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Yeti a Mountain Polar Bear

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According to British geneticist Bryan Sykes, the Yeti is not an ape-like relative of Bigfoot, as the legends of this creature would have us believe. Gathering DNA samples from two regions of the Himalayan Mountains, Sykes has used sophisticated genetic analysis techniques to compare them to the genetic codes of other animals and samples that have been gathered over the years, and he came up with an exact match. The match came from a jawbone discovered in Svalbard, Norway, that belonged to a species polar bear that lived at least 40,000 years ag

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