Alaska News

Woolly mammoth caught on video in Siberia?

A video has emerged in recent days of what is being billed as a woolly mammoth crossing a river in Siberia.

According to London's The Sun, the footage of the woolly mammoth was captured by a government engineer last summer in Siberia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region while he was surveying a road project. The Sun says:

...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.

We're not sure what to make of it. What do you think?

Craig Medred

Craig Medred is a former writer for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch and Alaska Dispatch News. He left the ADN in 2015.

ADVERTISEMENT