Results from tests on genetic material from alleged remains of Bigfoot, made public at a news conference in Palo Alto held after the claimed discovery swept the Internet, failed to prove the existence of the mythical half-ape and half-human creature. The story was fueled by a photograph of a hairy heap, bearing a close resemblance to a shaggy full-body gorilla costume, stuffed into a container resembling a refrigerator. One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96 percent from an opossum, said Curt Nelson, a scientist at the University of Minnesota who performed the analysis.
( A version of this article appeared in print on August 16, 2008, on page A15 of the New York edition. )
Como era de se esperar, o resultado dos testes no material genético, supostamente retirado de uma carcaça de sasquatch/bigfoot encontrada na Geórgia e enfiada numa arca frigorifica, não prova a existência do mítico primata. Os testes, tornados públicos numa conferência de imprensa no Hotel Cabana em Palo Alto, Califórnia, foram decepcionantes. Das amostras de DNA analisadas, uma corresponde a um ser humano, e 96% de outra a um gambá opossum, declarou lacónico o geneticista Curt Nelson da Universidade de Minnesota. Por enquanto o bigfoot continua um mito...
