This just in from Ronny. Umm. Sensational - sure. Breakthrough if true - or just a way to get eyes on a new series, book, tour?
Is "...wait a few months" a red flag? Like when someone claimed to have the original PGF with a baby bigfoot in some deleted scene and we've never heard anything since?
"Wait a few months...." I had a PC like that once. Really struggled to run editing software.
She is a scientist and she is in the field. Thats how she found Chimp DNA in the first place.
Right now she is in your state taking a bunch more DNA samples. You can laugh all you like? If a reality TV show allows a real scientist to be in the field applying science to the myth of Bigfoot? 🤷♂️
What do we have to lose? I would prefer this to Bobo dressing up as a woman to attract Bigfoot. Or howling into the night. Or wood knocking. Or blurry photos.
Dr. Mireya Mayor is a real primatologist, who has discovered real primates, and she has the field experience to get to the bottom of this IF anyone can.
Part 1 : we can grizzly, etc because we have type sample of grizzly. We have something to match to.
Part 2 : we don't know what bigfoot is. It is near impossible to tell "near human" from "degraded human" reliably with DNA.
I think the best we could do with environmental DNA is to say that there is a source of unknown DNA that is consistent making environmental degradation less likely because of consistency across samples.