A mysterious clump of hair found in the Yukon earlier this month turns out (surprise, surprise) to
NOT be Bigfoot hair. Instead, it's hair from a bison. The sample was analyzed by David Coltman, a geneticist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
This isn't the first time 'Bigfoot hair' has been analyzed and shown to be something other than fibers from a shedding Sasquatch. It's quite remarkable, if you stop to consider it, that despite being frequently sighted and
heard, all the Bigfoots out there have managed to avoid leaving a single physical sample of their presence (such as hair, skin, or bones) that can be verified by researchers. Although they do leave a lot of footprints. Skeptics would say that this is clear evidence that Bigfoot doesn't exist. But the true believers continue to insist that we simply haven't looked hard enough yet. (thanks to Gary and Kathy for forwarding me the link)
Comments
He's Mr. Six from the commercials!!!
:cheese:
"I think bigfeet, bigfoots what ever the pluaral is, must have powers that make them undectable."
Well, non-existance would certainly help with that. (You WERE kidding, right?)
Do you think you can find someone willing to wander the wilderness, scooping up every pile of animal poop he finds so it can be tested and identified? (see what kind of jobs you get when you drop out of school, kids?)
I just see it as reassuring that scientists are still bothering to test bigfoot hair at all. It's a victory for empiricism. As sure as they are that there is no bigfoot, they are still going to bother to apply the scientific method to the evidence and find out for sure, case-by-case. That's good science, friends.
"Do you think you can find someone willing to wander the wilderness, scooping up every pile of animal poop he finds so it can be tested and identified? (see what kind of jobs you get when you drop out of school, kids?)..."
Actually, there ARE people who do this more or less full-time. They're called field biologists, and most of them either have PhDs or are graduate students. Which is to say, they have studied long and hard to win the privilege of scooping up every pile of animal poop they find.
"i have just researched bigfoot and he is real"
Well, that's all the evidence *I* need.
Uh, would you care to explain to us how you "researched" Bigfoot from India? I assume this involved a lot of Wikipedia and other websites. Sorry, but I wouldn't call that "research."