I told my son there's no such thing as a fair fight with something that big. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
On a somewhat related and completely serious note; I saw a week or two ago that scientists had successfully sequenced DNA from hair samples of an alleged Yeti in the Himalayas. The DNA was not from a primate but of a species of bear thought to be extinct for 40,000 years. Not as cool as a yeti, but still pretty cool. Just shows that big mammals can hide very successfully in these remote areas. So OP, your son may get the opportunity someday...
And just how did they have DNA from a 40,000 year old extinct bear to compare and confirm the new sample? Sorry, but that entire charade was simply organized science flipping the bird at the sasquatch community. Hair samples can be screened and identified for bear through a microscope, if they had screened it and recognized it as bear then why spend a few thousand running DNA sequencing on it...it was a laughable farce.
I dunno...maybe a frozen sample from a glacier? Maybe from tar pit preserved specimens? I wasn't there. What I do know is that they find frozen carcasses of paleolithic animals in Siberia and the Arctic all the time, so it's completely within reason. Maybe they looked at it under a microscope, said that looks like bear hair, but we better check. DNA tests don't cost hardly anything. Anyway, even if the samples came from a paleolithic bear; the results if anything only lend credence to the possibility that Squatches etc could possibly be out there running around. Bears are big fing mammals. Squatches, if they exist, are also big fing mammals. To have an "unknown" bear species running around the mountains totally supports the possibility that yetis (or whatever) are as well. Pretty hostile response to a fairly benign post.
I seen the episode awhile back! If i remember right a guy killed it years ago, wasnt sure what it was and had it mounted! They got the samples from the mount!
Exactly...I don't either and I don't think the scientists have any better grasp on the situation than we do unfortunately. Lol, I'm sorry you took it that way, clearly you read it with some tone that wasn't there from my end. It was just a question and a statement of my opinion...nothing more. Yeah, that was the source of the sample that was thought to be the sasquatch...but what I find curious is that the yhad some record of confirmed DNA from the extinct species of bear that lived 40,000 years ago to use as a source of confirmation for the newer sample. Stinks worse than a yeti...I think it's just BS.
