Bigfoot, Yeti: Meet Science

What type of physical evidence did scientists request from the public to study 'anomalous primates'?

• Photographs and videos

• Eyewitness accounts

• Hair and fur samples

• Footprint casts

What type of genetic material did researchers extract from the collected samples to identify the animals?

• Nuclear DNA

• Mitochondrial DNA

• RNA

• Proteins

Most of the hair samples from the Western United States, thought to be from Bigfoot, were actually identified as coming from which animals?

• Humans and other primates

• Wolves and coyotes

• Common mammals like bears, dogs, and cows

• Deer and elk

Two of the Yeti hair samples from Bhutan and India surprisingly matched the DNA of what type of animal?

• A modern brown bear

• A previously unknown primate

• A 40,000-year-old fossil of a polar bear

• A type of goat