Originally posted by Jedi_Master

Originally posted by Quest
If you had DNA from hair, or tissue samples... it would be better than cloning the thing, it would prove its existance.

No one has ever provided physical evidence on the DNA level. Not even people who claim to have fur, tracks, droppings, etc.

They haven't ??

paranormal.about.com...

www.bigfootencounters.com...

www.bfro.net...

The test's have been ran, and they are inconclusive...

Most of what I've read, it is of an unknown creature...

The existence of Dolly the Sheep, Copy Cat, and rumors of human clone pregnancies suggest that cloning is a relatively straightforward process. It's not. Most attempts fail. A report in Science magazine indicates that this is probably because the nucleus of the transferred adult cell fails to reprogram and behave like an embryonic nucleus.

The stress placed on both the egg cell and the introduced nucleus are enormous, leading to a high mortality rate in resulting cells. As the procedure currently cannot be automated, but has to be performed manually under a microscope, SCNT is very resource intensive.
The biochemistry involved in "activating" the recipient egg is far from understood.
Not all of the donor cell's genetic information is transferred. DNA of organelles (mostly mitochondria) is left behind, with the resulting cells retaining those structures which originally belonged to the egg.

But in cloning, the DNA of an "ordinary" adult cell -- whether it's a skin cell or a kidney cell - is essentially being forced to assume the powerful and versatile starter state normally found only in egg and sperm. That switching or transforming process, known as reprogramming, occurs when the adult cell nucleus is inserted into an egg whose own nucleus has been removed. There are special proteins in the egg cytoplasm that facilitate reprogramming. Most scientists believe cloning fails so frequently because this reprogramming doesn't work properly. Indeed, some scientists believe it never works properly, and that no cloned animal is completely normal.