Bigfoot truthers may have experienced a setback this week as new DNA analysis of the beast's hair proved the sample actually belonged to bears, horses and a porcupine.

According to USA Today, researchers analyzed 30 separate hairs believed to be taken from a Bigfoot creature. The researchers also tested samples from a supposed arctic Yeti, which proved to be from a normal animal as well.

The team of researchers published a study in the journal Proceedings of Royal Academy B.

"I cannot say that the sasquatch or related animal does not exist," study co-author Michel Sartori, an entomologist at the Museum of Zoology in Lausanne, Switzerland, told USA Today. "But at the moment I have no evidence of the existence of these creatures."

The samples believed to belong to the Yeti were actually a DNA match to a polar bear bone found in 2004 that dates back 100,000 years. While they found no evidence that the Yeti had any primate DNA traces, they did suggest the beast could be a mix of a polar and brown bear.

"I don't think this finishes the Bigfoot myth at all," study co-author Bryan Sykes, a geneticist at Oxford, told NBC News. "What it does do is show that there is a way for Bigfoot enthusiasts to go back out into the forest and get the real thing."

The samples came from people who have made it their mission to prove the Bigfoot's existence. While cryptozoology may be considered "fringe science," stories of the Bigfoot and Yeti have caught the public's attention and these study authors. Sykes is writing a book on the ancient polar bear bone and is organizing an expedition to the Himalayas to hopefully find the creature alive.

"That's the next logical step," he told NBC News. "We need a live 'Yeti.'"