How about a not-so-extinct short faced bear? It was a long legged skinny critter which has supposedly been dead for about 10,000 years. Consider that Australopithecus and other such human-like critters have been dead for maybe thirty times that time maybe Sasquatch is really this species of bear?
This link follows the main link from an old post by dZ.
http://www.kokogiak.com/megafauna/in...shortfacedbear