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Posted on 07/31/2008 2:45:51 PM PDT by dragonblustar
The hunt for the mysterious Yeti - otherwise known as the Abominable Snowman - has frustrated scientists for decades.
Yesterday, scientists at Oxford Brookes University joined in the hunt after being given a number of hair strands taken from what is purported to be a Yeti-like creature in India.
The Brookes boffins used high-powered microscopes to analyse the samples found in the West Garo jungle of the north-eastern state of Meghalaya.
They compared the suspected Yeti strands to samples taken from primates, bears, dogs, yaks and humans, which were provided by the Natural History Museum in Oxford.
After the microscope tests have been carried out, the hairs will be sent away to a laboratory for DNA testing.
Dr Anna Nekaris, of the university's anthropology department, said: "It's exciting to be asked to take part in this research.
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I’m thinking they need to sample Rosie O’s hairs, just in case.
Sir Edmund Hillary also reported large footprints on Everest in 1953.”
I wonder if the Yeti ascended with or without oxygen tanks?
In the end, all they can say is that the hairs don’t match up to any animal they compared them to, right?
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