Bigfoot?

Yesterday The Blaze reported that scientists analyzing hair samples from different sources around the world found something interesting. Periodically we hear about a new species of animal discovered deep in the ocean or somewhere in a remote forest–they found DNA that closely resembled something very old.

The article reports:

Using a rigorous decontamination method and conducting RNA sequencing to identify species origin from the hair samples, the team found a few samples were closely related to a prehistoric polar bear. All the other samples were from known mammals that are still living, like cows, dogs, sheep and more.

According to the study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, some of the samples were a 100 percent match to the DNA recovered from a more than 40,000-year-old Pleistocene fossil of Ursus maritimus. This finding, the study suggests, could mean that descendants this prehistoric polar bear could still be living in the Himalayas.

The bottom line here is simple–we don’t know everything we think we know. I am going to continue watching “Finding Bigfoot” and loving it!