According to this scientist, there may very well be live specimens of what locals believe to be Yeti, abominable snowmen or some kind of primate. However, the locals are mistaken about one thing: it’s a bear.
Apparently the DNA of two separate hair samples are similar, and they are linked very closely to a species of polar bear that went extinct 40,000 years ago. The hair samples were found in widely separated areas, one as recently as a decade ago.
I’m going out on a limb here and predict that both hair samples were preserved from around that same 40,000 years ago, due to the cold, and that there are no longer any living specimens of this bear.
Anyway, read the article, it’s interesting and there’s more to it than I can quote here.
Roddy
He’s not actually hypothesizing that the hair samples are 40k years old, but that they are samples from modern creatures who descended from those Orks, I mean, bears, in a competing line with modern Himalayan bears.
Actually, what it suggests is contamination in your laboratory.
No he isn’t. He’s saying that the DNA sequences he tested matched that of a fossil polar bear. That doesn’t mean they wouldn’t also match a grizzly bear, or a modern polar bear, or some other creature.
