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According to the Aborigines, the yowies were terrifying to look upon: fearsome and hairy, up to or over 2.6 metres in height, with strong muscular bodies, powerful arms and large hands longer than a human's. They walked upright upon two legs with a stooped gait. Their heads were sunk into their shoulders, giving them the stooped appearance. They had a pointed sagittal crest {skull dome} and a receding forehead with thick, protruding eyebrow-ridges and large deeply-set eyes. Males were often hairier than females, who had long pendulous breasts. The feet of the yowie were much larger than those of a normal-sized human, and possessed an opposable big toe. These mysterious hominids roamed the remoter, forest-covered mountain regions either in small family groups or hunting in ones and twos, their females and young secreted back in their lairs. The Aborigines both feared and respected the yowies, venerating them as sacred creatures from the Dreamtime. In fact, as already pointed out, Aboriginal folklore is still full of giant manlike beings, creatures sometimes over three meters in height. While some were giant humans who made massive stone tools and sometimes fire, others were more ape-like. These giants are perhaps the real enigma of Australia's Stone Age history, for apart from these tools there are no fossil bones to convince anthropologists of their former presence here. They accept the presence of such beings in Pleistocene Java and China, for their massive fossil jaws and teeth are known from there; but otherwise, nothing short of such fossil evidence from Australia will ever convince these scientists that giant hominid forms once roamed this continent-not even evidence of their huge fossil footprints which, together with those of other, smaller hominids, have turned up in every Australian state!. Let us now examine these monster hominids in more detail with other evidence which further demon- strates that Australia possesses a vast, rich store of hitherto unknown and ‘unwritten’ history. Embedded in a shoal of mudstone on a hillside near Cowra in central western New South Wales are two half intact, enormous manlike footprints. Measuring almost one meter in length by 45 centimeters width across the toes, local Aborigines claim they were made by a giant man who stood 7.6 meters tall and who lived around Cowra in the long ago Dreamtime. If such height for any giant hominid ancestor seems unbelievable to some people, I might add here that Ihave found the Aboriginal descriptions of extinct giant marsupial and other mega fauna of the last ice- age extremely reliable. And, as I have said, giant-sized fossil hominid tracks are found Australia-wide. Take, for example, the six 61-cm long by 46-cm wide manlike fossilized footprints discovered in mud- stone in April 1970 near Penrith at the base of the eastern escarpment of the Blue Mountains of NSW. The size of the tracks, spaced two metres apart, suggested the monster that made them must have been at least four metres tall. Bathurst NSW Identical fossil tracks have been found in the Bathurst district to the west of the Blue Mountains in the vicinity of the giant megatool discoveries of mine. Could we be looking at the fossilized tracks of Meganthropus, or as I have suggested earlier, a 'home-grown' race of giant people? 296 Appendix D: Scientific Evidence Giants on the Loose Rex Gilroy on the “Yowie” Monster Hominids in Australia Cowra, Central Western NSW Penrith, New South Wales Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation