Does Bigfoot exist?

Really, I'm asking with a straight face.  There's a fairly sizable contingent dedicated to finding an answer.

In his own tribute to one of nature's most enduring modern mysteries, Canadian wildlife artist and environmentalist Robert Bateman has his own depictions of Sasquatch and Yeti.

In fact, cryptozoologists credit Bateman's portrayal of the forest giant, also known as Ts'emekwes to the Lummi tribe, skookum to some indigenous peoples, and the abominable snowmonster, with lending credibility to those convinced the elusive primates are out there, somewhere.

Far from detracting from a serious painter's body of work, we believe it adds to Bateman's cachet, for having the ability and playfulness to at least ponder the possibility.  His piece, Sasquatch, shown here was reproduced and made available in a signed and numbered limited edition of 950.

In his description of the piece, Bateman wrote:  "The moss-draped branches barely part as a large, dark shadow moves swiftly through the northeastern forest. It is a vertical shape, over six feet tall; its long legs rule out a bear. It must be a primate, but is it ape or human? The Salish tribe of southwest British Columbia call the being "Sasquits," meaning "hairy man," from which we have coined the name Sasquatch."

Bateman's other piece, which he painted for fun, is titled Yeti and can be viewed in the display of images accompanying Wildlife Art Journal's story, The Spectacular And Troubling World, According To Robert Bateman .

There are few sites more informative (and entertaining) than the one operated by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization where you have access to the latest reported sightings, news stories, and video and everything and anything having to do with Sasquatch. Or one can always tune into AM radio's Coast to Coast AM with the high priest of the paranormal George Noory who took over the program from Art Bell.

"We have this need for some larger-than-life creature," ecologist and author Robert Michael Pyle writes.  Among those who join Pyle in the hope that Bigfoot roams the darkened understories are novelist and naturalist Peter Mathiessen, primatologist Jane Goodall and conservationist Russ Mittermeier.