One turned out to be from a dog; the other eight came from bears: either the Asian black bear, the Himalayan brown bear or the Tibetan brown bear. A hair sample from a purported Yeti in Nepal, said to have been spotted by a Jesuit priest in the 1950s. A femur bone from the decayed body of a purported Yeti found in a cave in Tibet. Biologist Charlotte Lindqvist tested DNA from the bone and found it belonged to a Tibetan brown bear. "This way, we could — with strong statistical support — place the purported Yeti samples among modern populations."

Source: CBC News November 29, 2017 00:00 UTC