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Offline SkepticalVegan

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'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« on: Feb 08, 2012, 10:51:43 AM »
It would be awesome to have the first video of a living mammoth!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4116326/Woolly-mammoth-spotted-in-Siberia.html

wonder what it is, a mammoth?
a bear with a fish in its mouth?
a fake?
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #1 on: Feb 08, 2012, 11:01:09 AM »
Looks fake to me, particularly the lack of foam and water spray around the mammoth. You'd think a torrent this quick would react to suddenly hitting a stationary obstacle. While it would indeed be awesome if they found a living mammoth, this does not convince me.
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #2 on: Feb 08, 2012, 11:05:02 AM »
A. It's printed in the Sun

B. This is the first line of the story :A BEAST lurches through icy waters in a sighting a paranormal investigator thinks could prove woolly mammoths are not extinct after all.

So I don't think so.
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #3 on: Feb 08, 2012, 11:14:51 AM »
Looks like crude CGI

Also, I've never seen an elephant that dangled its trunk into the water while crossing a river. They tend to need that thing to breathe.
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #4 on: Feb 08, 2012, 11:20:51 AM »
The fact that the recorder did not make ANY attempt to focus or move closer makes me call BS. 

Even without reading SUN, Paranormal Investigator etc.
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #5 on: Feb 08, 2012, 12:00:06 PM »
Why don't people have cameras that focus better these days?
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #6 on: Feb 08, 2012, 12:11:13 PM »
I had no idea there even was a SUN except page 3.
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #7 on: Feb 08, 2012, 12:22:18 PM »
To paraphrase Mitch: "The trouble with woolly mammoths is that they look like a blurry bear with a fish in its mouth"
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #8 on: Feb 08, 2012, 12:32:20 PM »
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #9 on: Feb 08, 2012, 12:36:57 PM »
Quote from: Kayto on Feb 08, 2012, 12:32:20 PM
It totally looks like a Siberian Brown Bear to me:

http://images.yuku.com.s3.amazonaws.com/image//dad16b649110f53ee82b5e15af9ab17b329bc5cf_r.jpg
Well obviously you're not a paranormal investigator.   :D
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #10 on: Feb 08, 2012, 12:55:24 PM »
Quote from: Kayto on Feb 08, 2012, 12:32:20 PM
It totally looks like a Siberian Brown Bear to me:

http://images.yuku.com.s3.amazonaws.com/image//dad16b649110f53ee82b5e15af9ab17b329bc5cf_r.jpg


How can you even say that....? One is a elephant looking thing with a trunk and the other is an orange colored sphere with a stupid face being mauled by a bear. The two look nothing alike. 

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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #11 on: Feb 08, 2012, 01:24:07 PM »
Please you can see his leg like, through all that water? I don't think so, just some sub par video editing.
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #12 on: Feb 08, 2012, 06:03:23 PM »
Saw this on another forum and immediately asked what the need for a paranormal investigator was unless they thought the 'mammoth' was a ghost.

I googled the guy's name and it seems that the Sun just gives him column inches now and again.
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #13 on: Feb 08, 2012, 07:14:16 PM »
It's in The Sun.  Forget about it and skip to Page 3.
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Re: 'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia?
« Reply #14 on: Feb 08, 2012, 08:17:07 PM »
This is confirming evidence that hairy cryptids have evolved unfocusing mechanisms to avoid being caught by cameras. Why there was a selection pressure for such an adaptation is a riddle that can only be solved by the greatest evolutionary biologists of our time: the Ghost Adventures squad.
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