14 DAY TRIAL // Scientists concluded that a finger claimed to have belonged to a yeti is in fact human. DNA test confirmed that the biological sample, which was removed from a monastery in Nepal where monks worshiped it, does not belong to the mythical creature.
A Bigfoot researcher collected it from the monks in the 1950s, and researchers have been trying to figure it out ever since. It was only recently though that Edinburgh Zoo researchers performed a DNA analysis on the digit.
The results indicate that either yeti is more human-like than anyone suspects, or that the creature does not exist at all. The analysis revealed the finger to be nothing but human, with experts speculating that it may belong to a dead monk, LiveScience reports.
“We had to stitch it together. We had several fragments that we put into one big sequence, and then we matched that against the database and we found human DNA. [The result] wasn’t too surprising, but obviously slightly disappointing,” Royal Zoological Society of Scotland expert Rob Ogden told the BBC News.