So in 2012 Sykes and his colleague Michel Sartori of the Museum of Zoology in Lausanne, Switzerland, posted a call for hair and other samples thought to be from yetis, Bigfoot or any other «cryptid» species unknown to science.
Previous genetic analyses of a couple of «yeti» hairsamples collected in India and Bhutan suggested that a stretch of their mitochondrial DNA resembled that of polar bears.