'Yeti Finger' Mystery Solved

A blackened, curled, oversized finger, long claimed to belong to a yeti, has been identified as human , confirmation being through DNA tests.

The amazing relic that caught the interest of scientists in 2008 had got a long nail , was 3.5 inches long and almost an inch thick at its widest part Since decades it was placed in the Royal College of Surgeons' Hunterian Museum in London.

William Charles Osman Hill, a primatologist (Scientists who study both living and extinct primates in their natural habitats and in laboratories by conducting field studies and experiments in order to understand aspects of their evolution and behaviour),had labelled the box containing finger as "Yeti's finger."(The Yeti or Abominable Snowman is an ape-like cryptid said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal, and Tibet)

But DNA analysis performed at the Zoological Society of Scotland in Edinburgh proved that Hill was wrong.
"We found human DNA," the zoo's genetics expert, Rob Ogden, told the BBC.

"It wasn't too surprising, but it was obviously slightly disappointing that you hadn't discovered something brand-new.
"Human was what we were expecting, and human is what we got," he concluded.

References: Wikipedia, Discovery News