Sunday, October 20, 2013

Blog 15: Article



"I Don't Think You're Ready For This Yeti"
                         - Time Magazine


Noah Rayman of Time magazine published the article, “I Don’t Think You’re Ready for This Yeti”, on the seventeenth of October 2013. In this interesting and unique article, Rayman educates and informs the audience about a rumored animal that might be real, due to certain studies that have been done. The whispered Himalayan beast, which is also referred to as the Yeti, could be related in some way to the living species of polar bears, according to a British scientist. This scientist, through his conducted research, “…found a DNA match between alleged Yetis and an ancient polar bear.”, as Rayman wrote in the article. Rayman also includes a few words said by the Oxford University genetics professor, Bryan Sykes. “I think this bear, which nobody has seen alive…may still be there and may have quite a lot of polar bear in it.” Sykes, of Oxford, had also conducted a test himself regarding DNA from hairs of two unidentified animals that have added to the myth. One was a beast which is killed by hunters in India, and the other one was a single hair found in a bamboo forest in Bhutan. After submitting the genetic information into an animal data base, Sykes found a hundred percent match to an ancient polar bear jawbone found in Norway that goes back a few thousand years.
                All this new information found day by day through scientists truly challenges one in understanding all that the Earth has to offer and what new secrets it may hold.

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