Eight Species Declared Extinct But May Still be Out There

Saturday, December 9, 2017 | By Cherie Glenn

Woolly Mammoth

5. WOOLLY MAMMOTH

Yes, that large, hairy elephant creature is said to still be out there by some believers. In 1920, a Frenchman told an amazing story of seeing what certainly sounds like a mammoth in Siberia. He described it as a "huge elephant with big white tusks that were very curved. It's hair was a dark chestnut color as far as I could see."

Even as late as 1948, frozen mammoths were discovered with meat still fresh, and every once in a while, unconfirmed reports do trickle out of Siberia mentioning "elephant-like" creatures. Not exactly solid evidence, but it's pretty hard to mistake an elephant for a moose, don't you think?



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