This is just awesome stuff. It is true that I used to believe in Bigfoot and the Yeti, but then I looked in the mirror, slapped myself in the face, and started to think straight.
Anyways, I still followed a little bit of the bigfoot news for fun (the stuff is quite entertaining and interesting at times) when I heard about this study. The man behind it is a well known geneticist from Oxford University. He was determined to find out the answers and used the best equipment to find out if these things really existed. While he hasn't released his results for Bigfoot (I heard rumors it was "inconclusive") and will on the 20th, he just released the info on his Yeti samples.
Turns out they both matched 100% with a jaw of an ancient polar bear that could be up to 120,000 years old. During this time, polar bears and brown bears were diverging into separate species. This means that the unknown bear could be a rare link between the two species, a hybrid Brown/Polar Bear. This would explain a lot since apparently a 300 year old Tibetan script was found explaining that the beast was in fact a bear.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...polar-bear-and-still-roams-the-Himalayas.html
This also means that people were truly seeing something and everyone wasn't hoaxing everything.
I think this does show that even if it seems crazy, there can be some truth behind cryptozoology and it is worth digging into.
Here's to hoping they find the thylacine alive next.
Oh and flame away
Anyways, I still followed a little bit of the bigfoot news for fun (the stuff is quite entertaining and interesting at times) when I heard about this study. The man behind it is a well known geneticist from Oxford University. He was determined to find out the answers and used the best equipment to find out if these things really existed. While he hasn't released his results for Bigfoot (I heard rumors it was "inconclusive") and will on the 20th, he just released the info on his Yeti samples.
Turns out they both matched 100% with a jaw of an ancient polar bear that could be up to 120,000 years old. During this time, polar bears and brown bears were diverging into separate species. This means that the unknown bear could be a rare link between the two species, a hybrid Brown/Polar Bear. This would explain a lot since apparently a 300 year old Tibetan script was found explaining that the beast was in fact a bear.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...polar-bear-and-still-roams-the-Himalayas.html
This also means that people were truly seeing something and everyone wasn't hoaxing everything.
I think this does show that even if it seems crazy, there can be some truth behind cryptozoology and it is worth digging into.
Here's to hoping they find the thylacine alive next.

Oh and flame away
