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Science-fiction fans and Hollywood movie makers love the thought of bringing a dinosaur back to life. But perhaps there's no need for mad scientists, secret islands and DNA trapped in amber - because a wooly mammoth may be already wandering around the wilds of Siberia. A creature with all the characteristics of the long-extinct animal was filmed wading across a river in the remote Russian region - the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region, to put a finer point on it.
The jaw-dropping footage appears to show an elephant-shaped animal with reddish-brown fur - which would match the colour of mammoth hair dug up from the perma-frost in frozen Russia - and what appears to be a trunk dragging in the river. A Russian government engineer, out in the remote area last summer to survey for a planned road, filmed the animal. He has not been available for comment since the video footage went public yesterday.
Paranormal writer Michael Cohen said Siberia was a vast area, and it was possible that it contained many undiscovered species. Whether it contained woolly mammoths was another question.
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