This report had already popped up on the usual feeds, but I was
startled to find it up front and center on the main news feed of Google. This surely means that all the publicity over the past year
is now lowering media barriers to these stories.
Rather importantly though, this is a major DNA disclosure. We have
had the equivalent in North America but done under the radar by
nervous experts. It is nice to know that some folks have recalled
that they are scientists.
The results are exceptional and triple confirmed. You can not get
any better than that.
We clearly have unique DNA that is not human but close enough to
assure us that we are dealing with a close relative. I expect to
see other results already obtained in North America to be released
now for direct comparison.
As I posted a couple of years back, the momentum behind the emergence
of the Sasquatch has become unstoppable. I thought then it would be
accomplished with night cameras which has been done but still been
debated. Real trackers are now working the case. This is a much
better way. A triple confirmed DNA test to provide a standard for
Asia and a comparable for North America raises the Sasquatch out of
controversy forever.
Again it is rising on to the front pages of our newspapers.
Sasquatch in
Siberia? Hair found in Russian cave 'belonged to unknown mammal
closely related to man'
Hair did not belong
to any known animal from the region such as a bear, wolf, or goat
Mysterious mammal
more closely related to man than to monkeys
By WILL STEWART
IN MOSCOW
30 October 2012
Astonishing claims
were made in Russia today that DNA tests on suspected 'Yeti hair'
reveals the existence of 'an unknown mammal closely related to man'.
The 'tests' were
conducted on samples of hair found in a Siberian cave during an
international expedition last year.
'We had ten samples
of hair to study, and have concluded that they belong to mammal, but
not a human,' said Professor Valentin Sapunov, of the Russian State
Hydrometeorological Institute.
Nor did the hair
belong to any known animal from the region such as a bear, wolf, or
goat, he claimed.
Analysis was conducted
in the Russia and US and 'agreed the hair came from a human-like
creature which is not a Homo sapien yet is more closely related to
man than a monkey', said the Siberian Times, citing claims made on a
regional government website in Russia in the area where the hair
samples were allegedly found.
It stated that
long-awaited scientific tests were conducted on their hair at two
institutions in Russia and one in Idaho in the US.
'All three world
level universities have finished DNA analysis of the hair and said
that the hair belongs to a creature which is closer by its biological
parameters to Homo sapiens than a monkey. The Yeti's DNA is evidently
less than one per cent different to that of a human.'
The tests were
undertaken on hair found one year ago in the Azasskaya Cave in the
Mourt Shoriya area of Kemerovo region in Siberia, it was alleged.
The 2011 expedition
to the remote cave complex in Kemerovo when the alleged Yeti
hair was found was led by Dr Igor Birtsev, seen as Russia's leading
advocate of the existence of the abominable snowman.
Yeti region: The hair
was found in Kemerovo which is a notorious yeti sighting spot
He last night
questioned the conclusions saying he was seeking more information
about the alleged tests.
The Siberian Times
said only 'scant' details were made available of the 'DNA findings'.
Sapunov claimed that
the prestigious Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences
was involved in the tests.
Yeti 'sightings' have
been reported for centuries in most continents but the creature has
evaded capture and no remains have ever been discovered.
Several 'sightings' of
yetis have been made recently according to a Russian official and
fishermen in Siberia.
'We shouted to them -
do you need help?,' said fisherman Vitaly Vershinin.
'They just rushed
away, all in fur, walking on two legs, making their way through the
bushes and with two other limbs, straight up the hill.'
He continued: 'What
did we think? It could not be bears, as the bear walks on all-fours,
and they ran on two.... so then they were gone.'
Russia's leading
researcher on yetis, Igor Burtsev claims around 30 of the 'abominable
snowmen' live in the Kemerovo region, where these sightings were.
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