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We've seen claims that people coexisted with dinosaurs. In fact, some say Jesus may have even ridden a dinosaur. And while anyone who is at all interested in science can laugh at such claims, some new evidence has just appeared on the scene. It's not evidence of humans and dinosaurs; it's even better.
It's Jurassic Bigfoot.
KOMO in Seattle, Washington is reporting that a local man has found a fossil footprint of bigfoot in a layer of rock from the Jurassic Era. Cliff Crook, who has been looking for bigfoot since an encounter in the 1950's, considers this footprint to be proof not only that bigfoot existed, but continues to exist today.
Though the story includes some skeptical elements, it's lacking in some pretty basic detail. Crook says he found the footprint in a river bed dating to the Jurassic Era. How do we know this? The Jurassic Era is known for its large herbivorous dinosaurs. Mammals were primitive then, and there is no evidence for anything resembling a primate. In fact, the oldest known primate fossil is from the Paleocene, some 80,000,000 years after the end of the Jurassic Era. If this footprint is actually from that period, a lot of natural history is about to be re-written.
When questioned about his beliefs, Cliff Crook had nothing to say to skeptics. He doesn't want to talk to them. And we may have a clue on why he has that attitude. The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, a pro-bigfoot group, has this to say about Crook: he is a "notorious, attention-hungry bigfoot hoaxer." That fact could have been mentioned in the article. While I don't think the BFRO is a skeptical organization, it's telling that even the Bigfoot proponents don't accept Crook's evidence.
There's no need to explore this further or ask more obvious questions such as how a fossil footprint proves present-day existence, or how primates apparently evolved before their ancestors. It's just another example of the media looking for ratings rather than journalism.
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At the end of the article, when asked about finding a dead Bigfoot body, he hopes that never happens. Why not? That would convince everyone. Besides, you'd have to account for that famous film of Bigfoot walking along being a hoax. The hoaxer admitted it, just like fellow who took the Loch Ness Monster photo. Funny, people will listen to hoaxes and believe them, but they won't listen once the hoax has been revealed as a hoax.