- British scientists on the trail of the Yeti have found
some of the best evidence yet for the existence of the mythical Himalayan
creature - a sample of hair that has proved impossible to identify.
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- Genetic tests on the hair, which was gathered from a
tree in Bhutan, have failed to match its DNA to that of another animal.
The findings, which have surprised skeptical researchers, raise the strong
possibility that the sample belongs to an as yet undiscovered species.
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- In Bhutan, an expedition team was led by an 'official
Yeti-hunter' to a forest in the eastern part of the country, where he was
convinced that an animal was at large. He told us that he had found evidence
of the Yeti in the hollow of a cedar tree. Rob McCall, a zoologist who
was part of the expedition, said. Dr McCall's team removed strands of hair
from the tree and returned to Britain to have them analyzed.
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- Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at the Oxford
Institute of Molecular Medicine, one of the world's leading experts on
DNA analysis, who examined the hair, said: "We found some DNA in it,
but we don't know what it is. It's not a human, not a bear nor anything
else we have so far been able to identify. It's a mystery and I never thought
this would end in a mystery. We have never encountered DNA that we couldn't
recognise before."
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- The discovery was made by a team of scientists assembled
by Channel 4 for a documentary in the To the Ends of the Earth series.
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