There are foreign explorers who claim to have obtained the himalayan yeti corpse, and genetic testing by biological experts believes it is not any known species to humans. What exactly is the himalayan snowman unknown species? Following lao sa, we enter today's story. ---- primer
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Hello everyone, I am a question-loving old man. In 2002, the British "Times" reported that scientists at oxford university in the United Kingdom found a clump of hair on the branches of branches in the Himalayas of Bhutan, and after DNA testing of the hair by zoologist Robb McKar, this hair does not belong to any known species of man. Researchers suspect that this hair is the hair of the legendary Himalayan snowman, that the Himalayan snowman is a slowly evolving race among ancient humans, and some scholars believe that the snowman is a direct descendant of prehistoric animals.
Snowman footprints
The idea of the existence of snowmen in the Himalayas has been circulating among local herders. In 1948, there was even a herdsman named Sanda who was attacked by a snowman and was caught by the snowman's claws and died of serious injuries, it is said that at that time, people smelled a very strong odor on Sanda's body, but the smell was not corpse odor, but it seemed that the body odor left by the snowman was a smell similar to fox odor. However, among many rumors, the snowman is not all the image of the beast that attacks and kills humans, and there are also examples of the snowman helping mankind, such as a captain named Ovigu in Calcutta who describes his experience encounter with the snowman.
One day in 1938, Ovigu traveled alone in the Himalayas, but unfortunately he was hit by a heavy snowstorm, and the wind combined with the snow blindness caused by his long stay in the snow field, Ovigu could not see anything, he could not discern the direction, and could not even find a place to temporarily shelter from the wind and snow. Without any call for help, during the storm Ovigu realized that his body temperature was rapidly draining, but there was nothing he could do but desperately wait for death to come, waiting for him to become a frozen corpse. Just as Oviegu was already unconscious and close to death, he suddenly felt something warm and tall covering his body.
The lost body temperature warmed up, Ovigu's consciousness gradually became clear, the storm stopped, and the tall animals left. Ovigu couldn't see the animal's appearance, but he smelled the strong fox odor left by the animal. In addition to Ovigu, a Sherpas girl from Nepal also received help from the Snowman. At that time, she was chopping firewood on the mountain, and suddenly encountered an attack by a snow leopard, which should have already targeted the girl, and launched a fatal blow when the girl was unguarded and targeted the throat area. At the moment of crisis, another fierce beast suddenly rushed up and fought with the snow leopard. The girl took the opportunity to escape and save her life. Later, according to the girl, another fierce beast may be the snowman, who saw that the other side had red hair on its head and its body was covered with white hair.
A veteran surnamed Zhang from Bomi County, Tibet, also told the expedition team about his experience of seeing the snowman. At that time, he heard the herdsmen say that there were snowmen that harmed their cattle, and when Lao Zhang led people to the scene, he saw that there was blood on the ground, and the animal's torso was torn to pieces, and one person suddenly shouted, "Look at the mountain", Lao Zhang looked up, only to see something moving in the snow. He quickly took out his binoculars and saw eight or nine huge long-haired monsters, carrying the corpses of cattle, horses and other animals, walking toward the mountain. He visually measured the monsters to be more than two meters and five meters tall. At that time, those cattle were very valuable to the herders, and although they were a little frightened, Lao Zhang still led people to chase them. But by the time they reached the mountain, the monsters were gone, and it was snowing heavily and their footprints were covered. Lao Zhang took people around and did not see any more sight of the snowman.
The previous old man said that it was only a local rumor, but there was no evidence of the real existence of the snowman, so although the rumors continued, it did not attract widespread attention until the first photo of the footprints of the snowman came out, and the Himalayan snowmen attracted the attention of people all over the world. The photograph was taken by british explorer Shipton in 1951. As can be seen from the photo, the thumb of this footprint is turned outwards and has a pronounced arch of the foot, which are characteristics that only primates can have. The footprints are 33.3 cm long and 18.8 cm wide, and judging by the size of the footprints, the creature is 2 to 3 meters tall.
Combined with rumors and footprint photos, this creature is tall, humanoid, covered in hair, fierce and powerful. This seems to fit the image of the apes, is the Yeti an ape race that did not evolve into adults in prehistory? The archaeologists' new discoveries in the Jiashan area seem to serve as evidence for this conjecture.
The People of Giesan Goki
At the end of the last century, the archaeological team found a batch of primitive pottery and stone tools in Jiashan, and after testing, this batch of primitive artifacts is only a few hundred years old. This makes archaeologists very peculiar, because hundreds of years ago human beings have long since left the primitive period and entered a more civilized era, who made and used simple primitive artifacts in the civilized era? Archaeologists visited local residents and heard about the existence of the "Goki" from the elderly population. It is said that the Jiashan area is not inhabited by the indigenous people of the area, they have migrated due to wars or natural disasters, and the indigenous people of Jiashan are the Goki people. The two races fought over habitat.
Before the fight begins, the two races agree that they will attack each other with snowballs, and whichever side wins will belong to which side. At first, the latecomers could not beat the strong and powerful Goki, so they thought of a way to wrap the white stone in snow and beat it. In this way, the latecomers defeated the Goki, and it is said that the defeated Goki eventually migrated to live in the snow-capped mountains to the south. The custom of placing white stones on the roof of the house that still exists in the People of jiashan area is derived from this. Some people think that the snow-capped mountains in the south of the legend are today's Himalayas, and from the geographical point of view, this is indeed true. And the Himalayan snowmen are naturally descendants of the Goki.
Later, the archaeological team, led by the villagers, also found several caves on the rockery. These caves have obvious traces of artificial excavation, which can be confirmed not to be naturally formed, and all of the caves have carefully polished large stones, which researchers believe were used as beds to sleep. Obviously, the caves that can be dug and the stone beds cannot be ordinary beasts. Local villagers feel that these caves are the residence of the Goki people in the first place. Some researchers speculate that the Goki people should be a slowly evolving race, living in the same period as ancient humans, but because they evolved slowly and their brains were not as developed as our ancestors, they were slowly eliminated in the competition for survival, while a small number of survivors hid in the mountains to live.
In the harsh and closed conditions of life in the mountains, the Goki evolved more and more slowly, resulting in the fact that they were still in the form of apes until the last century in the case of witnessing. Of course, this is only the speculation of researchers, and the archaeological community has not yet found substantial evidence in Jiashan that can prove the existence of the Goki people. At the beginning of the article, Lao Sa mentioned that scientists had tested the hair of a suspected snowman and concluded that the creature was not a known species of any human being. But in fact, in addition to hair, foreign explorers have even picked up the body of a snowman and made it into a mummy. Biologists have examined the yeti mummy and come to another completely opposite conclusion.
The snowman mummy
Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper once reported that two explorers in the U.S. state of Georgia had found the body of a Himalayan snowman and sold it for $10 million. But they didn't reveal any information about the buyer. The two explorers, Matthew and Rick, respectively, said they had encountered the carcass of an animal that looked similar to a human's appearance in the primeval jungle of the Himalayas in July of that year. From the outside, its body is covered with hair. The cause of death of this creature suspected to be a snowman, on the outside, seems to have been very seriously injured in the eye, and then the wound was infected and died. Matthew and Rick called for help from nearby villagers, and eight people walked nearly 11 kilometers of mountain walk before carrying the bodies to a local church.
Later, the two found a freezer and stored the body frozen. The head of the Mysterious Animals Research Organization saw the corpse with his own eyes, and this expert named Tom Biscalge believes it is the corpse of the legendary Himalayan yeti. He visually estimated that the snowman was about 2.7 meters high and weighed 300 kilograms. The Mysterious Animals research group has photos and videos of the snowman's carcass in hand. Although the body of the snowman was not displayed in private collections, in 1997 France publicly displayed another body of a snowman claiming to be from the Himalayas. But then the body disappeared inexplicably, leading some to doubt its authenticity.
Brian Sykes, a professor of genetics at the University of Oxford, has conducted DNA analysis of the hairs of two Himalayan snowmen, indicating that the snowmen may be the descendants of ancient polar bears, and Brian compared the data from the snowman DNA with the data in the animal gene pool and found that it was only 4,000 years old. Polar bears found in the Norwegian Arctic Circle are genetically similar. Brian believes that the yeti is not an existing bear breed in the Himalayas, but a direct branch of the prehistoric polar bear. However, some scientists have always been skeptical of the Himalayan snowman, believing that the snowman is just a legendary creature that does not exist in reality. Professor Brian believes that people can invent a non-existent organism, but humans cannot fabricate a non-existent DNA sequence from a hair.
Well, today's article ends here, do you think the Himalayan yeti are descendants of the Goki, or a prehistoric species? Pay attention to the old sa, listen to the brain hole story, we will see you in the next issue.