Thus a legend was born. AN ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN! Micah Hanks is a writer, podcaster, and researcher whose interests cover a variety of subjects. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. Yeti, Sasquatch, and the Neanderthal Enigma" (1983, Thames and Hudson), researcher Myra Shackley offers the following description, reported by two hikers in 1942 who saw "two black specks moving across the snow about a quarter mile below them." From that research the conclusion was that the Asiatic black bear, when about two years old, spends much time in trees to avoid attack by larger male bears on the ground ('ground bears').

Rawicz said: “They were doing nothing but move around slowly together, occasionally stopping to look around them like people admiring a view. (20) Scientists depict that it might be a big bear type or an orangutan like monkey creature with fur covered. At certain gaits, bears place the hindfoot partly over the imprint of the forefoot, thus making a very large imprint that looks deceptively like an enormous human footprint positioned in the opposite direction.

Though there are contrary about its existence and proved elements against it, the scientific community has started Abominable snowman as a legend.

These flattened footprint-like indentations were attributed to erosion and subsequent widening of the original footprint by wind and particles. To complete this explanation, Taylor also located a never-before published photograph in the archives of the Royal Geographical Society, taken in 1950 by Eric Shipton, that included scratches that are clearly bear nail marks.[79]. It was found in 1983.British museum confirmed about the identification of those foot prints. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Alexander the Great demanded to see a Yeti when he conquered the Indus Valley in 326 B.C.

[78], In 2017, Daniel C. Taylor published a comprehensive analysis of the century-long Yeti literature, giving added evidence to the (Ursus thibetanus) explanation building on the initial Barun Valley discoveries. Yeti: a … Bigfoot, Nessie & the Kraken: Cryptozoology Quiz. Britannica does not review the converted text.

Seen in profile, the back of the head was a straight line from the crown into the shoulders.” Whatever the creatures were, Rawicz was sure on one thing: “We decided unanimously that we were examining a type of creature of which we had no previous experience in the wild, in zoos or in literature.”, Rawicz considered the possibility of mistaken identity, but was forced to dismiss such an explanation, although he did make some interesting comments on the bear-like qualities of the animals: “It would have been easy to have seen them waddle off at a distance and dismissed them as either bear or big ape of the Orangutan species. [69][70][71][72] However, the Yeti is generally described as bipedal, and most scientists believe Gigantopithecus to have been quadrupedal, and so massive that, unless it evolved specifically as a bipedal ape (like Oreopithecus and the hominids), walking upright would have been even more difficult for the now extinct primate than it is for its extant quadrupedal relative, the orangutan.

Take a minute to check out all the enhancements! Abominable Snowman, Tibetan Yeti, mythical monster resembling a large, hairy, apelike being supposed to inhabit the Himalayas at about the level of the snow line. Reddish-brown in color and bipedal, it was busy grubbing up roots and occasionally emitted a loud high-pitched cry.".