I wish people would stop posting this thoroughly debunked "news item". The original paper describes a sloppy procedure in which field-contaminated samples were analyzed and unsurprisingly discovered traces of both human and animal DNA, and the results were published in a hastily created non-journal after all the real science journals refused to publish it. Details here:

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/14/16964023-bigfoot...