Decades of paleontological work across southern China exploded into a wave of serious interest in famous cryptids, like Yeti and Bigfoot, after zoologist Wladimir Tschernezky first published his analysis of a mysterious footprint in the journal Nature in 1960. Tschernezky’s paper floated the idea that this footprint, alongside local Yeti reports from the surrounding Himalayas, pointed to the continued existence of a “very huge, heavily built bipedal primate” likely similar to the ancient Gigantopithecus fossils then emerging from those China dig sites.
To the ongoing consternation of joyless scolds, Tschernezky’s hypothesis has forever linked…
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