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The Yeti, also known as the abominable snowman. It's a legendary primate some people believe exists in the Himalayas and adjacent frozen lands. But what do you get when you use modern DNA

techniques to analyze bodily samples allegedly left by Yetis. Well, eight times out of nine,

you wind up with the genetic signature of your non-abominable neighborhood bear. These unmysterious results

are revealed in the proceedings of the Royal Society B. This new study is not the first to examine DNA

extracted from samples allegedly derived from

Yetis. Analysis of short DNA fragments from a pair of samples, collected in India and Bhutan,

matched that of an ancient polar bear bone. That 2014 finding raised the possibility that

the abominable snowman could actually be a previously unrecognized bear species, or even some sort

of hybrid brown bear polar bear that wanders the Tibetan plateau. In the current study,

researchers conducted a more comprehensive comparison of DNA from 24 samples, including nine that

supposedly came from Yetis. These specimens, collected from the field or borrowed from

museums, included bits of hair, bone, skin, and scat. Eight of these nine Yetty samples were

identified as actually coming from the Asian black bears, Himalayan brown bears, and Tibetan brown bears

that call this remote region home. But what about that ninth sample? Yeah, it was from a

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