VIDEO: Woolly mammoth video proof of survival of extinct species?

Have you seen the woolly mammoth video yet? If not, you’ll want to give this a look. The blurry video clip allegedly captures a real, live woolly mammoth walking across a river in Siberia. Naturally, the video is most likely a hoax or a case of mistaken identity, but it’s still fun to speculate about.

The alleged woolly mammoth video sighting was captured by a government-employed engineer named Michael Cohen and was first posted online by the UK Tabloid The Sun on Thursday. On initial viewing, the woolly mammoth video does kind of give one the impression of watching a large, furry pachyderm crossing a body of water.

After staring at it for a while though, and wondering why — in this modern day and age — the video is so damned blurry, one starts to question the authenticity of the identification. If you consider the size of the animal, the color of its fur and the probability of what it is actually doing in the river, the real explanation of what is captured on film here is probably a whole lot simpler than the sudden resurrection of an extinct species.

What is really captured on the alleged woolly mammoth video? Well, in my humble opinion (and that of many others), the video shows nothing more than the blurry outline of a bear carrying a large fish in its mouth. First, the size and color seems about right. Second, there are bears in Siberia. Third, these bears tend to go fishing and carry these fish around in their mouths before eating them. Lastly, woolly mammoths went extinct about 4000 years ago, according to the best estimates of scientific experts.

If you are left with any doubt that this video might not be a clever bit of trickery, let’s not ignore the fact that the videographer, Mr. Cohen, is reportedly something of a weird phenomena enthusiast. Apparently he’s also been behind the lens for some questionable UFO videos and film of other oddities.

According to The Sun, however, all of these easy explanations are BS. The tabloid claims that hair samples collected in the area match samples from woolly mammoth remains previously found in Russia. A skeptic, of course, would respond that those samples could have easily been planted… if the results of that ‘test’ were actually even real.