According to a CNN report,, a state in southern Malaysia has appointed a team of scientists to officially hunt for “Bigfoot.� Honestly, this has got to be the science equivalent to a snipe hunt doesn’t it?

I am picturing four or five senior Malaysian officials snickering in the corner then calling over some young, naïve, scientists. “Okay guys, we need you to go spend a few days� straining to contain his laughter he continues “out into the jungle and find Bigfoot. Now, this is a very serious scientific hunt, so we need you to look really really hard for him, okay?�

I will just assume that it is some sort of hazing ritual for scientists.

After a few days of wandering around in the Malaysian woods looking for Bigfoot, the senior officials will show up with a keg. A party and lots of story telling about the time each of them looked for Bigfoot will ensue. Those Malaysian scientists really know how to party, don’t they?

Not that I’m here to mock scientists, we all owe them a great debt, but on another science note, some sort of upright walking, two-legged crocodile was found in the basement of the New York American Museum of Natural History. Apparently the fossils had been down there in storage for 60 years, and were found again by accident.

Seriously?

Nobody ever cleaned out the basement? What else is down there (ah see I didn’t make a Jimmy Hoffa joke after all now did I?) do you suppose? You think maybe every decade or so they would root around down there and see what they can take out of the boxes. Hell, even I clean out my garage every two to three years whether it needs it or not.

Bat genitalia, a newly established vigor for Sea Monkeys and now these stories. I love science.