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"Bigfoot" was rubber gorilla costume

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - No wonder Bigfoot failed a DNA test. Researchers said on Tuesday the hairy heap claimed by two men to be the corpse of the mythical half-ape, half-human creature was actually a full-body rubber gorilla costume. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/scienceNews?a=wp1enr"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/scienceNews?i=wp1enr" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/scienceNews?a=FDeHJK"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/scienceNews?i=FDeHJK" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/scienceNews?a=ttcEQk"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/scienceNews?i=ttcEQk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/scienceNews?a=mYRBkk"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/scienceNews?i=mYRBkk" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/369735395" height="1" width="1"/>