Yeti DNA sequenced

[Doubting Thomas]

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/gen...-tech.html

The Himalaya's mysterious Abominable Snowman might harbor an even deeper mystery, according to an Oxford University geneticist who says he has sequenced the mythic beast's DNA and proved its existence.

For centuries, native people in the snow-peaked Himalaya Mountains have described an elusive apelike animal that roams the range, and which they call the yeti.

Bryan Sykes, a professor of genetics at Oxford, sequenced DNA taken from two unidentified animals killed in Himalaya ranges of India and Bhutan in recent decades.

The small samples - including a single hair found a decade ago, and the jawbone of a mummified animal discovered in the 1970s by a hunter - were compared to a database of thousands of known animals, and the results were intriguing.

The samples suggest, according to Sykes, that the animal many people have reported seeing may be an unknown species of bear, related to an extinct polar bear.

[Anomalocaris]

I was half hoping for a perfect match between Yeti and that other unevolved groupings of semi-hominds consisting of Wooters, GC, Drich and SW.

[Minimalist]

Yeah - the Bigfoot crowd had a similar announcement a while back.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/...-identity/


Turned out to be bullshit...as expected.

So what is the verdict?

“Alas, I met my geneticist friend this past week and I asked about the Bigfoot DNA. It was, he told me, a mix of opossum and other species. No find of the century,”