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Some people in Palo Alto are taking advantage of a slow news day.

Two guys from Georgia, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, claimed to have found the remains of a Bigfoot. And the press conference is in, um, Palo Alto? I don’t claim to know why, other than the fact that a Bigfoot “expert” in Redwood City, Tom Biscardi, is helping them out.

From the San Bernardino Sun:

“Well-known Bigfoot hunter, Tom Biscardi, a Redwood City man who did the documentary “Bigfoot Lives,” was contacted by Whitton and Dyer to help them unveil the animal’s carcass and – of course – profit from it. The trio are having a news conference today in Palo Alto to unveil the photos of the carcass and share the DNA evidence results that was gathered from a piece of “tissue, hair, blood, the whole nine yards,” according to Biscardi, who had a Bay Area scientist and lab do the work-up.

They’ve also promised Fox News to let them film the frozen body next week.”

High-school level critical thinking skills would have shot this hoax down. And this was on CNN?!

This would not have happened last week, what with the John Edwards and the Olympics and the Georgia/Russia issues making it a “fast-news day.”

Also smelling a coordinated cryptozoology marketing blitz, what with the answers to the goat-sucker and the Montauk monster’s mysteries still, erm, on the loose.

UPDATE: Seems as though this press conference revealed a big fat nothing.

UPDATE 2: Hooray, it’s a rubber suit. Now back to your normal Bigfoot-less lives.