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Trent University Wildlife Forensic DNA Laboratory

A Canadian forensic genetics laboratory that confirmed hair samples collected in Fiordland in 2001-02 as moose DNA in 2005.

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  • Trent University Wildlife Forensic DNA Laboratory is frequently compared to Bryan Sykes — Both applied forensic hair-DNA identification to a disputed cryptid-survival claim, Sykes's 2014 global survey for the Yeti, Bigfoot, and Almas, and Trent University's 2005 test for the Fiordland moose.

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  • New Zealand Fiordland Mooseintroduced 1910, last confirmed 2005

    Trent University Wildlife Forensic DNA Laboratory was used to analyse New Zealand Fiordland Moose — The lab's 2005 DNA testing confirmed hair samples collected in 2001-02 as moose, the most recent physical evidence of the population's survival.

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