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Both literally and figuratively, monsters don't come much bigger than Bigfoot.

With new DNA evidence collected by the Travel Channel's Expedition Bigfoot team, offering an only perspective on the creature's existence.

While this evidence might not confirm that the creature exists, definitely, the data shows that evidence of an unexpected species of primate appeared in the United States, an area in which it would be incredibly unlikely to appear.

In this regard, it's possible that there are other species of primates that have existed in the US without human discovery, which could land credence to the idea that a massive Bigfoot could be out in the wild, existing undetected.

Perpressed release, during filming deep in the wilderness of Kentucky's Appalachian Highlands, EDNA collected from soil under a massive tree structure found by Dr. Mayor and Leblanc produced surprising and exciting results.

Environmental DNA, EDNA, is the genetic material naturally left behind by animals in the environment.

Scientific analysis of these samples helps generate a snapshot of any living creatures. This revolutionary new tool is increasingly used to confirm the presence of elusive animals.

This scientific expedition may have finally taken one of the world's greatest mysteries out of the pages of legend and lore and into reality, Dr. Mayor shared an statement.

Miroslava Muzia Ramos, project manager at the UCLA California Environmental DNA program, has analyzed the EDNA sample from the tree structure, following our her observations.

We received soil samples from your team and took a few months to get them processed. What we're looking at are the unique organisms that we were able to identify.

Our software does what's known as Metabar coating, so I'll match up all the DNA sequences that we were able to detect and tried across-reference them with the thousands of genomes that have been published and it's pretty common that when we're looking at environmental DNA samples, we detect humans, because there's going to be human traces almost everywhere.

But what I found very interesting was that yes, we have detected human DNA in these areas, but we're still seeing different primate DNA.

There wasn't just one human primate, there are several different primates, some sort of primate relative that exists in the data.

Pan-Troglidite is a species of chimpanzee which you would not see in the areas you're at. It's a real head scratcher.

It's important to note that the higher the detection, the more confidence we can say that whatever organism, whatever taxonomy we're looking at, was apparent in the area.

And in this case, we're looking at the pangenus, or the chimpanzee genus. There's 3,000 reads.

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