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...A year ago, geneticists reported that RNA extracted from hair samples attributed to the Himalayan Yeti monster, a.k.a. "the Abominable Snowman," were actually most similar to the 40,000-year-old genetic signature of a now-extinct breed of polar bear. They suggested there might be a yet-to-be-discovered bear species lurking in the remote Himalayan snows.
Now a different research team says the hairs were just as likely to come from a type of brown bear that's common in the Himalayas.
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The scientists behind the original study, led by Oxford University's Bryan Sykes, are holding to their claims about the polar-bearish RNA. But Eliecer Gutierrez of the Smithsonian Institution and Ronald Pine, who's associated with the University of Kansas' Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, say there's too much genetic overlap in the RNA results to rule out the Himalayan brown bear.
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...In an email to NBC News, Sykes said he stood by last year's findings. He noted that the findings published in ZooKeys were "entirely statistical" in nature.
"The explanation by Gutierrez and Pine might be right, or it might not be," Sykes wrote. "The only way forward, as I have repeatedly said, is to find a living bear that matches the 12S RNA and study fresh material from it. Which involves getting off your butt, not an activity I usually associate with desk-bound molecular taxonomists." ...
My problem with this theory is that many of the reports of bigfoot/yeti/etc. reports the creature walking up on its hind legs, having hands, screaming, etc.
Maybe the Yeti is a large bipedal werebear?
originally posted by: MentorsRiddle
My problem with this theory is that many of the reports of bigfoot/yeti/etc. reports the creature walking up on its hind legs, having hands, screaming, etc.
This doesn't match up to any bear species living or extinct.
it sounds to me like they are not trying to prove the existence at all - but just denying it in other contexts.