Yetis Are Bears? Not So Fast!

As often happens when viewed through a series of press releases and news treatments, a new DNA study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B of nine alleged “Yeti” samples obtained from the Icon Films television documentary company and of some known bear samples has rocked the media with claims that “Yetis are bears.” (Science News, “So much for the abominable snowman. Study finds that ‘yeti’ DNA belongs to bears.”)

For decades, cryptozoologists have pointed to there being three kinds of Yetis – a small Yeti, a human-sized Yeti, and a quite large bear-like Yeti. Explorer Tom Slick investigated these three types in the Himalayas in the 1950s. Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan T. Sanderson in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as modern researchers this century, including myself, Mark A. Hall, and Patrick Huyghe, called this variety the Dzu-Teh.  The recent Bryan Sykes’ study confirmed there were bear artifacts behind some of the so-called Yeti samples he studied and which were highlighted by Icon Films. Should we be surprised that “bear” results are to be found if selections of those samples are retested?

Full Article: http://www.cryptozoonews.com/yetis-bears/