Last year, Bryan Sykes, genetics professor at Oxford, discovered that hair samples that he and his team analyzed were not of Yeti or Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas. After that, Sykes said that the samples belonged to an extinct species of Polar bear. Now, a group of scientists have re-analyzed the hair samples and found that the samples do not belong to any extinct species of bear.

Eliecer Gutierrez, a scholar of the Smithsonian Institution, and Ronald Pine, from the University of Kansas and a researcher of the new study, said Sykes' claims were not true. While talking to NBC News, they said that after re-analyzing the hair samples, they discovered the samples belonged to brown bear that lives in Himalayan.

According to Live Science, Sykes and his team had also analyzed two kinds of hair samples collected from Bhutan and India. The hair samples resembled with genetic markers from a 40,000-year-old Norwegian polar bear fossil.

In the new study, Gutierrez got help from GenBank, the database of gene samples, and found the genetic sequence of the hair sample. After carefully examining the hair samples, Gutierrez and other researchers found that samples lacked a complete DNA sequence to finally decide that it was of the brown bear or Alaskan polar bear.

After the study, the researchers concluded that the samples were of a brown bear since polar bears do not live in the Himalayas. Sykes said that the new study is not acceptable. He said that the study conducted by Gutierrez and his team was ‘entirely statistical’. According to Sykes, explanation by Gutierrez could be right or it might not be.

Sykes said, “The only way to find the truth is to locate a living bear that has a matching 12S RNA and study some fresh samples from it”.