{"id":4878,"date":"2013-02-19T02:57:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T15:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2013-02-18T10:57:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T23:57:57","slug":"dna-evidence-of-bigfoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2013\/02\/dna-evidence-of-bigfoot-4878.html","title":{"rendered":"DNA Evidence of Bigfoot?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think that there might really be Yeti in the Himalayas, and there’s a lesser chance that Bigfoot is also real, in North America. So I was really excited to read the following at Red Orbit<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A team of scientists has published the results of a five-year study of DNA samples from Sasquatch in the journal\u00a0DeNovo Journal of Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Researchers claim they have sequenced three whole Bigfoot nuclear genomes, helping to prove that the legendary creature exists in North America, and is a human relative that arose 13,000 years ago.<\/p>\n
The scientists hypothesize that the Bigfoot creature is a hybrid cross of modern Homo sapiens, with a novel primate species, giving it the species name\u00a0Homo sapiens cognatus<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And it sounds legit, with the study appearing in a scientific journal, and information like this:<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly non-human hair (morphologically), washed thoroughly as is accepted procedure in forensic science to remove contaminates by two laboratories with two techniques, yielded human mitochondrial DNA sequence in all 111 samples in the study,\u201d she said. \u201cThirty samples were taken past the screening to yield human mitochondrial haplotypes with twenty of those being entire mitochondrial genomes 16,500 bases long. Since species identification depends on the mitochondrial DNA in forensics, this clearly placed the samples in the family Homo, ie hominin. Screening by sequencing with universal primers would have also shown contamination if it had been there.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So the hair is non-human looking, but has some human DNA….<\/p>\n
This would be a massive story (and therefore would perhaps be in your daily newspaper or TV news) if it were true. Sadly there is plenty of evidence that this is not the proof many had hoped for. \u00a0According to the website<\/a> of the “journal”, their current issue is Volume 1, Issue 1, and the Bigfoot story is the only work mentioned. The website is new this year, and there is nothing anywhere about who runs it, let alone who the editors of the journal are. So, the journal has been created solely to add credence to the study. That is massively suspicious…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think that there might really be Yeti in the Himalayas, and there’s a lesser chance that Bigfoot is also real, in North America. So I was really excited to read the following at Red Orbit:
\nA team of scientists has published the results of a five-year study of DNA samples from Sasquatch in the journal\u00a0DeNovo Journal of Science.
\nResearchers claim they have sequenced three whole Bigfoot nuclear genomes, helping to prove that the legendary creature exists in North America, and is a human relative that arose 13,000 years ago.
\nThe scientists hypothesize that the Bigfoot creature is a hybrid cross of modern Homo sapiens, with a novel primate species, giving it the species name\u00a0Homo sapiens cognatus.
\nAnd it sounds legit, with the study appearing in a scientific journal, and information like this:
\n\u201cClearly non-human hair (morphologically), washed thoroughly as is accepted procedure in forensic science to remove contaminates by two laboratories with two techniques, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4886,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions\/4886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}