Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster Are ‘Pure Fantasy’

Professor Tim Coulson, a renowned biologist, has asserted that creatures such as the Bigfoot are “pure fantasy.”

He stated that their existence is a “scientific impossibility” and suggested that cryptozoologists should stop investing their efforts in searching for them.

According to Professor Coulson, the lack of skeletal remains and credible imagery serves as “strong and reliable indicators” that these creatures are not real and never have been. He further noted that evolutionary timelines provide a “big and very final nail into cryptids’ coffins.”

For instance, Bigfoot’s only potential ancestors would be humans, who only migrated to the Americas from Africa about 16,000 years ago. This time frame, he explained, is far too short for humans to evolve into a giant, gorilla-like species.

Similarly, for a plesiosaur or other type of dinosaur to have survived extinction in Loch Ness, a breeding population of several hundred individuals would need to have lived there for at least 66 million years—an idea Professor Coulson deemed implausible.

He concluded that the scientific probability of these creatures’ existence is “so tiny as to be confidently discounted.”

“I would dearly love for Bigfoot, Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, and other cryptids to exist,” he said, “but the scientific evidence says otherwise.

“The likelihood of such beasts living undetected in forests, mountains, and lakes, in great numbers, for thousands of years without leaving a single skeleton, fossil, bone fragment, or skin sample is hard enough to swallow.

“But when we also consider the biological and evolutionary factors that determine these species’ purported existence and long-term survival, the likelihood reduces to the point where it becomes so tiny as to be confidently discounted as pure fantasy and fun figments of our imagination.”

While Professor Coulson believes the existence of large cryptids is highly improbable, he considers alien life a genuine possibility.

“The problem we have at the moment is we don’t know how to explore more of our universe quickly and easily.

“Because we have only explored a fraction of even our local neighborhood, it is much too early to rule out the existence of aliens, be they simple bacteria-like organisms or little green beasts with long necks and oversized heads.”