Yeti remains found in Siberia

[Psychedelic Fuzz]

I swear I'm not making this up.
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Siberia find revives yeti legends
Siberian scientists say they have a discovery on their hands which raises the possibility that the local legend of the yeti - the abominable snowman - is more than mere fiction.
According to Russian TV, the well-preserved furry limb of a mystery creature was found some 3,500 metres up in the permafrost of the Altay mountains, in Russia's remote Siberia region.

"I turned the limb over and examined the sole of the foot, and I thought it looked unsual," Sergey Semenov, the mountain-climber who made the find, said.

"So I decided to bring it back with me."

Scientific tests and X-rays show that the bones are several thousand years old, but attempts to identify the creature they belonged to remain inconclusive.

Local opinion on the find, described as "surprisingly well-preserved", is divided.

There is a long tradition of alleged sightings in the area of what might - or might not - be the abominable snowman.


Local people say the creature must have walked on snow, because the sole of the foot is furry.


They have already labelled the discovery as the foot of the yeti.

But veterinary scientists and academics at the local animal research institute and agragrian university tend towards a more rational explanation.

"It looks very human," Yuriy Malofeyev, vice-president of the Russian association of veterinary anatomists, told the TV after examining the X-rays.

"There are many similarities," he said.

That view appears to be supported by the fact that the length of the foot is about 24 centimetre - normal for a human being.

"A size 36 shoe would fit him just fine," the TV concluded.

BBC Monitoring , based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.

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Sure they're not pulling our leg. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[Drbio]

Interesting. I will hold opinion until well trained zoologists can examine it.

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"It looks very human," Yuriy Malofeyev, vice-president of the Russian association of veterinary anatomists, told the TV after examining the X-rays.

"There are many similarities," he said.

That view appears to be supported by the fact that the length of the foot is about 24 centimetre - normal for a human being.

"A size 36 shoe would fit him just fine," the TV concluded.

BBC Monitoring , based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.

So is it a harry human limb with claws?

Are the people saying it is a human claiming evolution?

Maybe it is a human foot that just really got moldy over the years.

[Psychedelic Fuzz]

correct me if I'm wrong Doc, but wasn't a huge jawbone from an extinct type of ape found in china?

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Wonder what scientist will think 3,000 years from now when they find Shaq's skeleton? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[Drbio]

Originally posted by: Psychedelic Fuzz
correct me if I'm wrong Doc, but wasn't a huge jawbone from an extinct type of ape found in china?

I'm not sure of which case yo uare referring to right off the top of my head, but there are numerous human-like fossil discoveries. They become very interesting when we can proprely account for their age. It will be interesting to see how this pans out.

[Psychedelic Fuzz]

i believe the creature was named gigantopithecus(sp) or something like that