I imagine the DNA testing would be to rule out all known primates. That said, the fact that they are having a private lab do the testing rather then passing the "bigfoot" along to a zoological reasearch facility for study suggests to me that this is probably just a marketing stunt. My suspicions are further bolstered by the fact that these two people are guides for bigfoot tours and run the website "shoppingforbigfoot.com" in addition to the searchingforbigfoot.

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BIGFOOT BODY FOUND - EVIDENCE AND DNA DETAILS TO BE PRESENTED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 15th FROM 12 N00N TO 1:00PM AT THE CABANA HOTEL-PALO ALTO IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA
A body that may very well be the body of the creature commonly known as "Bigfoot" has been found in the woods in northern Georgia.

DNA evidence and photo evidence of the creature will be
presented in a press conference on

Friday, August 15th from 12 Noon to 1:00pm at the Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto at 4290 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, California, 94306. The press conference will not be open to the public. It will only be open to credentialed members of the press.
Here are some of the vital statistics on the "Bigfoot" body:

*The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.


*It weighs over five hundred pounds.

*The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like.


*It is male.

*It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes.

*It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and
five toes on each foot.

*The feet are flat and similar to human feet.

*Its footprint is sixteen and three-quarters inches long and five
and three-quarters inches wide at
the heel.

*From the palm of the hand to the tip of the middle finger, its
hands are eleven and three-quarters inches
long and six and one-quarter inches wide.

*The creatures walk upright. (Several of them were sighted on the
same day that the body was found.)

*The teeth are more human-like than ape-like.

*DNA tests are currently being done and the current DNA and photo
evidence will be presented at the press
conference on Friday, August 15th.

The creature was found by Matthew Whitton (AKA Gary Parker) and Rick Dyer (residents of Georgia) in the woods in northern Georgia. (The exact location is being kept secret to protect the creatures.)

Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer will be flying in from Georgia to be at the press conference. Also present at the press conference will be Tom Biscardi, CEO of Searching for Bigfoot, Inc.

Whitton is a local, Georgia, police officer, who is currently on administrative leave after being wounded in the course of duty pursuing an alleged felon. Dyer is a former correctional officer. Whitton and Dyer are co-owners of bigfoottracker.com and Bigfoot Global LLC., a company that offers Bigfoot expeditions. Whitton and Dyer are working with Bigfoot hunter, Tom Biscardi, and Biscardi's Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., to present and conduct the scientific study of the evidence and information on this body.

A few weeks ago, Whitton and Dyer announced the finding of the body on the "Squatch Detective" radio show, an internet based radio show hosted by Steve Kulls. While on that show, the commentator asked Rick Dyer "Would you allow one of our people to come down and verify the body?" Dyer replied, "The only person we would allow to come down and verify the body was 'the real Bigfoot Hunter,' Tom Biscardi." The next day, the producer of the Squatch Detective show contacted Biscardi with pertinent information on how to contact Dyer and Whitton.

Extensive scientific studies will be done on the body by a team of scientists including a molecular biologist, an anthropologist, a paleontologist and other scientists over the next few months at an undisclosed location. The studies will be carefully documented and the findings will be released to the world, according to Biscardi.

Biscardi is known as "the real Bigfoot Hunter" because of his extensive investigations out in the field. He has been searching for Bigfoot since 1971 and over the past several years, he has been criss-crossing the United States and Canada tracking down the hottest leads on Bigfoot sightings.
Videography on the studies will be done under the supervision of Scott Davis, an independent producer and owner of TV Biz Productions in Phoenix, Arizona.

Currently, Tom Biscardi and his Searching for Bigfoot Team, in conjunction with Bigfoot Global LLC., are preparing to capture another of these creatures alive. That expedition will start very soon. The dates and the locations are being kept confidential.

The body that is currently being studied is being referred to as the "RICKMAT" creature, a name derived from the names of Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton.

Last year, a film that Biscardi produced about his investigations, called "Bigfoot Lives," won first place in the Documentary category at the Pocono Mountains Film Festival. Biscardi also hosts a Bigfoot oriented internet radio show that can be heard on Wednesday nights from 7:00pm to 8:00pm PDT at www.bigfootliveradioshow.com. The show is heard in over thirty countries.

http://searchingforbigfoot.com/










This reminds me of that group from a year or two ago that promised to show evidence that a man had given birth (or was it that contact had been made with aliens?)...Bullshit if you ask me

my fiance thinks it's a hoax but i don't see how a cop and a correctional officer can make something like that up..? wouldn't they lose their jobs?

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Originally posted by gummybear my fiance thinks it's a hoax but i don't see how a cop and a correctional officer can make something like that up..? wouldn't they lose their jobs?

Cop and former correctional officer. And I don't see what have they done that would grant them to lose their jobs?? Either they think they found big foot and they're investigating or they're pulling some marketing stunt...doesn't seem like a reason for dismissal to me.

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Bigfoot found in Georgia! Proof or hoax?
Posted: August 15, 2008, 5:08 PM by Karen Hawthorne
World, News

UPDATE: I wanted to see the Bigfoot body just as much as everybody else, but the two Georgia Bigfoot hunters didn't impress reporters at their news conference today in California where they had promised to reveal the evidence.

It's all very hush-hush: They didn’t produce a body. They said that the body is in a hidden location. They won’t say where they found the creature and saw others. They won’t let anyone but their own hand-picked scientists examine the body, and none were present on Friday. Hmmm, interesting.

A second round of DNA testing on the remains of a 7-foot-7, 500 pound man-ape they allege to have stumbled upon while hiking in North Georgia is still being completed, they said.

Of three samples in a preliminary DNA test, one came back inconclusive, one contained traces of human DNA and one had traces of opossum DNA — probably from something the creature ate, they said.

Best quote out of this may be: “This is becoming like an alien autopsy,” Jeffery Meldrum, a noted Bigfoot researcher and a professor of anthropology at Idaho State University, said. “It’s shenanigans.”

National Post

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Originally posted by Nick Cenik Bigfoot found in Georgia! Proof or hoax? Posted: August 15, 2008, 5:08 PM by Karen Hawthorne World, News UPDATE: They won’t let anyone but their own hand-picked scientists examine the body, and none were present on Friday.

I think they're going to lose all their credibility from this alone.

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Originally posted by Nick Cenik one had traces of opossum DNA — probably from something the creature ate, they said.

This could be a really stupid question...but how would traces of something you eat get into their DNA?

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Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* but how would traces of something you eat get into their DNA?

i'm no scientician but i'd assume when digesting the food (specifically live matter that has DNA) it may be possible to absorb certain nutrients from it while the animal meat is being broken down in such a way that the DNA itself is not broken down in the stomach acid and continues into the system, the same way blood absorbs alcohol, sugar etc from what we consume.

either that or they took the sample from somewhere like the oesophagus or stomach tract in which case they could only expect a carnivore to hold random DNA samples from what it ate.

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Originally posted by chico i'm no scientician but i'd assume when digesting the food (specifically live matter that has DNA) it may be possible to absorb certain nutrients from it while the animal meat is being broken down in such a way that the DNA itself is not broken down in the stomach acid and continues into the system, the same way blood absorbs alcohol, sugar etc from what we consume. either that or they took the sample from somewhere like the oesophagus or stomach tract in which case they could only expect a carnivore to hold random DNA samples from what it ate.

You're right, you're no "scientician" (wtf is that?) because that was a load of crap. Lisa is right, what you eat doesn't change your DNA. Otherwise we'd have a shitload of cow/pig/chicken DNA in our DNA.

This whole report is hilarious.