An expedition mounted by the Indian Army has released a set of images of what they believe to be footprints of the enigmatic Yeti, a large ape-like creature with white fur that is said to inhabit the Himalayan mountains. “For the first time, an #IndianArmy Moutaineering Expedition Team has sitedread more

In the summer of 1850 hunters in the Caucasus encountered a strange creature running naked and six and a half feet tall. They chased it down and captured it, returning it to T’khina. At first, she was violent, but she soon became used to domestic life. She was called Zana and was able to do simple household chores. She became a servant in an aristocratic household and lived until 1890.

Professor Brian Sykes, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, has studied Zana and says that her DNA indicates that she belonged to a human subspecies and was not a modern human. He found that, while her genetic background is African, she is not related to any group now present in modern Africa.
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