The topic I have chosen to discuss for my expository essay is the existence of Bigfoot. I intend to prove that the animal known as Bigfoot is real through the evidence I intend to present. I will show that, through fossil records, videos, still images and eyewitness accounts, passed down folklore, as well as footprint and hair samples, Bigfoot really exists. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay Paleontologists have proven that there is a creature that matches the exact size and physical description of what a modern Bigfoot should match. Fossils found in both China and Russia are considered to be an ancient ape species known as Gigantopithicus. Some scientists speculate that this animal may have crossed the land bridge connecting Russia to North America in the same way ancient humans did. Although it is claimed to have gone extinct thousands of years ago, over the past hundred years there have been several species of megafauna that were thought to be extinct and that scientists have found to be thriving, alive and well. Furthermore, until 1900 most Western civilizations did not believe in the existence of mountain gorillas. Because they hadn't explored that far into the jungles of Africa and thought they were just stories of mythical creatures that the native tribes believed in. There are many videos that can be used to support the existence of Bigfoot. The most famous is the Patterson footage. Filmed in Northern California by Roger Patterson in 1967. Modern special effects experts and videographers have analyzed this film and state that at the time it was shot what you see in the film would have been impossible to fake. The footage clearly shows a large bipedal animal about seven to seven and a half feet tall walking up the mountainside, turning and looking at the director and then disappearing into the woods. There are numerous other videos that have been analyzed by top videographers and primate experts and cannot definitively disprove that what is being shown is a live animal. Trail cameras snapped numerous photos of bipedal ape-like animals passing by. Images are captured the same way as a deer or moose. This happened in forty-nine states plus Canada. Hikers, hunters and outdoorsmen have been reporting sightings and encounters for hundreds of years. Some even report being attacked. Nearly all Native American tribes in North America have legends and stories passed down for centuries about what they call the hairy man or forest man. There are also cave paintings and drawings in both America and Canada dating back more than a thousand years and mixed with men, buffalo, deer and moose, large ape-like animals that walk on two legs. Most native tribes say that the animal we call Bigfoot is actually very intelligent and much more closely related to humans than to animals. Thousands of footprints have been found. Scientists took casts of them and brought them to top science teams for examination. Many of the specimens studied have come back with results stating that it is not a hoax due to the gait pattern, the flexion between the heel, pads and toes, and the presence of muscle striations. Numerous hair samples were also found and sent to top DNA laboratories for analysis. Many of them have come back showing that they come from living animals that have primate DNA, but do not match any known primate that has their DNA recorded. The.