Hasta La Gadget!

If you had bet me that there would someday be two shows about finding Bigfoot on TV at the same time, you would have won that bet soundly. But here we are, and Sasquatch is bigger and hairier than ever. Now I wish I were on that 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty show, because I’ve just found the beast.

Unfortunately, this “life-size” Bigfoot is only a bust, so that probably doesn’t count for the $10 million prize. This detailed replica of the elusive, yet non-existent creature was made by DougFX, and is crafted from rubber, polyurethane foam, fake fur and glass eyes – which I have on good authority is what actual Bigfeets are made from. And lollipops.

Actually, this replica is based on the 1967 Patterson/Gimlin film of a Bigfoot nicknamed “Patty”

This monstrous Bigfoot bust can be yours for the low low price of $1500(USD). I guess if I had the money to spare, I’d actually consider buying one, if only so I could have my own reality show.

Last November, a group of scientists claimed that they had discovered DNA evidence of the existence of the fabled Bigfoot. The scientists promised that they would be publishing a paper outlining their findings and if you’ve been wondering where exactly that paper is, that mystery is now solved. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the scientists had a difficult time finding a publication that would actually publish their findings.

According to Ars Technica, the researchers ended up having to purchase their own online journal to be able to publish their findings. You can download the research paper yourself if you feel like coughing up $30 for what apparently are rather questionable results. While the researchers claim that their DNA evidence proves the existence of Bigfoot, the results seemed off to Ars Technica.

Ars’ John Timmer has a background in biological research and looked over the results and came away feeling like the results have significant issues. He says that where the nuclear genome is concerned “the results are a mess.” He points out that sometimes the tests picked up human DNA and other times human DNA wasn’t found. He also notes that sometimes the tests failed altogether. He also points out test results that show patches of double and single stranded DNA intermixed. Timmer says all this suggests is that the researchers have are samples of modern human DNA intermingled with some other contaminant.

So yet again, Sasquatch continues to elude us.

[via Ars Technica]