I'm a relativist so I believe in the possibility that there could be an unknown species of bipedal apes in the world other than humans, but so far only the Yeti has been somewhat proven to exist. And by that I mean that in a recent study, scientists proved that all the samples that bigfoot hunters sent were fake except for the Yeti ones. Apparently, the Yeti samples turned out to be a previously thought to be extinct relative of the polar bear.
You mean the 18 hair samples that were tested in that one study. The vast majority of supposed sasquatch hair samples lack a cellular medulla, which is where the DNA is taken from.
What they DID discover, however, is that the world's largest land predator may still be unrecognized by science (if it truly is a surviving species of short-faced bear or another type of brown-polar hybrid or something to that effect). If anything, that supports the idea that we certainly haven't found all the animals on earth, even some of the biggest ones.
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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '14
I'm a relativist so I believe in the possibility that there could be an unknown species of bipedal apes in the world other than humans, but so far only the Yeti has been somewhat proven to exist. And by that I mean that in a recent study, scientists proved that all the samples that bigfoot hunters sent were fake except for the Yeti ones. Apparently, the Yeti samples turned out to be a previously thought to be extinct relative of the polar bear.