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I just got off the phone with Erik Vance, a freelancer covering the Bigfoot press conference in Palo Alto, Calif., for us. We'll be posting his story as soon as we can this afternoon, but here are the highlights:

-- The three men claiming they had found Bigfoot -- Matthew Whitton, Rick Dyer, and veteran Bigfoot tracker Tom Biscardi of Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. -- brought no physical evidence of the creature.

-- There were a few photos on display, one of some sort of primate jaw, and one of some kind of creature walking through the woods.

-- They brought an e-mail printout from Curtis Nelson, the University of Minnesota biologist testing three samples of the animal's DNA. According to Nelson, two were human, and the other was a combination and human and possum. Was that what this animal was eating before it died?

More to come.

Update: here's our full story.

 Image Credit: iStockphoto

12 Comments

1. 1. digitalsmithing 05:41 PM 8/15/08

   Thats funny, I just saw the photos CNN and it appears to be tounge sticking out of a teeth which look like shaved dentures. Also will someone check out how big the cooler is? I dont think an animal of this size would fit in there.

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2. 2. Mr. Henderson 05:50 PM 8/15/08

   Charlie at The Sope-Bocks blog has transcript excerpts and pictures from the press conference, along with excellent observations about the claims made by Whitton and Biscardi. Hoax or not, it's interesting reading.

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3. 3. thecommonmansopinion 06:00 PM 8/15/08

   At appears as though these men are willing to sacrifice their integrity for good, just for the sake of a few minutes of fame. Claiming to have found something of such historical importance only to end up with some lame story about "something happened to the body", makes a mockery of many reputable people who work very hard to do very thorough investigations with a great deal of integrity.
   You can thank these idiots for setting back the possibility of an intelligent discussion regarding possibly undiscovered primates about 2 decades. Nice work.

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4. 4. pacoverde 06:47 PM 8/15/08

   Does anyone actually have decent copies of the two photos released today?

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5. 5. MattinNH 07:00 PM 8/15/08

   I was driving down the road one day...
   Bigfoot ate a possum.

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6. 6. crusadenow 07:07 PM 8/15/08

   The object in the Cnn photo is a dead ringer for a commercially available Bigfoot costume. Two of the three DNA samples submitted were human, one was a combo of human and opossum. "Was this what the animal was eating?" What kind of numbskull are you? The only animals were the possum and the human(s) from which the DNA samples were taken. If you can't smell the hoax in this, I have a bridge to sell you. And a flying bicycle.

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7. 7. halt in reply to MattinNH 07:35 PM 8/15/08

   am i the only one who gets this comment?

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8. 8. halt in reply to MattinNH 07:39 PM 8/15/08

   I think I'm the only one who really gets this comment, lol

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9. 9. earthling3 09:05 PM 8/17/08

   I guarantee you that this is another of the revolving, incessant bigfoot hoaxes perpetrated by scheming, cunning, easy money grubbing sociopathic conguy swindlers. They will attract another crop of suckers for their forthcoming expeditions, conventions, lectures, CDs, videos, newsletters and books (of others and their own) via the public attention they attract in recruiting the publicity machine of mainstream TV, radio and print news media, scientists and science institutions to and at their news conferences at which they will trumpet their spectacular claims and proffered, equivocal and ambiguous, evidence -- this publicity event should provide them with another five to ten years of shelf life for this renewed controversy and its related products for sale. The leader of this latest hoax is none other than career bigfoot hoax guy Tom Biscardi, with a lot of the McCainesque-type leadership experience to lead (on). It is interesting that no disciplined academics or scientists ever come across any of these jumbo-sized bigfoot hominids and that it's alway bumbling, low-achiever, animal-clever, otherwise air heads who do. Caveate Emptore, Foos and Suckas!!! If I could just get my music played on radio and the media to show up and buzz it.

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10. 10. Mr Bob 07:42 PM 8/18/08

    DNA results are back---------------->"OMG........It's a HUMOSSUM" exclaimed Curtis Nelson

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12. 12. great9126 10:03 AM 2/18/09

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