Just in case you missed the previous posts. Here is the most up to date information about the DNA tests.

Results from tests on genetic material from alleged remains of one of the mythical half-ape and half-human creatures, made public at a news conference on Friday held after the claimed discovery swept the Internet, failed to prove its existence.

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, according to Curt Nelson, a scientist at the University of Minnesota who performed the DNA analysis.

Good stuff.  Aparently after they pulled the opossum out of their ass in a simulated feltching session, they decided to pretend they found bigfoot.

Today is the press conference, it’ll happen at 12pm PDT which is 2PM CDT.   CNN has joined in the mix of reporting about the press conference as well check their piece out here.

The UK times has a funny article as well here.

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organisation, which believes in Bigfoot but not in Rickmat, said the deceased apeman displayed a remarkable likeness to the “Deluxe Sasquatch Costume” on sale on a Hallowe’en costume website for $449.

I agree the picture doesn’t really look like a real bigfoot.  All in all I almost feel like its an internet story that got picked up by bigger media and now is being touted as the real deal, there will be sketchy video and pictures never showing the whole thing and they won’t offer to actually show you the real thing.  I could be wrong….

More update: from fox’s site which I linked to previously:

An online Halloween-costume store, TheHorrorDome.com, based in Port Washington, N.Y., sells a full-sized Sasquatch suit that strongly resembles the thawed-out corpse, right down to the height.

“It definitely looks like our costume,” owner Jerry Parrino, who’s been keeping track of the Bigfoot body story, told FOXNews.com.

Two things stand out about Biscardi’s claims: first of all, that he’s not going to be presenting a body — and in fact claims to not even know where the body is — and secondly, that the DNA evidence he’s promising won’t be accompanied by a “chain of custody” that details where it came from and how it got to the lab.

In other words, all he may have is photos — which don’t appear to be too convincing.

So basically what we’ve all been thinking.  We could be wrong.. but…

Best comment I’ve come across here.

I bet I could make an awesome stew with that beast.
Posted by Daniel, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood,

That’s good stuff.

Update: Survey Says I called it.  If you read the top of the article you notice that I suggested they’d just show some blurry pictures or video and not really produce anything. Link to Fox article.

The much-anticipated Bigfoot press conference Friday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., revealed little more than two men — introduced by a self-styled Sasquatch seeker — claiming to possess the 7-foot “body” of a “bipedal creature” on ice in a secret location, awaiting an autopsy.

The men, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, were joined in the press conference by Tom Biscardi, host of an Bigfoot Internet radio show, who said the men approached him with their “find,” saying, “We want to talk to Tom Biscardi… They didn’t want to meet anyone else.”

Biscardi showed reporters two blurry photos, claiming one was the mouth of the “creature” while the other was another creature running through the Georgia woods. The men claimed they “stumbled on the creature,” but would not reveal more because they were concerned about it being an “endangered species.”

Biscardi reiterated his invitation to FOX News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly to come to Georgia and view the body, and plugged his Internet radio show.

He said there wouldn’t be anything more revealed Friday, but promised that he would “assemble” a group of scientists to examine the alleged corpse.

Whitton recounted how he and Dyer found the “body,” and said that more Bigfoots “paralleled” them as they were loading it onto a flatbed truck.

Yeah.  Hello hoax.

Another site, freep.com has info on the conference.

The Bigfoot news conference was a bust. Carried live on CNN and live blogged by websites across the globe, today’s news conference offered no real proof, no clear DNA evidence and nothing to make us believe the two Georgia guys who claim they found the body or the slick-talking Bigfoot “expert” who asserts it’s the real deal.

Whitton and Dyer looked and talked like a couple of Bubbas, wearing ballcaps. Whitton, who did most of the talking, became testy as reporters voiced skepticism over their credibility and wondered why they happened to be so well equipped with cameras for the impromptu “hike” that led to the discovery.

The expert the two Georgia men brought in, Tom Biscardi, was much slicker. He asserted this is the real deal. But he has been linked to previous Bigfoot false alarms and hoaxes. Biscardi said detailed “scientific” evidence on this “find” is still being examined and that there will be future revelations.

He did show and handed out some still photos, one which he said showed the tongue and cheek of the alleged creature, proving it was not a mask. And he had some stills of what he claimed showed of the supposed live critters following the Bubbas.

I love it.  I love how the big media jumped on this, cause that’s how I heard about it, they all jumped on going to the press conference and guess what, they didn’t learn anything new.

Here is one of those “I’ll believe it when I see it” things. Basically two guys claim to have found a carcas of a “bigfoot” in Georgia and plan to have a press conference to release DNA evidence this Friday. Seriously guys, why not do it today?

I heard about this on the news today on Fox News I believe but in searching their website and CNN’s and there is nothing. I found this on the Inquirer’s website. So what does that tell you? It tells me that the press is paying attention and possibly just mis-reporting other rumors or it could be that the Associated Press guys are just being cautious because they don’t have any confirmed informaiton. News Release from their site:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2008 BIGFOOT BODY FOUND DNA evidence and photo evidence to be presented at a PRESS CONFERENCE to be held on Date: Friday, August 15, 2008 Time: From 12Noon-1:00pm Place: Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto (A Crown Plaza Resort) 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94306 Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. Menlo Park, California Tom Biscardi, CEO BIGFOOT BODY FOUND - EVIDENCE AND DNA DETAILS TO BE PRESENTED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 15th FROM 12 N00N TO 1:00PM AT THE CABANA HOTEL-PALO ALTO IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA A body that may very well be the body of the creature commonly known as “Bigfoot” has been found in the woods in northern Georgia. DNA evidence and photo evidence of the creature will be presented in a press conference on Friday, August 15th from 12 Noon to 1:00pm at the Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto at 4290 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, California, 94306. The press conference will not be open to the public. It will only be open to credentialed members of the press. Here are some of the vital statistics on the “Bigfoot” body: *The creature is seven feet seven inches tall. *It weighs over five hundred pounds. *The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like. *It is male. *It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes. *It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot. *The feet are flat and similar to human feet. *Its footprint is sixteen and three-quarters inches long and five and three-quarters inches wide at the heel. *From the palm of the hand to the tip of the middle finger, its hands are eleven and three-quarters inches long and six and one-quarter inches wide. *The creatures walk upright. (Several of them were sighted on the same day that the body was found.) *The teeth are more human-like than ape-like. *DNA tests are currently being done and the current DNA and photo evidence will be presented at the press conference on Friday, August 15th.

Anyway if this is true it’s kinda cool, but seriously what are we going to do, track them down, hunt them? Put them in a zoo?

Update, here is the website of the guys who claim to have found bigfoot. Their website looks like a 5 year old put it together though.. what do you expect from the state that brought us Deliverance. Here is a more local news station reporting it CBS affiliate.

Update 9:28CDT: BAMN. Fox News has now posted the article. So either it is getting more legit or its just an internet rumor feeding frenzy.

Update: I’ve posted a running post for today with more information Go here.

MANISTIQUE, Michigan (AP) — Researchers will visit Michigan’s Upper Peninsula next month to search for evidence of the legendary creature known as “Bigfoot” or “Sasquatch.”

The expedition will focus on eastern Marquette County, said Matthew Moneymaker of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.

“We’ll be looking for evidence supporting a presence. … We hope to meet local people who might have seen a Sasquatch or heard of someone else who had an encounter,” Moneymaker told the Daily Press of Escanaba.

The legend of Bigfoot dates back centuries. But skeptics have challenged accounts of sightings, and practical jokers have staged hoaxes that have included grainy film footage of people dressed in costumes.

But Moneymaker said members of his organization have either glimpsed Bigfoot or gotten close enough to hear the creature in all but three of 30 expeditions in the United States and Canada.

The late Grover Krantz, a Washington State University professor who specialized in cryptozoology, the study of creatures that have not been proven to exist, believed Bigfoot was a “gigantopithecus,” a branch of primitive man believed to have existed 3 million years ago.