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Good news: Bigfoot is part human
The release and alleged study by Melba S. Ketchum also suggests such cryptids had sex with modern human females that resulted in hairy hominin hybrids, but the scientific community is dubious about her claim…
For her study, Ketchum obtained three “whole nuclear genomes from purported Sasquatch samples. The genome sequencing shows that Sasquatch mtDNA is identical to modern Homo sapiens, but Sasquatch nuDNA is a novel, unknown hominin related to Homo sapiens and other primate species.” (Mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA, is the DNA that resides in the cell’s energy-producing structures, and is typically passed down from mothers, while nuclear DNA, nuDNA, resides in the cells’ nuclei and is passed down from both parents to offspring.)
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I’m pretty sure that he’s 100% human.
HitNRun on November 27, 2012 at 10:20 PM
This might be true…He does look like my Uncle Harry.
rich801 on November 27, 2012 at 10:23 PM
Part human, part hoax.
Ars Moriendi on November 27, 2012 at 10:23 PM
But they never have.
Shy Guy on November 27, 2012 at 10:50 PM
So where are they? You need a decent sized population to maintain reproduction.
Mimzey on November 27, 2012 at 10:57 PM
Too bad my workaholic daughter doesn’t like hairy guys. I want grandchildren, dammit!
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on November 27, 2012 at 11:29 PM
All these years and no roadkill, no dead babies or adults. I cannot believe that History, TLC, etc still have shows that apparently people watch.
arnold ziffel on November 27, 2012 at 11:50 PM
Same thing with the ghost hunter shows. How long have they been on and they still haven’t found a single ghost.
Ars Moriendi on November 27, 2012 at 11:55 PM
I, for one, am 100% o board with the idea that hominid animals impregnated women somewhere in our past. How else do you explain Helen Thomas?
Warner Todd Huston on November 28, 2012 at 12:03 AM
Soooo… it wasn’t O.J.?
Ugly on November 28, 2012 at 2:10 AM
So does this mean he has to be covered by 0bamacare?
CurtZHP on November 28, 2012 at 6:18 AM
Obama’s 2016 Presidential platform:
1) Tax the Sasquatch
2) Bigfoot “marriage equality”
3) Path to citizenship for Harry Henderson
Glenn Jericho on November 28, 2012 at 8:06 AM
Or, it could mean that the DNA they found was from a Human pretending to be a Big Foot simply for the thrill of fooling all the foolish big-foot believers.
Lawrence on November 28, 2012 at 8:48 AM
I guess all you have to do anymore is put on a nametag that says “science”..or “Investigator”..or “Educator” and people will lose their ability to think for themselves.
Anyone who has ever gone camping, even for a day, will notice that you beat paths and trails in a short time. To believe that there can be a population of very large creatures in numbers large enough to sustain a population, yet leave no sign of their presence, is beyond belief imo.
Where are the bodies of the dead? They bury their dead?..so now they have tools also?..where are the discarded tools? Where are the inevitable “crazy” ones who just wander off on their own, and show up at WalMart? Any casual look around after an OWS get together will turn up a lot of crap. Wheres the crap?
Mimzey on November 28, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Okay, now that we know that, can we move on to more important mysteries like cattle mutilations and possum squashings?
The Rogue Tomato on November 28, 2012 at 9:20 AM