Gordon S. "Grover" Krantz (November 5, 1931 – February 14, 2002) was a professor of physical anthropology at Washington State University, and a renowned Bigfoot researcher. Krantz was also one of the few academics to advocate the killing of a Bigfoot for scientific study, if one could be located. November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Physical anthropology, often called biological anthropology, studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution. ... Washington State University   Aerial View of Pullman Campus For the state of Washington in the United States, please see Washington. ... This article may contain original research or unverified claims. ...

Krantz was born in Salt Lake City. He was raised in Rockford, Illinois until the age of 10, when his family relocated back to Utah. In 1955 Krantz earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Utah, and in 1958 he would earn a Master’s degree from the University of California. Finally, Krantz earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1971. He taught at Washington State University from 1968 until his retirement in 1998. The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is Salt Lake Citys top tourist draw. ... Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County, Illinois, USA. Often referred to as The Forest City, Rockford has 150,115 residents, while the metro area has 320,204 residents (2000 Census). ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U) is a public university in Salt Lake City, Utah. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... UMN redirects here. ...

Krantz’s specialty as a researcher and teacher included all aspects of human evolution, but he was best known outside of academia as the first serious academic to devote his professional energies to the scientific study of bigfoot. His studies of bigfoot (which he called "sasquatch," after the native term) led him to theorize that this was an actual creature; specifically, a surviving population of gigantopithecines. He was a defender of the authenticity of the Patterson-Gimlin film, and investigated the Skookum body cast. Species Gigantopithecus blacki Gigantopithecus bilaspurensis Gigantopithecus was a genus of ape that existed from 1 to 5 million years ago in what is today the countries of China and India. ... Frame from the Patterson-Gimlin film The Patterson-Gimlin film is a motion picture of a purported Bigfoot, filmed by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin on October 20, 1967. ... The Skookum Cast is a plaster cast taken in the Skookum Meadows area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington state. ...

Krantz was also drawn into the Kennewick Man controversy, arguing both in academia and in court that direct lineage to extant human populations could not be demonstrated. Digital reconstruction of Kennewick Mans face Kennewick Man is the name for the remains of a prehistoric man found on a bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, on July 28, 1996. ...

Krantz died in 2002 from pancreatic cancer in his Port Angeles, Washington home. Pancreatic cancer (also called cancer of the pancreas) is represented by the growth of a malignant tumour within the small pancreas organ. ... Port Angeles is a city located in Clallam County, Washington. ...

Among his works on sasquatch are:

• The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1977, with anthropologist Roderick Sprague)
• The Scientist Looks at the Sasquatch II (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1979, also with Roderick Sprague)
• The Sasquatch and Other Unknown Hominoids (Calgary: Western Publishing, 1984, with archaeologist Vladimir Markotic)
• Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence (Hancock House, 1999 ISBN 0888394470)
• Several scholarly papers, published in Northwest Anthropological Research Notes

Non-sasquatch works: Roderick Sprague is an American anthropologist, and the Director of the Laboratory of Anthropology at the University of Idaho. ...

• Climatic Races and Descent Groups (1980 ISBN 0815803907)
• The Antiquity of Race (1981, 1994, 1998)
• The Process of Human Evolution (1982, 1995, ISBN 0870733478)
• Geographical Development of European Languages (1988, ISBN 082040800X)