{"id":4340,"date":"2010-08-24T00:24:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T18:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:52:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:52:01","slug":"scientists-extract-dna-from-mystery-ape-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/08\/scientists-extract-dna-from-mystery-ape-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"SCIENTISTS EXTRACT DNA FROM MYSTERY APE HAIR!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Paranormalist<\/a> has reported that a team of Danish scientists who have been analyzing hair samples brought back from Indonesia by a British expedition last autumn have found some potentially world-shattering results.<\/p>\n

Expedition leader Adam Davies has been to Sumatra five times since 1999, in search of the fabled HAIRY HOMINID<\/a> known as the ORANG PENDEK — an upright walking ape from Sumatra, which is only known from eyewitness reports.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>On a previous expedition in 2001, prints and hair were found, and subsequently examined by world famous hair analysis expert Professor Hans Brunner and by Dr. David Chivers of Cambridge University. They independently concluded that they were from an unknown primate closely related to the two species of orangutan.<\/p>\n

Last weekend at the annual conference of the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ<\/a>), the world\u2019s largest mystery animal research group, Danish scientist Lars Thomas announced the results so far. The preliminary DNA analysis of the hairs appears to resemble that of an orangutan. According to Thomas:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 the significance is quite enormous\u00a0 no matter what the result is basically, because if it turns out to be orangutan this proves that there is orangutan in a part of Sumatra several hundred kilometers from the nearest population of orangutan. If it turns out to be a primate that looks like an orang-utan but isn\u2019t, it\u2019s an even greater discovery because that proves that there is another great ape living in Indonesia.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Freeman, the zoological director of the CFZ, has been to Sumatra on three occasions, the hairs in question being found on the last expedition in September 2009. On this particular trip were Adam Davies, Richard Freeman, Chris Clark, Dave Archer plus their guides Sahar, John, Dally and Doni found the hairs on a small sapling about 3 feet off the ground. \u00a0According to Freeman:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the hair turns out to be from a new species, it would be the first confirmed upright walking ape which then throws an interesting light upon other reported bipedals like the yeti, etc.\u00a0 It may also help tell us how bipedalism in humans first developed.\u00a0 Also, the fact that such a large animal was found on an island roughly the same size as Britain could be significant as it may also mean that there could be other large animals still to be found across the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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