The discussions revolve around the revelation that Zana was a human with East African ancestry, supported by genetic studies and DNA sequencing, which challenged the myth of her being a cryptid like an Almasty. Participants use words like 'fascinating,' 'support,' and 'reveal' to express admiration for scientific insights and to emphasize the importance of uncovering her true origins, highlighting a shared interest in dispelling myths through research.
AgreementModerate agreement
Most discussions acknowledge the study's findings, supporting the idea that Zana was human and had African origins, with some referencing DNA evidence and genetic studies.
InterestHigh interest
The group demonstrates high curiosity, referencing detailed genetic papers and commenting on the implications of the DNA analysis, indicating strong engagement with the subject.
EngagementModerate engagement
Comments include sharing related videos, discussing the broader context of cryptozoology, and connecting genetic findings to cultural tales, showing a moderate depth of involvement.
ImpactModerate impact
The discussions seem to reinforce scientific understanding and challenge previous misconceptions about Zana, indicating a modest but meaningful influence on perceptions of cryptids and human history.
Abstract in brief
The text describes the story of Zana, a woman from the 19th century in the South Caucasus, who was captured living wild and was thought to resemble a cryptic hominid or "Almasty," similar to Bigfoot, due to her unusual appearance and behavior.
Researchers sequenced the genomes of Zana's skeleton and her son Khwit to establish their relationship and analyze her genetic origins; the findings confirmed she was her son’s mother and likely had East African ancestry.
The study suggests that Zana may have had a genetic disorder like congenital hypertrichosis, which could explain her distinctive physical traits and behavior, highlighting how prejudices of the time led to misconceptions about her as a cryptid.
Loooong overdue 5th episode of Saurian Cinema is now live! It's my longest video ever! A much-deeper-than-intended dive into dinosaur cryptid films: https://t.co/FfEa7GbcQd https://t.co/CJ17irZVgv
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Cold Crash Pictures
@coldcrashpics · X
"Saurian Cinema: Cryptozoology in Film" now has English subtitles: https://t.co/1CcUOUe5Mf
Mar 5, 2024 · 31 likes · 2 shares · 3,448 followersView post →
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Matt Frank ➡️ Tokyo Comic Con Dec 5-7
@spankzilla85 · X
Y’all should really watch his new vid on Cryptid Cinema!
https://t.co/LzHUHgKdMY
Mar 1, 2024 · 20 likes · 4 shares · 40,223 followersView post →
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Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding
@MhsSinding · X
Just out - The genomic origin of Zana.
She was not an Almasty (#Bigfoot in the Caucasus).
Our study intends, both to reveal the true #human nature of Zana and grant her and her descendants' remains the dignity they deserve.
Good work @ashotmarg2004 !
https://t.co/37VMKTckxQ
Jun 15, 2021 · 11 likes · 381 followersView post →
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Fight Like An Animal
@arnold_schroder · X
Next episode hands down the craziest yet. Illustrating the radical phenotypic plasticity associated with any genotype, and thus the latent behavioral potentials humans possess. Doing this with a Yeti hypothesis. https://t.co/NFy4dXdtPl
Feb 2, 2023 · 10 likes · 4 shares · 1,076 followersView post →
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Debbie Kennett
@DebbieKennett · X
Cryptozoologists claimed that Zana the "wild woman of the Caucasus" was of non-human origin. Genome sequencing of the putative skeleton of Zana and her son Khwit have rejected that hypothesis once and for all. https://t.co/Wgof1nymUd #cryptozoology
The story of Zana, a woman from the 19th century in the South Caucasus, was widely believed to resemble a cryptic hominid. Genetic analysis of her skeleton and son confirms her East African origins and suggests a…
Russian villagers captured a female Sasquatch, raising questions about Bigfoot's existence and genetic origins. The story of Zana, a woman with unusual traits, suggests a possible link to East African ancestry and…
@BrunoRataque Aproveitando também pra recomendar esse vídeo. Ele começa como um review de filmes e termina como uma crítica à criptozoologia.
https://t.co/eek74WPpP0
Abominable science: The weird cross bewtween cryptozoology, dinosaurs and movies
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Ciencia abominable: La rara cruza entre criptozoología, dinosaurios y películas
#dinosaurs #cryptids #popculture
youtu.be/62daivlrxLU?...
@milad_leo @SaintNubia https://t.co/S834XnVAT0
DNA from a female slave from the Caucasus supports such an origin. Her mix of Dinka and Yoruba like ancestry would fit Southern Chadian populations.
May 6, 2025 · 2 likes · 1,549 followersView post →
Finally, this video from @coldcrashpics.bsky.social is a fun and fascinating look at cryptid movies. There’s an absolutely fascinating but horrible digression in this looking at some truly awful attitudes from cryptozoology types and their Bigfoot bullshit: youtu.be/62daivlrxLU?...
Quem tiver tempo e souber inglês recomendo muito esse vídeo (e de quebra esse canal). O cara foi fazer um vídeo sobre filmes de criptozoologia e acabou fazendo um sobre os podres dessa área.
https://t.co/T7bJ3HthFp
@GANJARAMBO420 Speaking of which, did you know the Russians had a pet female Bigfoot? Or halfbreed Bigfoot? Her name was Zana. She was captured by villagers back in the late 19th century. She even had a few kids, 1 we have a photo of, just drawings of her. Fascinating https://t.co/fgNqwpgNtq
Les recomiendo que vean este video sobre como la criptozoologia, la dedicada a los dinosaurios específicamente, ha sido retratada en el cine.
Lo mejor? Con las escusas de ver esas películas se puede hablar de esa disciplina en el mundo real.
https://t.co/kXjlLk7yga
Mar 24, 2024 · 1 like · 1,367 followersView post →
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✨ bone of my bone, and breath of my breath ✨
@rennisaint1 · X
stuff like this is why i love youtube https://t.co/AO7OJ9zGH4
Saw this video, I felt it was quite good, got some fun ideas for my next non-Twin Peaks discord watch parties
Btw we watch Twin Peaks and movies on Thursdays in my discord. A perk of joining the Game_Goblin’s Goblin Gang community
youtu.be/62daivlrxLU?...
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❄️Shawnna❄️
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Josh Url he/him
@2REDJUrl · X
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ariana ☄
@arianaamarie_ · X
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Violent Delight
@OfYouWeather · X
RT @coldcrashpics: Loooong overdue 5th episode of Saurian Cinema is now live! It's my longest video ever! A much-deeper-than-intended dive…
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Carter Baizen
@rachellacroixs · X
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Wild World
@TheWildWorldYT · X
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Libby Sheffield
@mslibbyshef · X
RT @coldcrashpics: Loooong overdue 5th episode of Saurian Cinema is now live! It's my longest video ever! A much-deeper-than-intended dive…
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Cold Crash Pictures
@coldcrashpics · X
Loooong overdue 5th episode of Saurian Cinema is now live! It's my longest video ever! A much-deeper-than-intended dive into dinosaur cryptid films: https://t.co/FfEa7GbcQd https://t.co/CJ17irZVgv
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LionJurassic
@LionJurassic · X
Babe date night is at home. New @coldcrashpics Saurian Cinema video just dropped!
https://t.co/CorpWx9sQE
@wildlifeco1 Here's the study. The photo is apparently an artistic representation
https://t.co/VEtrxRJPC3
Feb 7, 2024 · 4 likes · 14,322 followersView post →
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Legendary Cryptids
@BestCryptids · X
@NoMore171623 @AThrillosopher They ended up tracing it to haplogroup L2b1b
https://t.co/VEtrxRJPC3 https://t.co/vMb0o5N8cP
Feb 7, 2024 · 4 likes · 14,322 followersView post →
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Legendary Cryptids
@BestCryptids · X
@coldcrashpics Sykes never published them in a paper, only in a book. Later studies on Zana's genome do cite the book
https://t.co/VEtrxRJPC3
Dec 13, 2023 · 2 likes · 14,322 followersView post →
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sean
@DilettanteryPod · X
@conzmoleman https://t.co/tPzVAZubSh
Dec 9, 2023 · 2 likes · 18,439 followersView post →
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Woodland Princess
@AllisonFluer · X
@SRTtoZ proof? oh yea thats reasonable. i mean i think stuff like this is really cool. you may enjoy it. https://t.co/eYaiaicHzL this russian village claimed to have taken a sasquatch as a slave and she had several children that looked human and were integrated into the community. crazy
@PapistB Here, recent study too
https://t.co/VEtrxRJPC3
May 18, 2023 · 2 likes · 14,322 followersView post →
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Alan Darwin VanArsdale
@barnowlcj · X
@shi_huang5 A process similar to Homo heidelbergensis adapting to cold. The Zana people are well reported over much time their whole genome is mostly East African their cold adaptive traits are MUCH older and Eurasian. https://t.co/NiAeyCcVxf.
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Fight Like An Animal
@arnold_schroder · X
Next episode hands down the craziest yet. Illustrating the radical phenotypic plasticity associated with any genotype, and thus the latent behavioral potentials humans possess. Doing this with a Yeti hypothesis. https://t.co/NFy4dXdtPl
Feb 2, 2023 · 10 likes · 4 shares · 1,076 followersView post →
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Fight Like An Animal
@arnold_schroder · X
He turned out to be wrong. More extensive DNA analysis (including of Zana herself; Sykes only had access to offspring) reveals genetic markers that developed in humans ~25,000 years ago. Zana is simply human. https://t.co/S5xSoWgkqV)%20craniometric%20and%20mtDNA%20analyses.
Nov 22, 2022 · 3 likes · 1,076 followersView post →
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OKULTRA moving to @0k_ultra
@0kuItra · X
@RFargmar @roderickgraham Afro Abkhazians meanwhile are a surprising human isolate in most unlikely of places and despite several centuries of living in, well, Russian Caucasus have substantially eschewed their Russian and local Caucasus Nations peers as potential mates ref 10.1002/ggn2.10051
in 1971 the grave of her descendant a man named Kwhit was located and his dna was sequenced. And Kwhit via Zana was found to have Dna that matches people in eastern Africa. Zana unfortunately could not speak and so could not say how she came to be there
https://t.co/6WkVqdYE0r https://t.co/EsfZ8NZ5iW
@ASocraticknight @mysterydondero @PaesurBiey @jushere4thelols @takeyourmedsnow @MollyWop9 @BamaDengTankie @kay_enne @nullableIn0 @njpc1888 @TshepoMashao6 @LearnArtifacts @TheKnowiedgeHub @EruditionLife I had not read the newer genetics paper. I have to concede Zana was from unusual Ottoman slave stock and did not have any affinities to ancient Eurasians. https://t.co/bOgqAQ7aT9
@tarbosaur @CryptoLoren @ThompsonsPoint @VisitPortland @visitmaine Anyway, credit to Bourtsev, he is still publishing articles at over 80 years of age. https://t.co/CWYxRMx86D
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Massilani Lab
@Diyendo · X
The genomic origin of Zana of Abkhazia https://t.co/xLDd3aQh5V
Cryptozoologists claimed that Zana the "wild woman of the Caucasus" was of non-human origin. Genome sequencing of the putative skeleton of Zana and her son Khwit have rejected that hypothesis once and for all. https://t.co/Wgof1nymUd #cryptozoology
Marie-Jeanne Koffmann recently died, so are all the founders of hominology dead? Igor Bourtsev (aged 81) is still alive and recently co-authored a paper on Zana. https://t.co/CWYxRMx86D https://t.co/ch1TS71rQX
Just out - The genomic origin of Zana.
She was not an Almasty (#Bigfoot in the Caucasus).
Our study intends, both to reveal the true #human nature of Zana and grant her and her descendants' remains the dignity they deserve.
Good work @ashotmarg2004 !
https://t.co/37VMKTckxQ
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