Latest discovery of the mysterious Yeti Snowman

New US scientists recently made a new assumption to "uncover the secret" of the Yeti Snowman.

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Decode the mysterious snowman monster 'Yeti' Himalaya

In the legend, the Yeti Snowman is known to be a giant creature, full of feathers, walking like humans. Many assumptions were made to explain this mysterious creature.

Research by Oxford University scientists previously showed that the Yeti Snowman is actually a big polar bear. But after studying the collected hair samples, American experts concluded that Yeti is a brown bear.

In 2013, Professor Bryan Sykes of Oxford University said two hairs (a reddish brown - obtained in the bamboo forest 10 years ago and a golden brown hair obtained from the Tibetan-Indian border 40 years ago) ) reveals to us about a strange bear that has never been identified, or it belongs to a hybrid bear between Polar bear and brown bear.

But the study of Eliécer Gutiérrez of the Institute of Biological and Ronald Institute's Smithsonian and Ronald Pine Institute of Natural History at Kansas University shows that the DNA of the hairs is a brown bear in the Himalayas.

Gutiérrez and Pine found that the genetic variation in the brown bear makes it difficult to determine with certainty. Because genetically, samples may come from one of two species (brown bear or polar bear), but because brown bears often live in the Himalayas, Gutiérrez and Pine think that is the basis for believing they are Himalayan brown bear often.

In the new study, Gutiérrez and Pine also examined the genetic sequence and analyzed the way that today's bears possess - including polar bears, brown bears or Eurasian bears.

According to experts, this finding helps them better understand the huge gap between the evolution of Asian subspecies. Gutiérrez concluded, " In fact, an overview of the genetic variation and the shape of the Asian brown bear population during the period has not yet been carried out. If it does, the study will certainly provide much." interesting results ".

New research is published in ZooKeys magazine.