http://www.bfro.net/gdb/
We can read the stories they have collected.

If I ever see a Bigfoot, I'll be scared and avoid it.

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:34 AM

Are you in a location more suited to Bigfoot?

THGRRI

Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:51 AM

Does extraterrestrial life count? Not that I believe any have visited here to date, but because I do believe life other than on our planet does exist.

OONJERAH

Thursday, November 16, 2017 5:38 AM

Quote JSF: "Are you in a location more suited to Bigfoot?"

Yes, pretty much: El Dorado gold discovery county, western foothills of
the Sierras about 60 mi west of Lake Tahoe. Bigfoot could walk thru this
neighborhood at night, reeking, & only the dogs would notice.
We should have Bigfoot sightings, but afaik, few have been reported.

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Does extraterrestrial life count? Not that I believe
any have visited here to date, but because I do believe life other than
on our planet does exist.

I agree. The universe is huge. There must be other life in it. So ETs
would be good here.

And as soon as I get a coherent post composed, I'd like to discuss the Mound
Builders. JSF, you're calling them Giants? They were about twice our height
& lived in mounds. These were famously built all over our great Midwest ...
has the government been removing them? This race was not limited to the
Midwest or even to the Americas.

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OONJERAH

Thursday, November 16, 2017 7:21 AM

http://www.baltimoreorless.com/2009/06/susquehannock-indians-giant-med
allions-and-pimp-sticks/

“In Captain John Smith’s map of 1606 is a picture of a Susquehannock warrior, with this curious description: ‘They seemed like giants to the English. Their language sounds like a voice in a vault. …One had a wolf’s head hanging in a chain for a jewel. His tobacco pipe three-fourths of a yard long prettily carved with a bird or a deer at great end, sufficient to beat out one’s brains. The calf of the chief’s leg was three fourths of a yard about, and all his limbs so proportionate, that he seemed the goodliest man we ever beheld. His hair on the one side was long, and the other shorne close like a coxe’s comb. His arrows were five-fourths long, headed with the splinters of a white chrystal stone, like a heart an inch broad and one and one-half inches long; these he wore in a wolf’s skin at his back for a quiver.'” —Maryland Historical Magazine

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OONJERAH

Monday, November 27, 2017 9:19 AM

I like this:

Cliff Barackman on His Ongoing Quest to Track Down Bigfoot
http://www.newsweek.com/bigfoot-sasquatch-legend-myth-403946

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