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Alleged 'Bigfoot' DNA Samples Sequenced, Turn Out To Be Horses, Dogs, and Bears
sciencehabit writes: In North America, they're called Bigfoot or Sasquatch. In the Himalayan foothills, they're known as yeti or abominable snowmen. And Russians call them Almasty. But in the scientific laboratory, these elusive, hairy, humanoid creatures are nothing more than bears, horses, and dogs. That's the conclusion of a new study—the first peer-reviewed, genetic survey of biological samples claimed to be from the shadowy beasts. To identify the evolutionary source of each sample, the team determined the sequence of a gene—found inside the mitochondria of cells—that encodes the 12S RNA, which is often used for species identification. Unlike standard DNA, mitochondrial genes are passed only from mother to offspring.
Seven of the samples didn’t yield enough DNA for identification. Of the 30 that were sequenced, all matched the exact 12S RNA sequences for known species, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Ten hairs belonged to various bear species; four were from horses; four were from wolves or dogs; one was a perfect match to a human hair; and the others came from cows, raccoons, deer, and even a porcupine. Two samples, from India and Bhutan, matched polar bear 12S RNA—a surprising finding that Sykes is following up on to determine whether some Himalayan bears are hybrid species with polar bears.
Seven of the samples didn’t yield enough DNA for identification. Of the 30 that were sequenced, all matched the exact 12S RNA sequences for known species, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Ten hairs belonged to various bear species; four were from horses; four were from wolves or dogs; one was a perfect match to a human hair; and the others came from cows, raccoons, deer, and even a porcupine. Two samples, from India and Bhutan, matched polar bear 12S RNA—a surprising finding that Sykes is following up on to determine whether some Himalayan bears are hybrid species with polar bears.
That is what Sasquatch wants you to believe by placing DNA from other sources!!!!
Now excuse me, I see I need to go out and spay those nasty chemtrails again. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )
Wow Americans really are uneducated and will believe in all sorts of garbage. From this, to paranormal crap, to religion, to pseudoscience, to debunked science like autism being caused by vaccines, etc.
From making more BS shows about something that doesn't exist, and people selling books on fabricated facts.
UFOs, Bigfoot, Ghosts!
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You would think the modern age of cameras in everyone's phones would produce evidence-a-plenty of these kinds of things.
But reality is far less interesting than we want it to be
No magic, no supernatural stuff --- and sadly no bigfoots or aliens that bother to come here and snatch cows.
Priest: "Universe from nothing, no laws of physics, sped up time"+ huge discrepancies. Creationism? No. Big Bang Theory
Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J...
Well, Russians are calling it the Snow Man. Almasty is what it's called in Caucasus - Chechnya and so on. Just saying.
The logical explanation is that Bigfoot has no mitochondria, and that the results obtained are from contamination. Scientists really shouldn't bring their pet polar bears to the lab.
Oh my!
(now questioned)
I've believe something like the big foot or more importantly the abominable snow man for many years now.
Due to Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known as the Andes flight disaster, in South America, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1... this was a rugby team that crashed and survived close to two months, on a snow whipped mountain top.
The big deal about this crash is they had to eat the dead to live. The book (which I read) mentions two large "ape like creatures were that were "busy" in the route they were taking to get down so they diverted. They tried to wait them out but grew tired of waiting so circled around them. It sounded like they ("apes") were waiting for the survivor out of curiosity.
They might of of been called abominable snow men in the book but there was no real clue what they were other than very large, ape looking beings (given bears they could of been).
Sasquatch may not be true; but there is still a dinosaur in a loch in Scotland.
It wasn't ManBearPig it was ManBearHorseDog! Quickly someone let Al Gore know!
Om, nomnomnom...
Chupacabra isn't included.
foot... that's how elusive they're!!
Channel 4 put out a three-part documentary series about this research last year, called Bigfoot Files. Depending on the episode you got a mixture of local legends, interviews with bigfoot chasers, and of course the search for and testing of the putative hominid remains. The article mentions that one of the samples tested as human; there's a rather heartbreaking local tale behind that. Very nicely done and desensationalised.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
so one matched DNA of a human yet they state still no matches.... when do we have DNA of a Sasquatch anyways?
They have nothing to compare and still could be human with over jealous hair genetics.
It's human on its father's side.
Even here, they've managed to mix in some horse!
First it's 'DNA Samples', then next it clarifies and says this is RNA, so we're actually only getting a view of what the mother was (the mother of bigfoot may apparently be human, or a horse, or a dog, or a bear). Subsequent references discuss 'DNA' and 'RNA' interchangeably like it means something. Seriously, how did this get past an editor?
Bigfoot has shape shifting abilities. That would explain why there is so little evidence of his existence. A shape shifting big foot turns the big foot is a robot theory on its ear.
Seriously, we have never found any corpses from this beast and with the amount that man has spread out, I am 100% certain we would have found the beast by now.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Two samples, from India and Bhutan, matched polar bear 12S RNA—a surprising finding that Sykes is following up on to determine whether some Himalayan bears are hybrid species with polar bears.
While it may look like a waste of time searching for bigfoot, something unexpected and interesting was found.
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So bigfoot turns out to be manbearpig. Didn't see that coming.
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Some have connected that creature to the closing of several lanes of traffic on a bridge.
The original headline was Alleged 'Bigfoot' DNA Samples Sequenced, Turn Out To Be Horses, Dogs, and Bears, Oh my!
What more proof do you need?
our new horsedogbear overlords.
The mystery continues.
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The general description of Bigfoot matches a large bear standing upright. Which they can do. Horses and Dogs are far less believable to be mistaken for Bigfoot, but possible depending on where they were found. A large wolf in the Himalayas might be when visibility is low. But I can't see how someone could mistake a Horse as Bigfoot. Even in extreme conditions.
"We should be many Degrees warmer"
lie.
"the Ice Sheets should be gone already"
lie.
" and flooding of Florida should nearly be complete. " ...."
lie.
" Don't forget about the Polar Bears Drowning
it's happening, although some of mating with brown bears and creating a new species.
"I look and see Piltdown Man all over again. "
This you are clueless. Their was NEVER scientific consensus on piltdown man, and when Scientist looked at it they declared it a fraud.
Let me explain this to you..well not to you becasue clearly you are an idiot who could change his narrative if he tried, but to the people who ahd the misfortune of reading your drivel.
Everything listed below has falsifiable tests, and in fact any of it can be tested by anmyon with an 8th grade understanding of sciecne...so not you.
1) Visible light hits the earth
2) When Visible light hits the earth IR is generated.
3) Visible light pass through CO2
4) Man spews giga-tonnes more CO2 then can be absorbed back into the system. This is becasue we dig up stored CO2 and release it in the air.
5) CO2 absorbs energy from IR.
SO more CO2 in the air, more energy it absorbs. Energy(heat) continues to rise.
That is AGW.
So, please come up with a scientific test that disproves any of those points. I look forward to you nobel prize winning paper.
Or, you need to explain what trapping more and more energy doesn't impact the climate.
If you can' do either of those, you have two choice: Continue spouting off nonsense like an idiot, or change you narrative to accept proven scientific facts.
oh, and read up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
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Legendary alpinist Reinhold Messner once wrote a book about his encounters with suspected Yetis in the Himalaya. He concluded that they were bears, a variant of Ursus Arctos, the same species as polar bears.
Have you read my blog lately?
You all think this debunks the idea of bigfoot but what this does is provide evidence that bigfoot does in fact exist and is a hybrid creature from the mating of horse, bears, dogs, racoons, etc.
So there!
Horses, dogs, and bears; oh my!
Table-ized A.I.
All this study shows is that some samples alleged to be sasquatch were not. There are many other samples of "unknown" DNA, which also proves nothing, since there is no control sample. This study has no bearing on whether sasquatch exists or not. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
In fact, there are thousands of eyewitness reports by individuals and groups, including park rangers, law enforcement, and military, hundreds of good pictures, and dozens of good videos of a large bipedal creature in the remote forests of America and Canada. This creature fits the physical and behavioral criteria for a primate, probably a relic population of Gigantopithicus. You can see some of this evidence at BFRO.net and other sites. Remember, the lowland gorilla was considered a myth just over 100 years ago.
cousin to the infamous man-bear-pig
... just how deep the conspiracy goes!
An article talked about over the years people make claims they've done some incredible feats mostly unintended. Like someone going too fast on a skateboard off a ledge, board separates from rider, board bounces off a wall, lands on hand railing at same time rider lands on board, which then by chance the angle was just right the rider was able to smoothly land on clear surface and come to a controlled stop. Yeah right, oh wait! A friend got it on the phone and it's gone viral on FB!
OK, so where's the space aliens, Bigfoot, and Nessie?
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sorry for OT but I could not pass this one up. You can here NORAD air defense command center, their callword is Bigfoot, on these frequencies, http://home.comcast.net/~kilow...
I actually have heard Bigfoot, NORAD's ATC base giving vectors for what I believe was a KC135, I scan the freq regularly. Not much traffic but occasionally hear something.
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anyone know if this study included any of Melba Ketchum's samples?
Be nice to have independent scientific confirmation or rebuttal of her claims. Otherwise this study will only add to the circus.
Cereal.
I guess he works fast.
The review was reviewed by a crack team of scientists at the University of Halabalaga. The reason for the findings are that Yeti/Bigfoot RNA is made up of horse, bear, porcupine, wolves and dogs, is the Yeti/Bigfoot are a cross between horse, bear, porcupine, wolves and dogs. I'd like to thank the academics and researchers at the University for their cracker jack work, and wish them well in the continued research and pursuit of these elusive creatures.