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A RUSSIAN region in Siberia has confidently proclaimed that its mountains are home to yetis after finding "indisputable proof" of the existence of the hairy beasts in an expedition.

The local administration of the Kemerovo region in the south of Siberia said in a statement on its website that footprints and possibly even hair samples belonging to the yeti were found on the research trip to its remote mountains. "During the expedition to the Azasskaya cave, conference participants gathered indisputable proof that the Shoria mountains are inhabited by the 'Snow Man'," the Kemerovo region administration said in a press release. The expedition was organised after Kemerovo's governor invited researchers from the United States, Canada, and several other countries to share their research and stories of encounters with the creature at a conference.

"They found his footprints, his supposed bed, and various markers with which the yeti marks his territory," the statement said. The collected "artifacts" will be analysed in a special laboratory, it said. Yetis, or Abominable Snowmen, are hairy ape-like creatures of popular myth, that are generally held to inhabit the Himalayas. But some believe Russia also holds a population of yetis, which it calls Snow Men, in remote areas of Siberia. Kemerovo region's Shoria is a sparsely populated territory in Western Siberia that has historically been a territory of coal and metal mining. The region, the administrative centre of Kuznetsk coal basin, has pursued the elusive Yeti for several years as it tries to develop tourism into its mostly industrial economy. Considering the latest findings, the region may "create a special research centre to study the Yeti" in the regional university and "create a journal" dedicated to the science of the Yeti, the administration's statement said.





THYLACINE FOOTPRINTS FOUND IN CAVE. SCIENTISTS have discovered the footprints of an extinct tiger in soft mud in Augusta's Jewel Cave, in the south west of Western Australia. Cave workers accidentally made the "extremely rare" find while taking water samples in a remote area of the cave. For the first time, images of the new Tasmanian tiger or thylacine footprints plus never-before-seen photographs of prints discovered nearly 20 years ago will be on display at the caves in Augusta from this Saturday. Striped like a tiger and with powerful jaws that opened up to an unusual 120 degrees, Tasmanian tigers were the size of a kelpie dog and one of only two marsupials the other a water opossum with pouches in both sexes. The man who made the discovery, caver and environment project manager for Augusta Margaret River Tourism Association Lindsay Hatcher said finding any type of footprint in a cave is extremely rare.


Footprints of the now extinct Tasmanian tiger or thylacine preserved in mud in Jewel Cave in the South-West. Picture credit: Augusta Margaret River Tourism Association Source: PerthNow

"Thylacines footprints have never been found in any other cave in WA and probably in any other cave in Australia," Mr Hatcher said. "They were found in soft mud, and if we were to stand on it now it would disintegrate. "In the 1960s we found the bones of a Tasmanian tiger right next to where we have just discovered the footprints, right next to where the animal had perished." The species hunted kangaroos across mainland Australia from about four million years ago until the 20th century, when hunting and the introduction of disease and dingos has been blamed for its demise. Mr Hatcher said scientists are reluctant to take castings of the new find for fear of ruining the prints. The last thylacine in captivity died on September 7, 1936.
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