Further Tests On Yeti Hair Produce Different Results Again

If you were planning a trip to the Himalayas to hunt for the unknown bear species that was recently believed to be the source of Yeti sightings, call your travel agent for a refund. It looks like those samples may have been identified and it's not good for your reality show.

Remember the big controversial DNA study last year of hair samples thought to be from yetis, bigfoots and other crytids? That study, lead by Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes, identified all the samples but two that came from the Himalayas. Further study matched the DNA of those samples with a 40,000-year-old polar bear fossil (Palaeolithic polar bear, Ursus maritimus). From that, they concluded a previously unknown hybrid bear species inhabits the area and is probably the real Yeti.

That conclusion was soon challenged by Ceiridwen Edwards and Ross Barnett, whose analysis determined that the DNA matched a present day polar bear and the mis-identification could have been the result of a deterioration of the sample.

Polar bear

Confused yet? Maybe I should say "confused Yeti" because the story doesn't end there. According to a new report in the journal Zookeys, Eli'ecer E. Guti'errez, a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, and Ronald H. Pine, from the Biodiversity Institute " trbidi="on">
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