It doesn’t look like Big Foot, but a mysterious hairless creature discovered in China and dubbed an “oriental yeti” will undergo DNA testing.

Hunters in a remote wooded area in Sichuan Province trapped the unidentified beast after locals reported a bear sighting — but what they found was not a bear.

“It looks a bit like a bear but it doesn’t have any fur and it has a tail like a kangaroo,” one hunter, Lu Chin, told the Times of London. “It also does not sound like a bear — it has a voice like a cat and it is calling all the time — perhaps it is looking for the rest of its kind or maybe it’s the last one.”
An unidentified animal in a cage, Sichuan Province, China

The animal has been shipped to Beijing, where scientists will perform DNA tests. Meanwhile, experts are already trying to predict the results.

According to Loren Coleman, a cryptozoologist who has written 17 books on mysterious animals and legends like Bigfoot, the “oriental yeti” is not a yeti at all, but likely a kind of civet, a small carnivorous animal akin to the mongoose. (Read More)