Mystery AtlasBryan Sykes
A University of Oxford geneticist who led a 2014 global DNA study of hair samples attributed to Yeti, Bigfoot, and other purported anomalous primates.
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People
Bryan Sykes was used to analyse Zana of Tkhina — Sykes's 2013 DNA testing of Zana's descendants and a tooth from her son Khwit found her ancestry to be entirely Sub-Saharan African, not Neanderthal or unknown-hominid.
Organisations & Programmes
Bryan Sykes is frequently compared to Trent University Wildlife Forensic DNA Laboratory — Both applied forensic hair-DNA identification to a disputed cryptid-survival claim, Sykes's 2014 global survey for the Yeti, Bigfoot, and Almas, and Trent University's 2005 test for the Fiordland moose.
Creatures & Figures
- Bigfootmodern legend from 1958; older regional traditions
Bryan Sykes was used to analyse Bigfoot — Sykes's 2014 global survey tested hair samples attributed to both Bigfoot and the Yeti; the North American samples were identified as bear, horse, cow, or other known animals.
Bryan Sykes was used to analyse Yeti.
Bryan Sykes was used to analyse Almas — Sykes's 2014 global hair-DNA survey tested eight samples attributed to the almasty, all submitted from Russia; every sample matched Eurasian brown bear, horse, or cattle DNA, with no unknown primate identified.
Explored on these pages
Does the Almas Exist? Central Asia's Wild Man Legend
Does the Almas exist? The Mongolian and Caucasus wild man legend, Boris Porshnev's Soviet research, and what Bryan Sykes's DNA testing found.
Does the Yeti Exist?
Does the Yeti exist? The 1951 Shipton footprint photo, Bryan Sykes's 2014 DNA study, and why most researchers now favour the Tibetan blue bear explanation.