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DNA Analysis Finds That Yetis Are Actually Bears (popsci.com)
schwit1 shares a report from Popular Science: University of Buffalo biologist Charlotte Lindqvist and her international team in Pakistan and Singapore provided the first strong evidence that presumed yetis are actually bears. They published their results in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Tuesday. Icon Film secured nine samples that purported to be genuine yeti artifacts, and Lindqvist gathered 15 samples from known bear populations. By sequencing mitochondria from all these sources, she and her fellow researchers were able to determine that all but one of the yeti artifacts actually came from local bears. That last sample was from a dog. They also figured out that Himalayan brown bears split off from the rest of the regional bear population several thousand years ago, which is why they're so genetically distinct from most other brown bears. Living in geographic isolation for so long has separated them from other Asian brown bears, and even from their relatives on the nearby Tibetan plateau. They even look different. But prior to Lindqvist's work, it wasn't clear just how long Himalayan bears had been on their own. Researchers will need higher-quality samples to figure out the whole picture, but even this small step is major for a species that's hardly been studied.
No, bears are actually bears. Yetis are bullshit.
Thanks, DNA!
Yeti's wear bear skin clothing. It gets cold up there!
Yetis are real, f u science
...they should be doing DNA tests in trailer parks.
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Once you've seen the video below (bears walking upright), it becomes pretty damn obvious why people think they saw a humanoid.
https://youtu.be/kcIkQaLJ9r8?t=7
In this age of cellphones with cameras everywhere, there is no way yetis are living in the US and not on camera all the time.
This research was done by bear scientists. Of course they will issue results that will increase their funding. Libturds will probably believe it though. The scientists didn't even take into account that Yetis could have cross-bred with bears, or that DNA can change when frozen in the ICE.
Are yetis actually bears...or.... [drum roll] are the bears really yetis?
The DNA match didn't prove yetis are actually bears. Maybe the bears are actually yetis!
* Of course they are bears.
"Yeti" is the word for bear in the local language.
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Yetis are mutated bears, like the yao guai, which are totally real because I killed a mess of them in the Boston area.
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I like how science is gradually eliminating mysteries. I mean that. There was somebody who complained that google was ruining us because you never had bask in wonder at the world's mysteries. 90% of the ones a regular chap could comprehend were a 2 second search away and you could find solid theories on the other 10%. The guy who wrote it was upset that we lost a sense of mystery, but I see it as as gaining a sense that the universe could be understood. That things happen for defined reasons and that we can, with time and learning take control of our destinies and shape them to our liking. In other words: Fate is bullshit.
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If you ever tune in to the Bigfoot/Sasquatch enthusiast groups you will find that there are tons of sightings, and lots and lots of physical evidence, hair, coprolites, stuff that would be loaded with Bigfoot DNA. It it was real.
Despite the fact that anyone can run a DNA test that identifies species for under $100 today, and that finding a single sample of DNA from an unknown primate would make the person finding it famous forever, not a single specimen claimed to be from a Bigfoot has ever been found to have anything but a known animal (usually human, sometimes bear, or other known mammal) as its source.
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Of course yetis are bears. You can simply tell by their appearance. Scientists should really just move on and focus on the bigger problems.
Yetis are bears.
Yetis are fictional
Ergo, bears are fictional.
What they meant to say was "nope, these are not yeti artifacts, they are bear artifacts", not that bears = yetis = fictional.
So are you saying that at these locations that people thought that they saw Yetis, there where indigenous bears at the same locations? And no one actually made the obvious connection?
Here is a hint for those people: If you see a big hairy animal at a distance and you know that there are big hairy animals roaming around called bears. It's fair to assume that those are bears.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/frilled-shark-portugal-algarve-coast-snake-head-300-teeth-science-trawler-fishing-a8051596.html
It can't be true!
You do realise that the Patterson-Gimlin film is proof that a real Bigfoot exists? Or is it simply impossible for any animal to exist that hasn't already been discovered by mankind?
Please explain the Patterson-Gimlin film.
WTF!! o_O
Mine is a coffee cup.
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At first I was afraid of the wave of destruction that might ensue since I read that as "sequencing midi-chlorian".
Jedi Yetis... yikes.
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but as crazy as it is it's still something to be understood. Like you said, testable and true. In that sense it's not a mystery, just something too complicated to be understood at first (or second, or third, or thousandth) pass.
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Yeti bears are made of ytterbium.