It's a big bear with a big fish.
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?
Please let it be true!
yep - me too.
Big bear with big fish - fish that flops
no tusks, especially no curly Mammoth tusks.
It’s a woolly mammoth with a fish in it’s mouth. Should be obvious to anyone.
“You think every specimen is going to have those perfect enormous majestic tusks like depicted in the artists’ pictures? I can show you plenty of REAL elephant pics with short straight tusks.”
Do the tusks look like salmon?
Bear with a fish.
Bear.
It’s a fish, dragging a bear with it’s tail. It sure ain’t a mammoth, wooly or otherwise. I was born in the morning, but not THIS morning.
It is not a bear with a big fish. What a highly unimaginative and banal dismissal of some of the most scientifically important footage in our lifetime, especially for so purportedly erudite and considered a cognoscenti.
Just damn.
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I'm apalled.
My husband was born in Alaska. He told me the natives said the last Mammoth was seen in the 1800s. I posted this info a while back.
My husband was born in Alaska. He told me the natives said the last Mammoth was seen in the 1800s. I posted this info a while back.
Yeah, it doesn’t seem that difficult to make the call.
Exactly...if the dude thought it was really a mammoth there would be an hour of footage not 24 seconds.
That is just not right....
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Thanks Red Badger....a sighting a paranormal investigator thinks could prove woolly mammoths are not extinct after all. |
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Definitely not a bear.
A wooly mammoth or an elephant.
That’s the key thing: it moves like an elephant.
There’s a squatch in these woods!
I spotted the flappy pachy ears without any definition-enhancement. Anyone thinking bear should take a second look for those ears.
I can see where someone would mistake it for a wooly mammoth with a salmon though:)
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