After all the publicity surrounding the elusive Bigfoot, a DNA test will be carried out on the cast of a giant footprint found in the forest here to determine its existence once and for all. Local paranormal investigator Syed Abdullah Al-Attas the host of Seekers, said he hoped the print of a left foot would provide some clues about Bigfoot. Seekers is a local programme on paranormal activities, aired over ntv7. “We did not find any droppings or fur. The DNA test for the footprint is our best shot at ascertaining its origins,” he said in a telephone interview. Syed Abdullah said the footprint, measuring 45.5cm by 36cm, was among several spotted by a team of paranormal investigators on Feb 21. The team comprised four investigators from Seekers, four from the US-based Destination Truth and three from Singapore Paranormal Investigators (SPI). SPI founder Dr Kenny Fong said they did not spot Bigfoot but stumbled on the prints during intermittent rain, just as the forest in Kg Lukut, Kota Tinggi was getting dark.

“We were shocked when we saw the prints. I thought to myself, 'this thing is real'. I was pretty sure the prints did not belong to any other animal,” he said, adding that all the team members were literally jumping for joy. According to him, there were about a dozen prints in the area, with the most distinct one having a print before and after it, spaced about 1.5m apart. A stretch of trees appeared to have been violently torn down “I would say the prints were fresh and less than an hour old then. The rain had made the particular portion of the ground soft and the shape was excellent,” he said.

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Lets hope they have some success, it would certainly shed some light on bigfoot.

WTF?

Since when do footprints contain DNA?

Even if they somehow do find DNA, they have nothing to compare it to. Unless they narrow it down to a human that has big big feet...

I have no idea what they think they are going to prove...

Yeah for real, these guys are a joke. They have already tested many hairs thought to have been from a bigfoot. Some were from known woodland animals, but there were others whose DNA did not match any known creature.

I would think that even if they did get a successful DNA sample it would be heavily contaminated, rendering the results wildly inconclusive at best.

I guess that about the only thing that they could possibly get out of it is the begining of a database of "unknown" dna that at some point could be linked to an actual bigfoot if one were to ever be caught and analyzed. It just seems odd in that there is a fee of several thousand dollars for each dna test; the last I heard it was over 5000 dollars to get a sample run...

It seems like a lot of money for something that is inconclusive at best.

lol

please even i know that you cannot test a bigfoots DNA because you have nothing even like it

A footprint might leave behind a sampling of the epidermis cells known as squamous cells, aka skin cells. These cells do contain a nucleus and therefore DNA. Whether or not we could get enough of a good sample for PCR gene typing is questionable. Although the very premise of PCR is based on making degraded or incomplete DNA sequencible.

While the process could not identify Bigfoot exclusively, it could rule out known species for the area and would also be quite likely to be able to identify or rule out the organism as hominid.

yeah, few weeks from we'll found out that some of the locals has very large diabetic feet walking around in the forest breaking down trees and bushes!

You said it before I did. It would be a good step forward to rule out any known animal. I mean hell, if the opposite happened and they found it to be a known animal, it would "debunk" the footprint.

They could always test the sample to other hominid DNA samples. Like from a few extict species. Like Gigantopithicis! (Spelling?) They think that this extinct species could be bigfoot or other hairy humanoids.
Or they could test it to other hairy humanoids! Skunkape, Momo, Yeti, Yowie. Maybe they can find a consistency. But then again, I suck with genetic stuff so my idea might not hold any water whatsoever.