Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the alleged "Bigfoot" finders, have held their announced Palo Alto news conference on Saturday, and presented "evidence" of their alleged find, with the help of another infamous Bigfoot hunter, Tom Biscardi.

However, their so-called evidence of the 500-plus-pound dead biped, which they claim they found while hiking, is less than satisfying. After all, uncertainty is what keeps hoaxes alive. The alleged half-ape, half-human, which is 7 feet and 7 inches tall, with reddish hair, black-gray eyes and teeth similar to a human's, looked more like a waterlogged costume that's been stuffed into a freezer, according to Jeff Meldrum, an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University.

The three men offered two grainy images, of the above-mentioned body, as well as an e-mail from a University of Minnesota entomologist describing the results of DNA testing, which revealed that one of the samples contained human DNA, the other was inconclusive due to technical problems and a third sample had possum DNA.

There were serious people too at the Palo Alto news conference. One of them was clad in a Chewbacca costume, holding a sign which read "We hide for a reason."

Tom Biscardi, who allegedly holds the body, claims that he will assemble a team of scientists to perform a necropsy, whose results will be shared in the interest of understanding and protecting the creatures.