Posted on 07/28/2008 6:56:50 AM PDT by Daffynition
The hunt for the elusive creature - said to be 10ft tall, part man, part ape and otherwise known as the Abominable Snowman - has frustrated scientists for decades.
Now tests at Oxford Brookes University on hairs said to be from a Yeti in India have failed to link the strands with any known species.
Ape expert Ian Redmond, who is leading the research, said: "The hairs are the most positive evidence yet that a Yeti might possibly exist.
"It may be that the region this animal is inhabiting is remote enough for it to remain undiscovered so far."
The two hairs - 33mm and 44mm long - were found in a jungle in the mountains of north-east India five years ago.
A forester claimed to seen a Yeti, known locally as mande barung or "forest man", two days in a row breaking branches off trees and eating their sap.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
My money is on a cold climate Chupacabra.
Argh! My eyes!
"Did I ever tell you of my trip to the mountains of north-east India in 2002?"
I just can’t stomach that Abdominal Snowman! Always flexing his abs . . .
Gigantopithecus is an extinct genus of ape that existed from roughly one million years to as recently as three-hundred thousand years ago, in what is now China, India, and Vietnam, placing Gigantopithecus in the same time frame and geographical location as several hominid species. The fossil record suggests that the Gigantopithecus blacki species were the largest apes that ever lived, standing up to 10 feet (3.0 m) and weighing up to 1,200 pounds (540 kg).
Gigantopithecus blacki (Greek and Latin for "Black Giant Ape") is an extinct species of ape.
The only known fossils of G. blacki are a few teeth and mandibles found in cave sites in South-East Asia. As the name suggests, these are appreciably larger than those of living gorillas, but the exact size and structure of the rest of the body can only be estimated in the absence of additional findings. Recent research using high-precision absolute-dating methods has shown that after existing for about a million years, G. blacki died out 100,000 years ago. This means that it coexisted with (anatomically) modern humans (Homo sapiens) for a few dozen thousands of years, and with the most immediate ancestors of H. sapiens before that.
Based on the fossil evidence, paleontologists speculate that Gigantopithecus had an adult standing height of over three meters (ten feet) and a weight of 550 kg (1200 lb), and was thus much larger and heavier than current-day gorillas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus_blacki
Try another database??
SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURES:
Find two hairs
Get some big grant money....
Write an article...
Then get your buddy scientist to dispute your results....
THEN...BOTH OF YOU go for more grant money.
Relative of the “Swamp Ape”... ?
Hm...
Interesting story, but it will take more than a couple of mystery hairs to convince the unconvincable. You need a body.
‘Yeti hair’ to get DNA analysis
BBC | Friday, 25 July 2008 12:19 UK | By Alastair Lawson
Posted on 07/25/2008 6:22:30 AM PDT by Perdogg
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That was exactly the pic I thought of when I saw this story! Thanks for posting it. ;)
Holy APE! That is fantastic!
If I don’t double post a couple of articles/24 hrs ... my day isn’t complete! 8-)
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