New Delhi:
The Himalaya’s mysterious Snowman commonly known as Yeti is a deeper mystery, according to the scientists who had sequenced the epic animal’s DNA and proved its existence. Is yeti really present between us or it is just another superstition, come know with News Nation in a special report.
For centuries, native people in the Himalaya Mountains have described an elusive apelike animal that roams and which they call the yeti.
Stories of the Yeti vary in detail but many of them suggest a creature with an apelike body and a human-like face. Nepalese Sherpas have described the Yeti as having long, reddish-brown hair all over its body.
Even superstitions also say that sighting the creature can bring ill fortune, illness, or death.
Hearing all the stories scientists sequenced DNA taken from two unidentified animals killed in Himalaya ranges of India and Bhutan.
The small samples including a single hair found a decade ago, and the jawbone of a mummified animal discovered in the 1970s by a hunter— were compared to a database of thousands of known animals, and the results were intriguing.
The samples suggest, that the animal many people have reported seeing may be an unknown species of bear, related to an extinct polar bear.
“This is a species that hasn’t been recorded for 40,000 years. Now, we know one of these was walking around ten years ago. And what’s interesting is that we have found this type of animal at both ends of the Himalayas. If one were to go back, there would be others still there,” researchers said.
Researchers believes the animal could be a hybrid descended from two species of bear, an extinct polar bear and a closely related brown bear.
On accounts of hunters, mountaineers and others who claim to have seen a yeti, may have come face to face with an unknown bear that acts strangely.
The fact that the hunters, researchers who had great experience of bears, thought this one was in some way unusual and was frightened of it, makes us wonder if this species of bear might behave differently. Maybe it is more aggressive, more dangerous or is more bipedal than other bears.
Whatever it may be, scientists are still trying to solve the mystery of yeti.
