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Several thousand years ago the last woolly mammoth was murdered by a pack or saber tooth tigers 1000 strong. Don’t feel too bad for the hairy elephant, though, because his death lives on in a super-awesome CSI episode. It was in season 2 we think. Grissom was sent back in time when he touched a magic sperm tester.
The fate of the entire Woolly Mammoth species is eclipsed only by the extinction of the dodo bird. Until now, that is. Because it ends up all woolly mammoths aren’t dead after all. Some guy in Siberia just captured one on camera.
See for yourself, sucka.
Speaking as a website that has caused the utter extinction of thousands of species, we feel awful. We’ve got all our best people crammed into a laboratory swirling things around petri dishes in attempt to resurrect this or that, but we don’t have a lot of faith in their GEDs. Our appetite for entire ecosystems sometimes keeps us up at night.
If we’re lucky, some of the creatures we’ve wiped out may one day be filmed wading through Siberian rivers. You know – like how a Woolly Mammoth was recently filmed doing that exact thing.
As the Sun puts it:
“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.”
Obviously not everyone is convinced that the thing on the video is a mammoth. Some say it looks more like a bear lugging around a gigantic fish. That would be a pretty good explanation – if Siberian bears weren’t one of the complete species that we ate to death. Take that stupid explanation and shove it, know what we mean?
Well whatever it is lurching around in the water – we’ll let you figure it out. We’re too busy grilling up polar bears and bald eagles.
See the clip right here: