The Sun newspaper reports that a videographer has captured the incredible – a woolly mammoth crossing a turbulent river in the vast Siberian wilderness.
Don’t laugh – it’s not that far-fetched. Although scientists estimate that the woolly mammoth disappeared from most of its range at the end of the Pleistocene (some 10,000 years ago), an isolated population was still living on Wrangel Island, in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia, until roughly 1700 BC. And that means a few remaining woollies lumbered around until well after the invention of writing by humans.
But could they have escaped our notice in this day of global satellites, spy planes and thorough scientific expeditions to practically every corner of the world? New species are discovered every year by those very expeditions full of astonished scientists. The planet surely harbors secrets and surprises we have not dreamed up.
But as for the video… Well, many believe it to be an outright hoax, to be blunt. They point to the fact that it was posted by Michael Cohen, a UFO enthusiast who has posted questionable videos of alleged UFO’s hovering around in other remote places. A UFO-logist who also finds a mammoth? What are the statistical odds of that coincidence?
This Michael Cohen character is an inveterate poster of questionable videos. To read more, click here.