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Multiple formal DNA surveys of hair and tissue claimed to be from Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti have produced matches to known species—bears, canids, deer, raccoon, human and others—rather than an unknown ho...
The most scrutinized physical traces attributed to Bigfoot are hair samples, plaster casts of large footprints, and a few videos/photographs — with hair DNA tests repeatedly tracing samples to known a...
DNA tests done on alleged Bigfoot (and related “yeti”) samples have mostly identified the material as known animals—dogs, bears, horses, deer, human contamination and other common mammals—rather than ...
The scientific record to date contains no confirmed Bigfoot (or other “relict hominoid”) DNA: systematic peer‑reviewed studies that analyzed dozens of hair samples identified only known species or hum...
Two systematic mitochondrial-DNA (mtDNA) surveys of alleged Bigfoot/yeti hairs dominate the literature: Bryan Sykes’ Oxford–Lausanne team sequenced the 12S mitochondrial rRNA from 30 hairs and identif...
No independent, reliably peer‑reviewed replication of alleged Bigfoot mtDNA claims exists in mainstream scientific literature. A systematic Oxford/Lausanne 12S mitochondrial survey identified 30 “anom...
Mitochondrial 12S RNA sequencing has identified known species in the majority of hair samples submitted as “Bigfoot” or other anomalous primates: of 57 submitted hairs, DNA was recovered from 30 and e...
There is no clear, peer‑reviewed record in the provided reporting of new genomic studies after 2020 that have systematically reanalyzed archived “Bigfoot” hair or tissue samples using modern whole‑gen...
Multiple systematic studies of alleged Bigfoot/Yeti samples have found mitochondrial (maternal-line) sequences that match modern humans or known animals, and in peer-reviewed work none of the mitochon...
Reputable scientists and institutions have occasionally tested alleged Bigfoot physical evidence—most notably genetic analyses of hair samples and forensic examinations of footprints—but mainstream co...