Yeti, an ape-like cryptid taller than an average human, has been a mystery for researchers for a long time. Earlier, some researchers had claimed that they discovered the Himalayan species of bear. They carried out a mitochondrial DNA sequence to analyze the fossil hair. They found that the samples were similar to fossil of 400,000 years old polar bear.

Now, a group of researchers has challenged the previous discovery. Reanalysis of the hair showed that hair belongs to a polar bear that lives in Alaska. According to the researchers, due to genetic difference in brown bear, it was difficult to connect the hair sample with bears.

The researchers said that the hair samples that were found earlier do not belong to a mysterious extinct animal or Yeti, but to a brown bear that lives in the Himalayas. Eliécer Gutiérrez, author of the new study, said that there is no doubt that the hair samples belong to a brown bear of Himalayas. According to Gutiérrez, the research team has reanalyzed the samples that were studied last year by Bryan Sykes, a geneticist who collected the hair samples from the Himalayas.

According to the previous research, one of the samples belonged to an animal that was used to walk on its hind legs about 40 years ago in the northern region of India. After analyzing the samples, Sykes and his research team said that the other hair sample belonged to an ancient species of polar bear that used to live in Norway.

After reanalyzing the samples, Gutiérrez said that the research team does not believe the previous theory because Sykes and his team used only a fragment of the genetic sample to determine the origin of the species. According to the team, the hair samples analyzed by Sykes and his team belong to the common brown bear.