The Bigfoot mystery has been exciting the minds of scientists for decades. What kind of humanoid creature, also known as the Yeti, lives in the Himalayan mountains? The new study refutes the findings of geneticists that Bigfoot is a distant relative of the polar bear.
New DNA analysis from hair samples has shown that the ancestor of the yeti is the modern polar bear and a rare species of another bear from the high mountain ranges. According to the results of the study, Bigfoot is not a primate that science does not know about, and not even a hybrid of a brown bear, as previously thought, but a subspecies of the Himalayan bear.
Researchers from the Universities of Copenhagen and Oxford have re-genetically analyzed the Bigfoot hair samples that were originally examined by Professor Brian Sykes, also from Oxford. It was he who announced last year that the Yeti is the result of crossing two species of bears.
In 1951, British climber Eric Shipton, who was climbing Everest, photographed the footprint of Bigfoot. Another climber Reinhold Messner, the first climber of Everest without oxygen, also said that he saw a humanoid creature in Tibet in 1986. And that's not counting the stories of local residents about their encounters with ape-like creatures.
Professor Sykes commented on the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, admitting the fallacy of his findings. He confirmed that the studied hair samples of the Himalayan Bigfoot were indeed not primates.
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