Originally Posted by
William Parcher
I wonder how a checkmate was achieved with animals that aren't walking the earth such as the Mastodon and the Sabre-tooth cats and the Tyrannosaurs, and all the other fantastic creatures which are said to be extinct. Bigfooters would generally agree that they don't exist in living form even though they've never really looked for them. Nobody is crowd-funding a search for living Archaeopteryx.
When do we see grants given to check the oceans for living Ammonites? The Bigfooters say that you can't find something unless you are specifically looking for it.
IMO, Bigfootery dictates that the game will always be afoot until one is brought in dead or alive, which will obviously
never happen. And so it goes, and so it is written.