DNA Reveals the Yeti Is Actually a Bunch of Bears
Ancient legend meets modern genetics.
by Sarah Zhang
Nov 28, 2017
3 minutes
In the fall of 2013, Charlotte Lindqvist got a call from a film company making an Animal Planet documentary about the yeti, the mythical apelike creature that roams the Himalayas. So, not the kind of thing scientists usually like to mess with. “Friends or colleagues were saying, ‘Oh, watch out. Don’t get into this whole area,’” she recalls with a laugh. But she said yes.
Lindqvist said yes because she is a geneticist who studies
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