The Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London has a large number of human and animal species, which have been collected from all over the world. Edinburgh Zoo genetic experts have been able to crack the mystery from one of those specimens named Yeti Finger.

It was untouched since the last 50 years. But now, it has got revealed that it is none but a part of oversized human hand. Its DNA size revealed its identity but its parent range is yet to be known.

Senior Scientist at the Zoological Society of Scotland in Edinburgh, Dr. Rob Jones said, “It's very similar to existing human sequences from China and that region of Asia but we don't have enough resolution to be confident of a racial identification”.

This giant black curled up finger was given to the museum by Primatologist Prof. Osman William Hill. But, former explorer and mountaineer Peter Byrne was the first one to find the finger in Nepalese Monastery, and later handed it to Prof. Hill.

Byrne, now 85, shared that in 1958, he went to Himalayas, with his team, where he visited the Pangboche Temple. He found people talking in Nepalese, which he knew. While having a conversation with them, they talked about a hand which they tucked in the temple and called it a lucky mascot for them.

When he looked the hand, he decided that it was something which he has to take back to London. They did not allow him to get it. So he asked for one finger and somehow, they agreed to it. With the help of his old friend, James Stewart, he got the finger which he later gave to Professor Hill.