article_snippet: A key piece of evidence that suggested many of the sightings were due to an unknown type of bear living in the Himalaya has now been ruled out.
article_snippet: Writing in the journal ZooKeys, Dr Gutiérrez and Dr Ronald Pine, a zoologist at the University of Kansas said: 'The molecular data obtained and analyzed by Sykes are not informative enough to suggest the possibility that a taxonomically unrecognized type of bear exists in the Himalayas.
article_snippet: We emphasize that no evidence has ever been presented to suggest that an unknown bear species occurs in the Himalayas .
article_snippet: As part of no evidence has ever been presented to suggest that an unknown bear species occurs in the Himalayas study, Dr Gutiérrez and Dr Pine examined how gene sequences can reveal the relationships between the six present-day species of bears.
article_snippet: Dr Gutiérrez and Dr Pine found one sequence from an Asian Black Bear from Japan indicated that it was not closely related to the mainland members of that species.
highlights_snippet: Latest research dismisses theories that yeti is an unknown species of bear .
  