By DAMIEN GAYLE

A Texas-based vet who claimed to have found DNA evidence of Bigfoot has finally published her findings – in a journal she set up.

Melba Ketchum hopes her ‘proof’ of the existence of the elusive hominids will be the first step towards recognising them as an undiscovered Native American group.

Although she first announced her claims in November, the publication of her full results was delayed because no peer-reviewed scientific journal would accept her study.

Instead, Dr Ketchum, from Nacogdoches, Texas, apparently finally self-published her findings on Saturday in the so-called DeNovo Scientific Journal.

She is selling the study – entitled Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes and Associated Studies – for $30 through the journal’s website.

Her rejection by mainstream journals and choice to self publish has, inevitably, raised eyebrows.

Dr Ketchum, a veterinarian-researcher claims to have discovered genetic proof which shows Bigfoot is in fact a human hybrid, descended from human women who mated with men of ‘an unknown hominin species.’

She has said that mitochondrial DNA in her samples, apparently obtained from leftover blueberry bagels eaten by a family of 10 bigfoot’s who live in Michigan, show clear evidence of genetic mixing.

‘Genetically, the Sasquatch are a human hybrid with unambiguously modern human maternal ancestry,’ she said in a statement published last November.

‘Government at all levels must recognize them as an indigenous people and immediately protect their human and Constitutional rights against those who would see in their physical and cultural differences a “license” to hunt, trap, or kill them.’

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