Sasquatch “hair” actually from a Bison

July 28, 2005 D. H. McKee

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It’s a bison.
A hair sample that some claimed belonged to a sasquatch in the Yukon is actually the fur of the large mammal.
David Coltman, an University of Alberta geneticist who did a DNA test on a hair sample, confirmed that it was 100-per-cent bison.
He said the DNA sample was not fresh.
During the procedure, follicles were separated from about 10 hairs and a standard DNA extraction was conducted. Copies of the genes were created and a DNA sequence was developed, which matched the genetic code of bison.
The hair sample was taken from a bush near Teslin, Yukon, near the B.C. border earlier this month where several people said they had seen and heard a large, hairy creature crash through their backyard. They also claim that there was also an unusally large footprint at the site.
If the DNA had come out as an unknown sequence, perhaps of a sasquatch, Dr. Coltman said he would try to find the most closely related species on the evolutionary tree to match it.
The Globe and Mail: Bison isn’t sasquatch

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