That's VERY anecdotal.
Do you know how unimaginably rare it would be for a 7 foot tall species to be living in our wilderness and have never found 0 evidence? No one has caught one, the only footage is from a grainy video, no fur, no dna, no droppings, no footprints, no bones, no fossils, nothing?
Print evidence is bountiful. Meldrum, Bindernagel, Green and Krantz have all collected casts. There are no confirmed specimens to match recovered hair to, and recovering DNA from shed hairs is highly unlikely.
From the book, "Bigfoot: Encounters in New York & New England."
Dr Gerald Lowenstien from University of Cali on a hair found in Pike Peak Colorado. "I've tested these hairs for all the major groups of mammals that have large specimens - like deer, bears, and so forth, and it only reacts to the primates. And of the primates, it only reacts with hominids. And there are only five hominids: human, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and gibbon." Lowenstien believes that the hair belongs to a "large animal closely related to human and chimpanzee,".
Profesor Brian Sykes of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University on the result of a hair found at the base of a cedar tree. "It's certainly mysterious...there was a plump follicle there. We normally wouldn't have any difficulty at all. It had all the hallmarks of good material...We found some DNA in it, but we don't know what it is." "It's not a human. It's not a bear. It's not anything else that we've so far been able to identify - a mystery. We've never encountered any data that we couldn't recognize before..."
I also posted a link earlier ITT (post #161) where samples were analyzed and came back unidentifiable.
As for fossils, Sasquatch may already be represented in the record with Giganto.
