The Abominable Snowman

Mysteries of Science

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🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Stories of wild giants living in the snow are part of growing up in the mountains. There’s a good chance you’ve heard these stories too; tales of large bipedal creatures (an animal that walks on two legs) living within the foothills of the Himalayan mountains have been around for over 2,000 years...

What is this creature? And is it really possible such a giant might exist?

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0:00.0	Oh, hello everybody and welcome to mysteries of science.
0:12.0	My name's Dan and I'm the editor of Science in Nature, the monthly magazine from the team behind the week junior.
0:19.0	And I'm Michael, the features editor.
0:23.1	Science helps us to understand the universe,
0:26.0	but there are some strange cases it still hasn't solved,
0:27.2	including this one.
0:29.5	We're hiking in the Himalayas,
0:31.4	which is a mountain range in Asia,
0:34.6	and we're on the lookout for a strange beast,
0:39.2	known as the Yeti or the Abominable Snowman.
0:45.5	Tales of a large, hairy, human-like creature living in these parts have been going around for over 2,000 years.
0:51.1	But where do these stories come from? And could such a giant actually exist?
0:52.7	Dan, what was that?
0:57.0	Um, I'm not sure. is mysteries of science. Right, Michael, if we're going to find the Yeti, I think we need to know what it is and what it looks like.
1:05.0	Well Dan, in Tibetan folklore there are a few different types of Yeti.
1:09.0	So the largest of these is the Nialmo, which is said to be 4.5 meters tall and have thick
1:14.1	black fur.
1:15.4	While the smallest, to add a mere 1 to 2 meters tall is the Rangshimbombo which has reddish
1:20.1	brown fur.
1:21.1	Though the image that you might be more familiar with is the one you might have seen in
1:24.8	films like Monsters Inc of a large bipedal ape with a thick
1:28.2	white coat of fur. Bipedal means walking on two feet. Yeah, that's what I think about when I
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