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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!
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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.
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Don't be silly. They've been able to avoid contact with humans (other than their occasional scouting party) by taking over the moon base the space nazi's built with bigfoot and the lizard aliens. Don't forget, there's a huge rivalry between bigfoot and yetis, mostly having to do with hair color and whether they use hair conditioner before, or after, showering.... and don't even mention the whole putting on shoes wrong; sock, shoe, sock, shoe... or sock, sock, shoe, shoe thing; that really riles them up.
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Hey thanks for that!
I never thought about sock, shoe, sock, shoe. I will try it tomorrow to see if it makes any difference.
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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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But conservatives always tell me poverty is a choice. So these people have chosen their circumstances. I don't understand why you are pretending to be outraged.
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Rainhold Messner, a famous german mountain climber already speculated in the early 1990/ that Yeti are likely big bears. ... so it is a bit to simple to accuse them of ignorrance.
However you simplify it to much. Yeti supposedly live in the Himalaya, and the amount of bears there is so low, ordinary people never see one in their life. Probably they often don't know that there are bears living around.
Yeti/bear signtings are super rare, and usually people don't survive it
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