Kodiak, Yup..
Posted on 02/08/2012 2:52:34 PM PST by Red Badger
A BEAST lurches through icy waters in a sighting a paranormal investigator thinks could prove woolly mammoths are not extinct after all.
The animal – thought to have mostly died out roughly 4,000 years ago – was apparently filmed wading through a river in the freezing wilds of Siberia.
The jaw-dropping footage was caught by a government-employed engineer last summer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia, it is claimed.
He filmed the elephant-sized creature as it struggled against the racing water.
Its hair matches samples recovered from mammoth remains regularly dug up from the permafrost in frozen Russia.
The official was reportedly in the area surveying for a planned road.
Paranormal writer Michael Cohen said: "Rumours of a handful of mammoths still kicking around in the vast wilderness of Siberia have been circulating for decades and occasionally sightings by locals have occurred.
"Siberia is an enormous territory and much of it remains completely unexplored and untouched by humans. "
Woolly mammoths roamed the Earth 10,000 years ago during the last Ice Age.
A small pocket remained on and around Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, and these did not die out until 3,500 years ago.
Mr Cohen, 41, added: "It is highly possible that a number of species, extinct elsewhere, survive in the area.
"If surviving woolly mammoths were found in Siberia, it could run against Russia's plans to further develop and exploit the area's considerable resources.
"It would be potentially one of the greatest discoveries ever."
But viewers are divided on the nature of the animal seen in the video. Some have dismissed it as a hoax while others reckon it is an elephant lost in the Siberian wilderness. The third theory is the sighting shows a bear eating a huge fish. What do you think?
Hunton Peck, I think the close up you were able to get confirms that it’s not a mammoth. It does look more like a bear that got a bit of barbed wire caught in its left ear. Or perhaps the bear was previously tagged by Progressive hunters. It’s really hard to tell from the quality of the photo, but the body looks like it’s turning Green. Perhaps we’ll see this creature running in north America soon?
Except for the front being more lumbering and gargantuan than the rear, I would say that was Michelle Obama tanking a sausage.
Kodiak, Yup..
I suppose wading through rushing water could mask it but the thing seems to move like an elephant rather than a bear.
Yah... Bear with a fish. It’s just (intentionally, IMHO) out of focus enough to let the mind be fooled by the outline... but it’s a bear. The scale is all wrong, too. To be a mammoth it would have to be much farther away to be that small on screen, and that river would have to be some hundreds of yards wide. But just by looking at the shores on each side and the water, rocks and trees, the river isn’t nearly that big and that animal isn’t far enough away to be elephant-sized. The frame and scale of the scene only make sense if it is the size of a big bear.
It's an elephant.....Barnum and Bailey have set up camp on the other side of the trees........
It’s a wooly bully!
LOL! Go to full screen.....You gotta be blind NOT TO SEE that that's a bear with a fish hanging out of it's mouth by the tail.......
And if it WAS a bear, that would explain why the camera person chose not to pursue the animal in order to get a better picture........
Come on dude, you're potentially the first person alive on this planet who may be seeing a Woolly mammoth for the first time in a million years and you don't chase the thing down to get a close up video?
I don't think a mammoth would walk a long with its trunk under water. The water is cold, plus it couldn't breathe.
A bear with a fish.
Am I the only one thinking GIANT MAMMOTH STEAKS?
3” thick, seared over a hot fire, dripping pink,
with a 25 lb baked potato and a galleon of sour cream?
A GALLEON OF SOUR CREAM!
Big Bear with big fish in mouth—thats my take—It lacks a hump that was part of a woolly mammoth.
“The Sun” is peer reviewed, right?
If it looks like a bear and fishes like a bear and you are in bear country.......... it’s a bear.
If it looks like a bear and fishes like a bear and you are in bear country.......... it’s a bear.
One very big Brown Bear with a catch-of-a-lifetime salmon.
I think a rowboat of sour cream would be adequate. As long as there was also a rowboat of fresh dairy butter. What about the horseradish though?
i’ll go with a bear with a fish in it’s mouth...
It’s a bear with a salmon. If it WAS a mammoth, the guy with the camera would have gone downstream to get a closer shot but being a big Brown Bear, he was chicken poo to get any closer and I don’t blame him. Even a dumb Russian would have enough sense to follow a mammoth to get reliable proof of what would be a shattering historical photo that would make him famous.
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