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National Science Foundation A century after Western explorers first crossed the dangerous landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have successfully deployed a self-guided robot that uses ground-penetrating radar to map deadly crevasses hidden in ice-covered terrains. Deployment of the robot--dubbed Yeti--could make Arctic and Antarctic explorations safer by revealing unseen fissures buried beneath ice and snow that could...

[Listen To The Audio Evidence] Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Not since Roger Patterson’s 1967 encounter has there been so much hype over the possible discovery of Sasquatch, better known as Bigfoot. In the deep woods of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest there could be a very real Bigfoot lurking in the night, belting out its blood-curdling serenades to all those who wish to lend a listening ear. And one local resident has garnered...

Lee Rannals for RedOrbit.com Wolfson College is taking a giant leap forward by attempting to discover the legendary Yeti through analyzing samples of teeth and hair. The college, which is part of Oxford University, is asking for Yeti samples so it can use the latest DNA technology to analyze the fabled beast's genome against other species in the world. "As part of a larger enquiry into the genetic relationship between our own species Homo sapiens and other hominids, we invite...

A team of Russian and American scientists are planning what to some seem like a fairy tale adventure; a hunt for the elusive Abominable Snowman. Igor Burtsev, the head of the 'Yeti institute' at Kemerovo State University, will lead the team to search for the creature in the Kuzbass coal mining area of Kemerovo.  He believes there are around 30 Yetis that live in that area. This is not the first expedition in Russia to try and discover what some believe to be a mythical creature....

Kemerovo in western Siberia announced its plans to open "a scientific institute for researchers to study yetis," AFP reports. The final decision will be made later this year after it hosts the international conference on yetis in the town of Tashtagol, states the regional government's education and science department.Despite opposition, the administration of the Russian coal-mining region of Kemerovo says, "Organizing an institute or a scientific center would be a logical continuation of...

Scientists and explorers from China are seeking international help to launch a widespread hunt for the country's answers to Sasquatch, known as the "Yeren," or "wild man." At least 400 people have reported sightings of the Yeren -- a half-man, half-ape creature -- in a remote, mountainous region in the central province of Hubei, according to state news agency Xinhua. After several expeditions were conducted in the 70s and 80s - with findings of hair, footprints, excrement and a nesting area...

Japanese climbers said on Tuesday they had found footprints on a mountain in western Nepal they think belonged to an abominable snowman or Yeti.Kuniaki Yagihara, a member of the Yeti Project Japan, said they identified three footprints that looked like that of human beings in Kathmandu. The group returned from the mountain with photographs of the footprints.However, the climbers, equipped with long-lens cameras, video cameras and telescopes, said that they did not see or take any photographs...

By DAMIEN HENDERSON For bigfoot hunters forced to contend with scraps of blurry photos and hotly disputed sightings of the mighty beast, yesterday marked an epochal moment. The body of a seven-foot, ape-like creature recovered from woodlands in northern Georgia, a south-eastern US state, was, its captors claimed, final proof of the existence of the elusive Sasquatch, the mythical creature which holds a similar status to the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. Although details of the story were...

By Michael Sragow, The Baltimore Sun Aug. 1--(C-) Three yetis, a yak and a couple of yuks. That's all you get in the way of original entertainment in The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, an extravagant and frenetic third entry in the franchise about adventurer Rick O'Connell ( Brendan Fraser) and his continuing fights with the embalmed yet undead. It's like an Indiana Jones movie without rhythm, wit or personality, just a desperate, headlong pace. It does have a sense of the ridiculous...

By Michael Sragow, The Baltimore Sun Aug. 1--Three yetis, a yak and a couple of yuks. That's all you get in the way of original entertainment in The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, an extravagant and frenetic third entry in the franchise about adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) and his continuing fights with the embalmed yet undead. It's like an Indiana Jones movie without rhythm, wit or personality, just a desperate, headlong pace. It does have a sense of the ridiculous (one...