I hope not too 5th Hemisphere,
It sort of reminds me of the "yeti" hairs found by the guide(sound familiar?)of a group of scientists searching in Bhutan for the Yeti.
The hairs are still unidentified in terms of DNA!
They possibly come from a new species of some kind:
"British scientists on the trail of the Yeti have found some of the best evidence yet for the existence of the mythical Himalayan creature —
a sample of hair that has proved impossible to identify.
Genetic tests on the hair, which was gathered from a tree in Bhutan, have failed to match its DNA to that of another animal. The findings, which have
surprised sceptical researchers, raise the strong possibility that the sample belongs to an as yet undiscovered species.
In Bhutan, an expedition team was led by an “official Yeti-hunter” to a forest in the eastern part of the country, where he was convinced that an
animal was at large. “He told us that he had found evidence of the Yeti in the hollow of a cedar tree,” Rob McCall, a zoologist who was part of
the expedition, said. Dr McCall’s team removed strands of hair from the tree and returned to Britain to have them analysed."
originally from "the times" UK newspaper,but this quote is from a cached re post of the story:
www.bfro.net...
There was a TV program about this finding as I recall.
Strange how it always seems to be the guide who finds the "evidence" though!
