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American television channel host Josh Gates displays what is believed to be 'Yeti' footprints. Experts in Nepal raise doubts over 'Yeti' footprint December 3, 2007 - 8:38PM Mountaineering and wildlife experts in Nepal say they doubt whether footprints found by a United States team from a science fiction program are those of a Yeti. The host and crew from Destination Truth spent about a week in the foothills of Mount Everest and returned to the capital Kathmandu last week claiming they had found footprints belonging to the legendary creature. "The footprints may be from a Himalayan bear," Ang Tshering Sherpa, the president of Nepal Mountaineering Association, said today after looking at pictures of the prints. "It is believed that Yetis have only four toes but the footprints recorded by the US team have five toes," said Sherpa, whose father went unsuccessfully looking for the legendary beast in the 1950s. The Yeti - described as a massive half-human, half-ape-like creature - has captured the imagination of explorers and climbers in the Himalayas for generations. Dozens of costly expeditions have taken place, none of which have proved the existence of the beast. After seeing what he thought was a fleeting glimpse of a Yeti in 1986, climbing legend Reinhold Messner began investigating the myths and stories that surround it. In his 1998 book My Quest for the Yeti, Messner concludes that it only exists in peoples' imaginations and the Himalayan black bear was probably behind most sightings. Destination Truth - which investigates the existence of mythical creatures - is being made for an American science fiction channel. Host Joshua Gates said on Saturday the program would further investigate the footprints, which were found last week on the bank of the Manju River, 150 kilometres north-east of Kathmandu. "The footprint is 13 inches (33 centimetres) long and the toes span nine inches (23 centimetres) across," Gates said at a hotel in Kathmandu. "This is really an intriguing piece of evidence and we all feel a little bit unable to explain what we saw," he said. But Laxmi Manandhar, a spokesman at the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, said: "People living in the high Himalayas believe in this strange creature called a Yeti but nobody has actually seen it. "The footprint castings brought by the US television crew are strange, but there is no supporting evidence to back up the claim that these are footprints of the Yeti." SOURCE: Copyright © 2007. The Sydney Morning Herald |
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SOURCE: Yeti on a Harley-Davidson, Nepal |
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Machapuchare or Machhaphuchhare (माछापुछ्रे) "Fish Tail" in English, is a mountain in the Annapurna Himal of north central Nepal. It is revered by the local population as particularly sacred to the god Shiva, and hence is off limits to climbing. SOURCE: Machapuchare It is also the rumored home of the Yeti's Related Links: |
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Gigantopithecus Blacki ..
Reconstruction of an ancient ape dubbed Gigantopithecus Blacki From the Teeth
of the Dragon
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Some suggest that Gigantopithecus blacki did not in fact become extinct, and continues to exist as the Sasquatch and the Yeti. Gigantopithecus blacki could have crossed the Bering Land Bridge, the same way humans are thought to have entered the New World (Geoffrey Bourne, 1975, cited in Ciochon et al., 1990). So far, though there have been many alleged sightings, no indisputable physical evidence has been recovered. One is led to suspect that the question of Sasquatch (and related entities) is more for comparative mythology, cultural anthropology, or psychology, since an actual creature the size of Gigantopithecus blacki existing in numbers sufficient to qualify as a breeding population would not only leave physical remains, but would have an observable effect on their environment. An old Sherpa once observed: "There is a yeti in the back of everyone's mind; only the blessed are not haunted by it."SOURCE: Gigantopithecus 1 Gigantopithecus has an interesting history in the scientific world. It was first described by the German paleontologist Ralph von Koenigswald based on a single tooth found at a Chinese apothecary’s shop in 1935. Many more fossilized bits and pieces of this creature have since been found — but still, the sum total of Gigantopithecus remains consists of three jaw bones (a.k.a. mandibles), and hundreds of teeth. SOURCE: Gigantopithecus 2
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The most commonly heard argument against the Bigfoot-Giganto hypothesis is that "we should have found their bones in North America by now..." This argument is, in fact, weak when one considers that very few remains of Gigantos have ever been found in Asia, where they were much more abundant. Tens of thousands of years of Gigantos' accepted existence in Asia would have produced literally millions of Giganto skeletons, yet the volume of collected remains from Asia is so small that the entire collection could fit easily in one suitcase. SOURCE: The Bigfoot-Giganto Theory Related Links:
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An unsolved Mystery in Laetoli, Africa ..
In 1976, members of a team led by Mary Leakey discovered the fossilized footprints of human ancestors in Laetoli, Tanzania, Africa. The footprints were formed 3.5 million years ago when at least two individuals walked over wet volcanic ash. Problem, the timeline for human
evolution understood
by all the leading archeologists does not allow for
modern humans, who
would have left prints formed like this, to have
been alive 1 million years
ago, let alone 3.5 MYA
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