Dr. Jeff Meldrum Names It "Anthropoides Ameriborealis"

Last October, Meldrum presented some of his evidence to a symposium of 40 paleontologists at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, and emerged with a peer-reviewed published paper acknowledging that what he'd collected were not the prints of a known species, nor were they hoaxes, but genuine casts of an unknown North American primate.

Meldrum was given the authority to classify the beast with a taxonomic name, the Anthropoides Ameriborealis, which translates into North American ape. It might not seem like much compared with a body in a freezer, but in the uphill battle of Bigfoot science, it's a huge step, and as close to acknowledged scientific proof as anything seen to date. " It has certainly helped me shift the perception from that of tabloid fodder into the area of biology." says Meldrum. "But a new species will only be recognized when DNA is collected."

Here is a PDF of the actual paper.