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'Yeti finger' DNA test results revealed

 
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Set high in a remote Himalayan mountain range stands the Pangboche Buddhist monastery.
During heavy snowstorms, it can be found only by travellers who listen for the monks’ ceremonial horns.

The walls are lined with traditional Nepalese paintings depicting the treacherous tracks to the monastery.
And among them are pictures of the legendary ape-like creature we refer to as the Yeti.
This might seem fanciful until you learn that, for many years, a shriveled hand (about the size of an adult human’s, with long, fat fingers and curling nails) was also on display in the monastery — and revered by the monks, who
believed it protected them from bad luck.

I would know nothing about this story were it not for the fact that while walking around a collection of human and primate skeletons at the Royal College of Surgeons in London three years ago, I came across a withered finger which had only recently been found in the vaults of the College’s Hunterian Museum. It was labelled ‘a Yeti finger from Pangboche hand’.
What was the story behind this finger, I wondered, and how did it end up in London? Where was the rest of the ‘Pangboche hand’? And what truth was there behind the label’s claim that this finger belonged to the Yeti of ancient legend?

The myth has it that the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, is a vast creature which inhabits the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet, where tales about Yetis have been passed down through generations.
Fossil remains found there from the Pleistocene age (2,500,000 to 11,700 years ago) reveal skeletons of a creature called the Gigantopithecus, or great ape, which became extinct 300,000 years ago.
These towering primates reached about 10ft in height and weighed half a ton.
It is possible they lived alongside our human ancestors in what are now China, India and Vietnam. Yet the scientific community generally regards this species simply as a large, extinct ape — and the Yeti as nothing more than a legend.
Tales of the Meh-te, or ‘man bear’ as Yetis are known in Nepal, gained popular currency in the West only in the 1830s when the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal published British orientalist B. H. Hodgson’s account of a tall, two-legged creature covered with dark hair that he claimed to have seen while trekking in Nepal.


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“I think there's something strangely musical about noise.”

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Much of the art from this monastery is reproduced on the Disney ride Expedition to Everest -- the ride actually includes a lot of the journalistic evidence for the Yeti in the cue.
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Re: 'Yeti finger' DNA test results revealed
misleading headline...

DNA tests will finally solve a truly bizarre mystery
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Also, when creating their Yeti museum, Disney when on a search to aquire a whole series of never before seen documents on the hand. This has generating a new interest in the mystery.
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From the article:

"The Royal College of Surgeons then granted my request for a tiny sliver of it to be analysed in DNA tests.
These were administered by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and the results will be revealed in a special BBC Natural History documentary on Radio 4 today."

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Maybe we will find out what the results are today.
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From the article:

"The Royal College of Surgeons then granted my request for a tiny sliver of it to be analysed in DNA tests.
These were administered by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and the results will be revealed in a special BBC Natural History documentary on Radio 4 today."

Read more: [link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

Maybe we will find out what the results are today.
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It has already played in the UK. Available for listening--

[link to www.bbc.co.uk]


I am listening now.

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From the article:

"The Royal College of Surgeons then granted my request for a tiny sliver of it to be analysed in DNA tests.
These were administered by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and the results will be revealed in a special BBC Natural History documentary on Radio 4 today."

Read more: [link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

Maybe we will find out what the results are today.
 Quoting: goodmockingbird


It has already played in the UK. Available for listening--

[link to www.bbc.co.uk]


I am listening now.
 Quoting: IllumiNaughty


Thanks
“I think there's something strangely musical about noise.”

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“And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.”
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Jimmy Stewart's voice overlaid with Tibetan horns and tingsha is some high wierdness indeed.

Thanks for the link -- am listening now.
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*sigh*
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Results from DNA tests: It's a human finger.
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Results from DNA tests: It's a human finger.
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I saw that... Interesting
“I think there's something strangely musical about noise.”

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“And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.”
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hows that interesting?
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