Yeti Legends Are Based on Real Animals, DNA Reveals

A femur bone from the decayed body of a purported Yeti found in a cave in Tibet. Biologist Charlotte Lindqvist tested DNA from the bone for Icon Films's "YETI OR NOT" TV special. Her analysis showed that the bone actually belonged to a Tibetan brown bear. Lindqvist is an associate professor of biological sciences at the University at Buffalo and a visiting associate professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

A Himalayan brown bear roams Deosai National Park in Pakistan.

This hair sample was said to have come from a Yeti that a Jesuit priest spotted in the mountains of Nepal in the 1950s.