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| Finally Oxford University has something to brag about; Bigfoot genetic research |
We are proud to state that nosotros broke this tidings first--after Jeff Meldrum announced it at the Richland, WA Bigfoot Conference. Technically, that makes us mo to interruption the news, but due to budget constraints nosotros fired our fact-checker (sorry Joe), hence nosotros are going with the kickoff version. You read it hither first! medico Bryan Sykes of Oxford University is conducting a genetic enquiry on Sasquatch Samples.
On May 16th nosotros mentioned
Dr. Meldrum's Participation, May 17th nosotros posted a Video of Meldrum talking nigh his
initial coming together with Bryan Sykes, as well as finally nosotros broke the official tidings to the basis on how to ship
Bigfoot samples to Oxford University before the mainstream media did.
Some would debate it is difficult to brag nigh scooping mainstream media, when Bigfoot tidings is your niche, but nosotros truly observe it quite easy.
Speaking of mainstream media, nosotros take away hold collected articles from across the globe inwards a unmarried place, inwards chronological order (oldest to latest) So you lot tin privy grab upwardly with what the residuum of the basis knows nigh the Oxford University/Bryan Sykes Bigfoot Genetic Research. You'll notice nosotros left out NPR, HuffPost as well as a few others, that is because they exactly copied as well as pasted from Reuters News. But residuum assured this tidings is EVERYWHERE. By the way, our terminated fact-checker called inwards to tell us C|Net gets it wrong; Dr.Sykes is only interested inwards Hominid (Bigfoot) samples, he is non interested inwards Nessie. Great grab Joe, your even hence fired.
http://www.wired.co.uk Oxford University to probe 'yeti' DNA By Duncan Geere May 22, 2012
Supposed yeti remains are beingness lay nether the microscope inwards a collaboration betwixt Oxford University as well as the Lausanne Museum of Zoology.
The Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project has been created to essay as well as entice people as well as institutions with collections of cryptozoological stuff to submit it for analysis. Anyone with a sample of organic remains tin privy submit details of where as well as when it was collected, with other data.
Once a reasonable database has been collected, the squad volition select the most interesting samples (hair shafts are peculiarly desirable, apparently) as well as enquire the owners to submit them for rigorous genetic analysis. The results of these analyses volition live published inwards peer-reviewed journals.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 large issue of cultures around the basis take away hold variations of the yeti legend, including bigfoot, sasquatch, meh-teh, almasty, migoi as well as orang pendek. Bryan Sykes from Wolfson College, Oxford, told Wired.co.uk: "Theories every bit to their species identification vary from surviving collateral hominid species, such every bit Homo neanderthalensis or Homo floresiensis, to large primates similar Gigantopithecus widely thought to live extinct, to every bit yet unstudied primate species or local subspecies of dark as well as chocolate-brown bears."
He added: "Mainstream scientific discipline remains unconvinced past times these reports both through lack of testable evidence as well as the reach for fraudulent claims. However, recent advances inwards the techniques of genetic analysis of organic remains render a machinery for genus as well as species identification that is unbiased, unambiguous as well as impervious to falsification. It is possible that a scientific essay of these neglected specimens could tell us to a greater extent than nigh how Neanderthals as well as other early on hominids interacted as well as spread around the world."
If you've got a
yeti scalp inwards your shed, as well as you'd similar to submit it for verification, you lot tin privy observe out how to practice hence over on the
project's website.
http://news.discovery.com BIGFOOT AND YETI deoxyribonucleic acid STUDY GETS SERIOUS by Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor | Tue May 22, 2012 02:18 PM ET Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 telephone band is out for supposed Big Foot stuff hence academy scientists tin privy practice genetic testing.
THE GIST
- Scientists take away hold requested that cryptozoologists ship them stuff supposedly from cryptic species.
- They conception to behaviour genetic analysis of the material.
- The telephone band is a challenge to those who claim that scientific discipline only rejects such claims.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel university-backed projection aims to investigate cryptic species such every bit the yeti whose existence is unproven, through genetic testing.
Researchers from Oxford University as well as the Lausanne Museum of Zoology are asking anyone with a collection of cryptozoological stuff to submit descriptions of it. The researchers volition as well as then enquire for pilus as well as other samples for genetic identification.
"I'm challenging as well as inviting the cryptozoologists to come upwardly up with the evidence instead of complaining that scientific discipline is rejecting what they take away hold to say," said geneticist Bryan Sykes of the University of Oxford.
While Sykes doesn't await to observe enterprise evidence of a yeti or Bigfoot monster, he says he is keeping an opened upwardly heed as well as hopes to seat perchance xx of the suspect samples. Along the way, he'd live happy if he institute some unknown species. (Rumor or Reality: The Creatures of Cryptozoology)
"It would live wonderful if ane or to a greater extent than turned out to live species nosotros don't know about, maybe primates, maybe fifty-fifty collateral hominids," Sykes told LiveScience. Such hominids would include Neanderthals or Denosivans, a mysterious hominin species that lived inwards Siberia 40,000 years ago.
"That would live the optimal outcome," Sykes said.
The projection is called the Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project. It is beingness led past times Sykes as well as Michel Sartori of the zoology museum.
Origin of a Legend
The flush of a large hairy monster of the Himalayas stomped into pop civilisation inwards 1951, when British mountaineer Eric Shipton returned from a Mount Everest expedition with photographs of giant footprints inwards the snow.
The cryptic creature goes past times many names inwards many places: yeti or migoi inwards the Himalayas, Bigfoot or sasquatch inwards the U.S.A. as well as Canada, respectively; almasty inwards the Caucasus Mountains; orag pendek inwards Sumatra. (Infographic: Tracking Belief inwards Bigfoot)
And spell reports of such creatures take away hold abounded around the basis since then, at that spot is no existent proof they exist; the reports inevitably plough out to live of a civet, comport or other known beast.
Yeti hairs
Sykes doesn't desire to start receiving loads of skin, pilus as well as other samples haphazardly, hence he is asking people to ship detailed descriptions of their "yeti" samples.
Once he as well as his colleagues take away hold looked over the details — including physical descriptions of the sample (even photographs), its root as well as ideas nigh the probable species it belongs to — they volition ship a sampling kit for those that are deemed suitable for study.
"As an academic I take away hold for certain reservations nigh entering this field, but I intend using genetic analysis is alone objective; it can't live falsified," Sykes said. "So I don't take away hold to lay myself into the seat of either believing or disbelieving these creatures."
One theory nigh the yeti is that it belongs to pocket-size relic populations of other hominids, such every bit Neanderthals or Denisovans. While Sykes said this thought is unlikely to live proven true, "if you lot don't look, you lot won't observe it."
The collection stage of the projection volition run through September, with genetic testing next that through November. After that, Sykes said, they volition write upwardly the results for publication inwards a peer-reviewed scientific journal; this would live the kickoff such publication of cryptozoology results, he said.
"Several things I've done inwards my career take away hold seemed impossible as well as stupid when contemplated, but take away hold impressive results," Sykes said. When he laid out to observe deoxyribonucleic acid from ancient human remains, for instance, he thought, "It's never going to work." It did, as well as he published the kickoff study of deoxyribonucleic acid from ancient human bones inwards the periodical Nature inwards 1989.
http://www.washingtonpost.com Wanted: Bigfoot pilus samples sought past times European scientists to reckon if mythical creature exists By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, May 23, 9:32 AM
LONDON — European researchers are planning to purpose novel techniques to analyze deoxyribonucleic acid that could aid fissure the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists.
In a projection announced this week, Oxford University as well as Lausanne Museum of Zoology scientists appealed to museums, scientists as well as Yeti aficionados to percentage pilus samples thought to live from the mythical ape-like creature.
New genetic tests volition live done on exactly a few strands of pilus as well as should live completed inside weeks. Even if the sample is judged to come upwardly from an unknown species, scientists should live able to tell how closely it is related to other species, including apes or humans.
Bryan Sykes of Oxford University said the grouping had already received many offers of samples to test, including blood, hair, as well as items supposedly chewed past times Bigfoot. Sykes as well as colleagues conception to sift through the samples for the adjacent few months before deciding which specimens to test. They volition as well as then give away their results inwards a peer-reviewed journal.
Other experts agreed recent advances made inwards deoxyribonucleic acid testing could theoretically solve the Bigfoot question.
“If the Yeti is existent as well as person has institute bits of their hair, you lot should live able to tell from the deoxyribonucleic acid inwards the pilus if this is truly a Yeti,” said Mark Thomas, a professor of evolutionary genetics at University College London. He is non connected to the Bigfoot project.
But Thomas was unsure how probable it was anyone powerfulness take away hold actual Yeti hairs. Some scientists theorize Yetis are either a distinct hominid species, or a mix betwixt adult man sapiens as well as Neanderthals or other species. There is already evidence of interbreeding betwixt adult man sapiens as well as Neanderthals.
“If Yetis take away hold survived for the in conclusion 30,000 years, they take away hold in all probability had a pretty wretched existence as well as are a pocket-size population vulnerable to extinction,” Thomas said. “It’s non every bit insane an thought every bit many powerfulness think, but the chances are pretty small.”
Sykes said he has ever been intrigued past times stories of Yeti sightings, but would rely on scientific discipline rather than such tales to bear witness if the stories are credible. “It’s non truly possible to fabricate deoxyribonucleic acid evidence,” he said.
He acknowledged that the chances of proving the existence of a novel Yeti species are low, but said that the study was even hence worthwhile. “If nosotros don’t look, we’ll never observe out,” he said.
Bigfoot is a legendary giant, hairy, ape-like brute that is variously known every bit Sasquatch, the Abominable Snowman, Yeti as well as other names. It supposedly lives inwards heavily forested or snowy mountains. Although most scientists don’t believe inwards the beast’s existence, decades of eyewitness reports, suggestive photos as well as stories take away hold kept the legend alive.
David Frayer, a professor of biological anthropology at Kansas University, told The Associated Press inwards an electronic mail that “No serious scientist (would) process Yeti every bit a worthy enquiry project.”
He said previous tests on supposed Yeti hairs take away hold already been done — “and they turned out to live from a bison.”
http://www.foxnews.comScientists Seek Big Genes of BigfootPublished May 22, 2012FoxNews.com Can scientific discipline unravel ane of life’s enduring mysteries?
Rumors of the hairy humanoid known variously every bit the yeti, bigfoot as well as sasquatch take away hold persisted for decades, despite footling difficult evidence beyond grainy photographs as well as plaster casts of giant footprints. Now scientists are hoping to brand to a greater extent than of a illustration for the creature -- with the aid of genetic testing, Reuters reported.
The Lausanne Museum of Zoology inwards Switzerland together with prestigious Oxford University said Tuesday, May 22, that they volition together purpose deoxyribonucleic acid testing to examine organic remains that some claim belong to the beast.
'There take away hold been deoxyribonucleic acid tests done on alleged yetis but since as well as then the testing techniques take away hold improved a lot.'
- Bryan Sykes at Oxford's Wolfson College
"It's an expanse that whatsoever serious academic ventures into with a bargain of trepidation ... it's total of eccentric as well as downright misleading reports," Bryan Sykes at Oxford's Wolfson College told Reuters.
Lausanne has an archive of such organic stuff assembled past times researcher Bernard Heuvelmans, the tidings means reported. Heuvelmans sought the yeti for over 50 years until his decease inwards 2001.
"There take away hold been deoxyribonucleic acid tests done on alleged yetis as well as other such things but since as well as then the testing techniques, peculiarly on hair, take away hold improved a lot due to advances inwards forensic science," Sykes said.
Despite the lack of difficult evidence, Bigfoot believers are steadfast inwards their conviction that somewhere out at that spot lurks a giant hominoid that only has eluded all efforts to rail it down.
"I take away hold been immersed inwards Sasquatch enquiry for a issue of years, as well as I tin privy tell you lot inwards my heed a mount of evidence supports the existence of these creatures," Ken Gerhard, a San Antonio cryptozoologist who co-wrote "Monsters of Texas," of late told the Houston Chronicle.
Ogopogo: The world's mo best-known lake monster after Scotland's Nessie, captured of late on a grainy prison theater mobile telephone phone video.
Montauk Monster: Some speculated it was an escaped mutant. Others thought it was an alien. Or was it exactly a raccoon?
The Carolina Critter: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bizarre creature that washed ashore in conclusion calendar week inwards Folly Beach, S.C., sparked speculation of body of body of water monsters.
Gerhard, who too heads upwardly the Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization, said Texas has ane of the nation’s highest incidents of bigfoot reports, outranked only past times Washington, California, Oregon, Ohio as well as Florida.
Bigfoot striking the headlines before this calendar month when an Oregon fan discovered that the Texas Parks as well as Wildlife Association regulations would larn inwards legal for a hunter to kill the mythical creature.
Despite the fact that principal of staff Lt. David. Sinclair told FoxNews.com that he never mentioned bigfoot specifically, Texas police describe does seem clear; if Bigfoot is indigenous to Texas, it tin privy live killed there.
So is Bigfoot a Longhorn? Absolutely, said Brian Brown, media coordinator for the Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy.
“We’ve got hundreds of sightings going dorsum decades. I don’t intend we’d take away hold whatsoever occupation proving it’s indigenous. We intend they’re all over the region,” Brown told FoxNews.com.
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