Bigfoot is Real, Study Says

Bigfoot believers now have DNA evidence to back up their claims that the legendary ape exists.

A team of scientists in Nacogdoches, Texas, led a five-year investigation testing supposed Sasquatch hair samples in order to sequence the animal's DNA. The results: The scientists mapped three genomes and concluded that Bigfoot is a hybrid between males of an unknown primate species and humans, likely due to cross-breeding with homo sapiens about 15,000 years ago, according to press release.

"Sasquatch nuclear DNA is incredibly novel and not at all what we had expected," lead scientist Dr. Melba S. Ketchum said in the article. "While it has human nuclear DNA within its genome, there are also distinctly non-human, non-archaic hominin, and non-ape sequences. We describe it as a mosaic of human and novel non-human sequence. Further study is needed and is ongoing to better characterize and understand Sasquatch nuclear DNA."

In case this all seems like make-believe, consider the lead scientist's credentials: Ketchum is a veterinarian who has studied genetics for 27 years and helped map the equine genome. And she's far from the first scientist to purport that Bigfoot is a real, living thing.

Earlier this month, a scientist from Idaho announced his plans to raise money to lead a search for Sasquatch? via blimp, according to Time.com.

Idaho State University anthropologist Jeffery Meldrum (also the author of Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science) teamed with William Barnes, a man from Utah to lead the hunt. If they pull it off, the two will operate a remote-controlled blimp equipped with a thermal-imaging camera that can spy any man-apes lumbering below.

They only hitch: They need to raise $300,000 to pull of the stunt.

Over in Russia, another group of scientists claim they are 95 percent sure the Yeti, Sasquatch's cold-weather counterpart, exists.

Last year, about a dozen experts met at a conference in Russia to inspect evidence that the animal was roaming around the Kemerovo region, Time.com tells us. Hair samples, footprints, and what looked like the animal's bed were among the proofs offered.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bigfoot-real-study-says-233400783.html

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