Bigfoot named as Johor Hominid
02 Jul 2006
JOHOR BARU: A website set up by local researchers of the Johor
Bigfoot has named the elusive giant biped as the Johor
Hominid.
The johorhominid.org website stated the Johor Hominid
phenomenon was probably the most significant and mind-shattering
discovery in anthropology.
Its founders, biodiversity researcher Vincent Chow and
palaeoanthropologist Sean Ang, told the New Straits Times on Friday
that evidence of the Johor Bigfoot compiled so far showed it was an
unknown species of Homo erectus (a species of hominid believed to
be an ancestor of modern humans that existed about two million to
400,000 years ago).
Ang said data compiled by Chow were "believable", adding that
scientists could come face to face with a living species of
prehistoric man.
Chow said the first mission of the website was to protect the Johor
Hominid so that its conservation was guaranteed by the Government
as a part of world heritage.