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Yeti, Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Yowie are names of giant creatures whose existence is uncertain and often widely debated.
Cryptozoologists have long complained their research is not being taken seriously by mainstream scientists.
That is about to change now when a group of established scientists from UK and Switzerland are launching a
new project that should prove whether or not these undocumented creatures exist.
So far, no-one has been able to provide any conclusive evidence of these giant mystical creatures, which is the reason
why many scientists have been skeptical.
"It's one of the claims by cryptozoologists that science does not take them seriously. Well, this is their chance.
We are calling for people to send us their evidence, and we will test it through DNA analysis," says Bryan Sykes, a
Professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford in the UK.
Scientists from UK and Switerland will try to determine whether giant mythical creatures exist.
It is likely that the project is the biggest and most comprehensive attempt yet to probe suspected "remains". "Nothing like this, on this level, has been done before," says Richard Freeman from the Centre for Fortean Zoology in the UK.
The
Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project
is already attracting attention from a variety of groups, says Professor Sykes, who is also founder of a business called Oxford Ancestors, which helps
people trace their relatives through DNA for a fee. However, this was to be expected. Skeptic or not who doesn't want to know the real truth about Yeti and his giant friends.
This is frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film taken on October 20th, 1967, claiming to depict Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Colton. Image credit: Patterson-Gimlin film
Myths and legends about these creatures loom large in every culture and the idea of finally finding solid evidence for their existence is appealing,
no matter who you are. "It's a story that just does not go away. We are so intrigued by these quests for the unknown, even doubters want to hear about developments,"
Professor Sykes says.
But how will the Hominid project actually be able to prove or disapprove the existence of Yeti, Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Yowie?
To begin with Sykes and his colleagues have asked people around the world to submit samples before September, along with theories about what they could be.
Later they plan to use DNA barcoding to test each specimen.
The team will largely focus on hair samples which are regarded as the most commonly presented physical evidence to back up claims of sightings.
"Up until the last couple of years, you needed quite a lot of biological material … and often the results were inconclusive," said Sykes.
"Now, all we need is a small amount of hair."
Of course there is the problem that Sykes and his team can find a sequence of DNA that has no match in the world's databases,
it does not automatically mean that the creature is a mythical beast, says Albert Zink, an anthropologist at the European Academy of Bolzano in
Italy, who questions the validity of the whole enterprise. "It could be a sample of an extinct animal that has nothing to do with the Yeti myth," he explains.
The first report of a strange creature living in the Himalayas dates back to 1832, when climber B.H. Hodgson of Nepal witnessed a tall beast covered in dark hair walking on two feet.
Professor Sykes admits that might be the case but he is unconcerned.
The Hominid Project has potential to determine the relationship between our own species and others.
It could even help identify new species of hominid.
"Theories as to what Yetis are... range from surviving collateral hominid species, such as Homo neanderthalensis or Homo floresiensis,
to large primates like Gigantopithecus, which were widely thought to be extinct," says Sykes.
Sykes has been confronted with criticism ever since the project started.
Although he admits that the project is speculative and unlikely to find a new species of hominid, he argues the search is still valid.
"Science does not accept or reject hypotheses but evaluates them on the basis of evidence," he says.
"This is why I am confident that examining the evidence of alleged Yetis does not fall outside the realm of proper scientific enquiry."
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