Bryan Sykes

It ran in a journal called De Novo that had published nothing else, and New York University anthropologist Todd DeSotel said on the Monster Talk podcast that a primate separated from us only 15,000 years ago is no new species, because that's us.

In 2014, a team led by the Oxford geneticist Brian Sykes published the results on 30 hair samples in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, and the North American ones came back as black bear, wolf, coyote or dog, cow, raccoon, porcupine, sheep, horse, deer, and human.

On August 19, 2005, Tom Biscarni went on Coast to Coast AM and said Bigfoot had been captured.

He'd been selling $14.95 webcam passes to his expedition.

Yeah, it's got some similar results in that sense in terms of the timeframe.

So yeah, so 2012, Professor Brian Sykes from Oxford University, well-respected professor of zoology, and also has developed a unique way of cleaning samples to ensure that, particularly with hair samples, you got rid of anything that might have been a kind of human contamination and just resulted in the hair, which you then literally kind of dice through, the hair cut through it, and then get the DNA from inside of the hair follicle.

He was one of the first people to sort of do that, and it's kind of a bit of a kind of leading approach to get rid of that contamination through loads of steps of, of cleaning, which, you know, sort of patented and everything now.

Um, but yeah, so he's a big guy in that.