Neanderthal Vocal Tracts Reconstructed After 30,000 years

Robert McCarthy of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton reconstructed Neanderthal vocal tracts to simulate their voice with a computer synthesizer. McCarthy used the fossil record to help his reconstruction of the Caveman's voice. Simple sounds were made, but McCarthy hopes to create a whole Neanderthal sentence. McCarthy spoke at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Ohio this month.

BFRLC Lunch date set for April 4th, 2008

Hello BF Researchers! We are just over 48 hours until the next BFRLC meeting. What an exciting time it has been for the club - the highlight of the past couple weeks has definitely been the addition of the BFRLC Trading Cards, check them out, print them out and collect them as they come. This weeks meeting will cover such topics as merchandising, our pending field trip, and the possible endorsement of a candidate by the BFRLC. So, what will it be for lunch? A trip to a taqueria? A nice rye bread with pastrami? Vegan soup? I can hardly wait, see you all there.

BfRLC Trading Cards Debut

Collect them all. These 4x6 in. BfRLC trading cards will debut every Friday until I can no longer think of new things to make a card for. The design and Illustration is once again thanks to our good friend Guy Edwards.

I plan on starting with famous researchers, Krantz, Green, Coleman and so forth, then famous Bigfoot characters like Patti and Clubfoot. Also I plan on famous Bigfoot locations like Bluff Creek,and Ape Caves.

So stay tuned every Friday for a new card, download it print it out, and hang it on your wall. Feel free to suggest new ideas and let's see how many of these we can do together. I believe next week we are going to post BfRLC Trading Card #002 "Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans" the father of Cryptozoology.