What Do We Know About Bigfoot? by Who HQ (English) Hardcover Book

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"Dive into the facts behind the most well-known footage of the cryptid and learn about actual scientific studies conducted to learn whether or not Bigfoot actually exists. Filled with accounts of over a century of potential sightings, this book will have every reader looking for footprints on their next hike"--

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The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Is the hairy cryptid of the forest fact, myth, or legend? Find out what we really know about Bigfoot in this exciting new series!Presenting What Do We Know About- an exciting new addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series!What Do We Know About Bigfoot? lets curious young readers explore what we actually know about the creature's mysterious history. Dive into the facts behind the most well-known footage of the cryptid, the Patterson-Gimlin film, and learn about actual scientific studies conducted to learn whether or not Bigfoot actually exists. Filled with accounts of over a century of potential sightings, this book will have every reader looking for footprints on their next hike. Bigfoot has been the star subject of movies, TV shows, books, and more... but is he really out there?Look for more Who HQ titles-Where Is Area 51?What Do We Know About the Loch Ness Monster?What Do We Know About Atlantis?What Do We Know About Crop Circles?

Author Biography

Steve Korté is a former editor for DC Comics. He is now a freelance writer and has written books for DC Comics and Warner Bros. In the Who HQ series, he has also written What Is the Story of Looney Tunes? and What Is the Story of Wonder Woman? He lives in New York City.

Excerpt from Book

What Do We Know About Bigfoot? In the summer of 2012, a woman was walking down a long, deserted road in the Hoopa Valley Tribal reservation in Northern California. It was nighttime, and she carried a flashlight so she could find her way along the dark road. Her name was Sadie McCovey, and she was about to have a disturbing experience that she would remember for the rest of her life. An eerie suspicion overcame Sadie. She felt as if something was behind her, watching her. She was afraid it wanted to overtake her, or even to capture her. She became very scared. Sadie turned around and pointed her flashlight behind her. Not far from her was something that appeared to be a giant human or an ape-like creature she had never seen before. It was crouching low to the ground on its two legs. Its eyes glowed green in the glare of her flashlight. Sadie screamed. "You could see the hair spiking around its face and the body," Sadie remembered. "As I screamed, it got up and turned around and just walked off." Sadie shivered for a moment at the memory of this encounter, and then she added, "I knew for sure it was Bigfoot." In North America, there have been many sightings of a large, powerful beast that has come to be known as Bigfoot. It walks upright and is completely covered in hair. All who have seen this strange creature insist that it is not a chimp or gorilla. It is also not human. It is something in between. Bigfoot is something that science cannot explain. A hairy giant known as Bigfoot could not possibly be real. Or could it? Chapter 1: Cryptids There are many things about our world that we understand through scientific study. We know why giraffes have long necks, how gravity works, and what causes earthquakes. But there are other things---unusual, mysterious, and sometimes downright scary---that no one has yet been able to explain. Some of these mysteries have existed for a very long time. For centuries, people from all around the world have reported seeing frightening monsters in remote locations. The science of studying mysterious, unknown beings is called cryptozoology. "Crypto" means "hidden," and "zoology" means the "study of animals." A cryptid is a creature that may or may not exist. Bigfoot is just one--but perhaps the most famous--example of a cryptid. Lesser--known cryptids include the Bunyip, an Australian water beast rumored to swallow humans whole, and the Windigo, a scary zombie--like giant who lives in Canada. Some people feel that cryptozoology is not a real science. Others, however, point to the fact that previously unknown animals are being discovered all the time. Some animals that were thought to be extinct or existed only in legend turned out to be quite real! The Vikings told tales of a giant sea monster called the Kraken that could wrap its deadly tentacles around a ship and pull it underwater. Few modern people believed that a monster like the Kraken really existed. But in 2004, Japanese researchers photographed images of a previously undiscovered giant squid that was around twenty--six feet long! Another giant squid was later discovered that was fifty--nine feet in length and weighed almost a ton. Even bigger ones might exist in the ocean, as yet undiscovered. Could this be the Kraken? Then there was the case of the coelacanth (say: SEEL--uh--kanth), a giant fish that could grow more than six feet long and weigh about two hundred pounds. It existed over 360 million years ago and was thought to be extinct. In 1938, however, a live coelacanth was caught off the coast of South Africa. And now we know that there are two rare species of coelacanth living in the world today. There have been many more previously unknown creatures that were discovered in the wild and later classified by scientists. The list of such animals includes Komodo dragons, giant pandas, and gorillas. One of the oldest cryptid mysteries is whether there are large, hairy, human-like beings living deep within wild forests. Giant apes once lived on Earth. Scientists know this because in 1935, a German scientist named Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald purchased a giant tooth in a Chinese drugstore. That tooth turned out to be a fossil of an extinct creature known as Gigantopithecus. These were massive beasts that lived millions of years ago in East Asia. They stood perhaps over ten feet tall and weighed five hundred pounds or more. At some point before the Gigantopithecus became extinct, scientists believe that it may have occasionally walked on two legs like humans. But what if the Gigantopithecus didn''t die out? What if a few of them survived by hiding in remote forests or deep caves? If Bigfoot exists, could it be a descendent of the Gigantopithecus? Chapter 2: Wildmen The name "Bigfoot" was not introduced until the late 1950s, but for centuries before that there were many stories and sightings of a hairy, often very tall, humanlike beast. They were often described as "wildmen." These creatures tended to live in hidden locations that made it hard for humans to find them. Stories about wildmen had been told for centuries in many countries, including China, Greece, and England. The Epic of Gilgamesh, a story written in Mesopotamia around 2000 BC, tells of a giant wildman called Enkidu who had "hair that sprouted like grain." Centuries ago, the people in Greece told stories featuring satyrs. These were creatures that looked like humans but also had animal body parts, such as hooves and horns. Around the year AD 77, a Roman named Pliny the Elder published a book called Natural History. In his book, he described many monsters from around the world, including some with dog heads, horse hooves, and long, hairy tails. Years later, a Greek historian named Arrian wrote a book about the great soldier and ruler Alexander the Great. The book told a tale of Alexander''s army battling hairy

Details ISBN0593386701 Author Steve Korté Pages 112 Audience Age 8-12 Series What Do We Know About? Language English Year 2022 Illustrator Manuel Gutierrez ISBN-10 0593386701 ISBN-13 9780593386705 Publication Date 2022-08-16 Imprint Penguin Workshop Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Format Hardcover Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2022-08-16 UK Release Date 2022-08-16 DEWEY 398.2454 Audience Children / Juvenile AU Release Date 2022-08-15 NZ Release Date 2022-08-15 We've got this

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