In 1980, a Mongolian government employee came across a dead body while working in Bulgan.
At first, he thought it was a human body. But when he got a closer look, he knew different.
"I approached and saw a hairy corpse of a robust humanlike creature dried and half-buried by sand. I had never seen such a humanlike being before covered by camel-colour brownish-yellow short hairs and I recoiled, although in my native land in Sinkiang I had seen many dead men killed in battle . . . The dead thing was not a bear or ape and at the same time it was not a man like Mongol or Kazakh or Chinese and Russian. The hairs of its head were longer than on its body. The skin was darkened and shrivelled like the hide of a dead camel".
In 1992, the first serious expedition was launched to investigate Almas in the Tien Shan region. It was led by Russian anatomist and mountain climber Dr. Marie-Jeanne Koffman. The team was a joint French-Russian venture. The team spent several weeks in the region, collecting over 500 eyewitness accounts which included descriptions of almas families. However, the expedition did not see any almas themselves and were thereby unable to capture any.
They did return with some droppings and hairs that locals told them came from almas. When analyzed, the hairs could not be matched to any known animal and were determined to have possibly come from some sort of primate. The droppings contained food remains that showed the creature they came from was omnivorous. The shape and texture was unlike those of a bear which was the only known omnivore living in that area.
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