Controversy about the snowman's fur

The analysis of strange hair samples in Russia's Siberia shows that they belong to a higher animal than a monkey but not a human.

Dr. Igor Birtsev, one of Russia's many year-old hunters, discovered many feathers of an animal in Azasskaya Cave in Siberia. He suspected they belonged to the snowman (yeti).

Later, the Russian National Meteorological Institute, the Animal Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a university in Idaho, USA analyzed the DNA of feathers, News reported.

Valentin Sapunov, a professor at the Russian National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, said he and his colleagues used electron microscopy and molecular genealogy techniques to analyze hair samples. The analytical results show that they belong to a species of primates that science has never known. This species is more closely related to the monkey.

An illustration of snowman in Siberia, Russia. (Photo: ilstv.com)

Snow hunters claim that their DNA and humans differ only in 1% of genes.

However, according to the Siberian Times , Dr. Birtsev himself rejected the DNA analysis results of three research institutions.

"Did they compare my hair samples to other hair samples? I'm not sure. So I doubt Professor Valentin Sapunov's conclusion," he said.

Russian people constantly see many snow-shaped creatures in three locations in southwestern Siberia. Scientists once claimed that the ability of snowmen to live in Russia is up to 95%.

In the past few decades people in many countries have been rumored about the existence of humanoid creatures but with larger sizes. They live in the forest or in the wild and rarely appear in our view. For example, in 1951, an expedition went to Mount Everest in Nepal and returned with photos of the enormous footprints. People call them by many names - such as wild animals, snowmen, sasquatch, giants. Numerous people in the North American region and countries near the Himalayan mountains claim they have seen them.

'We think snowmen are a separate branch in human evolution. They live in harmony with nature, ' Burtsev said last year.