The legends about monsters like Yeti Bigfoot and others turned out to be descriptions of animals; A British geneticist said on Thursday that he had solved the mystery of the Yeti - after matching DNA from two animals that were supposed to be the mythical creature and turned out to be ancient varieties of the polar bear
A British geneticist said Thursday that he had solved the mystery of the Yeti - after matching DNA from two animals that were supposed to be the mythical creature and turned out to be ancient varieties of the polar bear.
"We discovered a genetic match between the two samples from the Himalayas and an ancient polar bear," says Brian Six, emeritus professor at the University of Oxford.
For hundreds of years, there have been rumors of a hairy monkey-like creature known as "Miguay" in the Himalayas, Bigfoot in North America, and Almasti in the Caucasus Mountains. These legends gained momentum when explorer Eric Shipton returned from a 1951 research trip to Everest and photographed large footprints in the snow.
Since then, eyewitness testimony has accumulated claiming that it was a human creature, but Skies believes that they simply saw a bear born from the hybridization of two different species of bears.
Last year he put out a worldwide request for samples from sites where a Yeti had been seen and he did receive 70 samples, of which 27 provided good DNA results. He compared them with known animal genomes stored in databases. The hair samples came from a hairy animal that was shot in the Ladakh region of Kashmir 40 years ago and the other in Bhutan about XNUMX years ago.
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In an interview with the BBC, Skies said that in the Himalayas, different types of bears and other animals have been discovered. However, the interesting samples were those whose genetic imprints are not related to brown bears or other modern bears but to ancient polar bears.
According to him, there was a 100% match between the samples from the Himalayas and those of the jawbone of a polar bear discovered in Savarvald in Norway, whose age is estimated at 40,000-120,000. Polar bears and brown bears are relatives and there are known cases of interbreeding in their overlapping habitats.
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Avi Cohen
The problem is that scientists (so-called) claim that there are strange creatures - Bigfoot, Sasquash, Yeti or the Loch Ness monster.
Instead of sensible people stopping this nonsense, they give it a scientific spin, without justification.
What you say sounds like the next thing: catch some company making crop circles. So here, the people are right!! There really is someone making crop circles!!
No one claims that those who saw Bigfoot saw nothing. But people say they play poker with him on Saturday...
Avi Cohen:
Every person who is not blind sees something, so it is clear that they saw something.
The question is how to interpret what you see and whoever decides that a bear walking around in the forest is some kind of huge, hairy person is not showing much wisdom.
miracles and wonders of his wording,
I suggest you respect other people a little more, but apparently I'm old fashioned and it's no longer in fashion...
In any case, did their "loveliness" as you put it, create from their imagination DNA of an ancient bear?
After all, they saw something, and now there is also physical proof that it is a living species...
Avi Cohen
They are not charlatans - they are lovable...
Wait a minute, so now it's not nonsense or people who are hallucinating? So now we just called all the people who witnessed this charlatans?