The Sherpas call it Dzu-teh, translated "cattle bear" and is sometimes used to refer to the Himalayan brown bear. I am searching for the email for Bryan Sykes who discovered Yeti Bear DNA in 2013, a professor of human genetics at Oxford University England. Yeti sightings have remained constant for centuries. Over the years, the Yeti hasn't just been spotted from a distance — people in the Himalayas have collected bones, teeth, hair, feces, and more. Even the indigenous names of the Yeti reflect its mythological character. Last year, a team of researchers studied DNA from nine samples thought to be of the Yeti and concluded that those samples belong to native bear breeds.

Samples reportedly from yeti, also known as the abominable snowman, turned out to be from Himalayan brown bears or other native species. ... the Tibetan brown and Himalayan brown.

It is also known as the Tibetan brown bear, Horse bear, Himalayan blue bear, Himalayan snow bear, yak dhom (yak bear), and iha dhom (mountain bear).

The word Yeti is derived from Tibetan: གཡའ་དྲེད་, Wylie: g.ya' dred, ZYPY: Yachê, a compound of the words Tibetan: གཡའ་, Wylie: g.ya', ZYPY: ya "rocky", "rocky place" and (Tibetan: དྲེད་, Wylie: dred, ZYPY: chê) "bear".

The skin sample turned out to be from an Asian black bear, and the bone from a Tibetan brown bear. This brown bear subspecies Ursus arctos pruinosus was first classified in 1854 by English zoologist Edward Blyth.

It is one of the rarest subspecies of bear in the world, it is only known to exist through a small number of fur and bone samples. The new, detailed DNA evidence provides a real-world, biological origin for the Yeti, suggesting that local bears may have been the inspiration for stories of the terrifying creature. Now it is known that it is a white Yeti Bear. Canyon River Art - Unexplored Earth Eastern Tibet - The legend of the Tibet Yeti has existed for hundreds of years.

Yetis are real, they just also happen to be Himalayan brown bears. The Tibetan word Yeti is a compound word that roughly translates as "bear of a rocky place," while another Tibetan name Michê means "man bear." The Tibetan blue bear is one of the rarest bear subspecies in the world. The yeti (yet-teh; Sherpa: "that thing," "rock animal," or "small man-like animal") or the abominable snowman is a cryptid giant hominid reported primarily from the Himalayan mountains of Nepal, China, Bhutan and India, as well as much of central Asia including Russia and Mongolia. Now it is known that it is a white Yeti Bear. One came from an Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus), and the others came from two rare, local species — Tibetan and Himalayan brown bears.