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"Bigfoot" fails DNA test [Part Human, Part Possum]
Reuters ^
| August 15, 2008
| Clare Baldwin
Posted on 08/15/2008 5:25:27 PM PDT by Zakeet
Bigfoot remains as elusive as ever.
Results from tests on genetic material from alleged remains of one of the mythical half-ape and half-human creatures, made public at a news conference on Friday held after the claimed discovery swept the Internet, failed to prove its existence.
Its spread was fueled by a photograph of a hairy heap, bearing a close resemblance to a shaggy full-body gorilla costume, stuffed into a container resembling a refrigerator.
One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96 percent from an opossum, according to Curt Nelson, a scientist at the University of Minnesota who performed the DNA analysis.
Bigfoot creatures are said to live in the forests of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. An opossum is a marsupial about the size of a house cat.
[Snip]
Despite the dubious photo and the commercial interests of the alleged discoverers, the Bigfoot claim drew interest from Australia to Europe and even The New York Times.
Biscardi said the DNA samples may not have been taken correctly and may have been contaminated, and that he would proceed with an autopsy of the alleged Bigfoot remains, currently in a freezer at an undisclosed location.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigfoot; callingartbell; cryptobiology; cryptozoology; dna; hoax
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Don't give up hope yet! We all know it's Bush's fault Global Warming contaminated the DNA sample.
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:25:28 PM PDT
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
Well, they got one thing here, Possums are bigger than house cats, at least the adults are, and they have extremely sharp teeth and are butt ugly!
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:27:21 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: Zakeet
A fake, who’d’a’thunk it?
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:28:49 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: Zakeet
Homopossumus died out at the end of the last ice age.
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:28:53 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Voting Conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
To: Zakeet
Vero possumus.
That’s Latin for “really a possum”.
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:29:22 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains...)
To: Zakeet
To: Zakeet
Part human, part possum. Big foot's already been found.
To: Zakeet
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:30:12 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
To: Zakeet
Humans can breed with opossums???
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:30:29 PM PDT
by
Momaw Nadon
("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
To: cripplecreek
Homopossumus died out at the end of the last ice age.
The Missing Link?
To: cripplecreek
Homopossumus died out at the end of the last ice age. Hmmm..... Google returns no hits on Homopossumus. That's really, really extinct, man.
;^)
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:33:27 PM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
( They told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated)
To: Republican Party Reptile
The Missing Link? No, that would be Roadkillus Erectus.
;^)
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:36:25 PM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
( They told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated)
To: Zakeet
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:40:02 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Huma for co-president! (it ain't over 'til it's over))
To: Momaw Nadon
Humans can breed with opossums??? Anything is possible in San Francisco these days.
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:45:36 PM PDT
by
tbpiper
(NObama '08 - Unfit in any color)
To: Zakeet
I just love that southern redneck sense of humor!
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:47:46 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(concerned conservative.)
To: Dumpster Baby
Homopossumus died out at the end of the last ice age.
Hmmm..... Google returns no hits on Homopossumus. That's really, really extinct, man.Try "gay possums". :-)
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:50:44 PM PDT
by
Oatka
(A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: johniegrad
Obama’a not a bigfoot. He’s a big ears!
To: Zakeet
"Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?"
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posted on
08/15/2008 5:59:30 PM PDT
by
LRS
(NO DRILLING; NO PEACE!)
To: Roscoe Karns
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen today. Thanks.
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