Are Mammoths Still Alive? 

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Honestly, it'd be pretty funny if Colossal brought back the Mammoth and then we find a population of them already roaming Siberia or Alaska, although I think something like that would be more plausible with the much smaller Thylacine, instead of a multi-ton behemoth.

Many, many years ago, I remember reading that the bones of pygmy mastadons were found on islands off the coast of California. And that coastal indiginous tribes had tales of how they had been hunted to extinction as part of their oral histories. I forgot the source years ago, but I would love to see you explore this. Great content 👌

In 2015 a seismic sensor was destroyed by an unusual large animal stepping on it and crushed it in Alaska. Also Alaskan Natives say they hunted them as recently as 200 years ago and described the Mammoths to white men. Also in the early twentieth century a Native turned in a tusk with flesh and blood still on it, to a trader. A scientist saw huge tracks like elephant tracks in mud less than a hundred years ago in Alaska.

In a College Speech Class I did a speech about possible Surviving Mammoths based on the Mammoth chapter in Heuvelmans' book and the MacLean's Magazine story. It was a 5 minute speech and I had over 15 minutes of questions--I got an A on the speech.

Neither your channel or Truth's channel ever fail to produce a video that keeps me engaged. Great work.

I love Wooly Mammoths and Mastodons 🦣🦣 Great video man!!

I've lived in Fairbanks Alaska for 60 years I've heard these stories my whole life

I'll believe live mammoths are real when I see a fresh dead body of one. Kind of like Sasquatch. There is a reason why our Osage tribe had to switch away from Ni-ta (literally, "Water meat", our word for elephants/mammoths) to Elk and Deer, then later to bison. But they recognized elephants immediately when the circuses brought them. And stories about them talk about how loud they were, which sounds consistent with pretty recent knowledge of them in northeastern USA. So yeah, I'd love to see them wandering around for real!

These videos always hook me in, I really find these creatures interesting and even the movie Ice Age was my first introduction of many animals that are now extinct (mainly the first movie) but also I remember seeing a video about all these stories from indigenous tribes about mammoth (only unsure if it was from actual true tribes but the stories where very interesting like seeing mammoth as scary night monster than just hairy elephants walking around, but also humans hunted them down so I might be just that) great video keep it up 👍

Nothing quite like opening my RU-vid app, and seeing that beautiful blue border around that thumbnail. Hell yes :)

I don’t know if you’re looking for video recommendations but you should do the topic “how big does it get alligator snapping turtle” there are a lot of stories about giants and some documented so it would be cool to see what you find. Big fan keep up the great work

Thomas Jefferson actually believed Mammoths were roaming the Great Plains. When he sent Lewis and Clark he hoped that they would find a mammoth. The fact that Jefferson thought this is pretty interesting.

Great content, and great interpretations of the stories of sightings. Thank you!

When I was a young boy, living in a West Virginia, my Pop would tell a story about pterodactyls living in the secluded woods of a nearby mountain. A few months later, I saw an episode of Jonny Quest with a Pteranodon and was convinced. Long live imagination!

There's actually the idea that when people see these animals, they're seeing time anomalies and seeing into the past. Seeing ghosts, if you will.

We need a video of Alleged Dinosaur(In-General) Sightings That’d be fun

It's early morning over here, so I had something interesting to watch at breakfast. Thank you! Bringing back mammoths should be the lowest on mankind's list of literally burning issues...

The smithsonian is notorious for "losing" things that prove our real history.

What I'm taking from this is there are no mammoths, but possibly an unknown species of giant underground rat. And obviously the reason we haven't found them is because they are underground, industriously digging subway systems and sewers that humans then find and use for new purposes.

I checked to see if you had any new uploads literally two hours ago, it's like magic!

that would be a great monsterquest episode talking that mammoths that escaped before the plan on resurrecting them 3 years later

My first question would be, "Would a 16th century Cossack actually know what an elephant looked like beyond being huge? A musk ox, for example, may have been, to an outsider, hairy and elephantine.

I loved the video. Thanks for your reasoned approached to this topic.

For those interested in living mammoths there's a book deries by Stephen Baxter called the "Behemoth Trilogy". It's a Watership Down kind if story with it's animals characters, still act like animals but the added bonus of a culture and even a religion for the mammoths. The first book "Silverhair" follows the titilar character, a female mammoth struggling to survive in the late 20th century on her isolated island home. 2nd book "Longtusk" is a prequel story that follows the exploits of the titular character during the Ice Age who actions were so grand his story is still remembered even by the cast of the first book. The third and final book "Icebones" I'm not going to spoil anything because the setting of this story itself is beyond wild. The trilogy is very good though it is tricky for one to get a copy of the books these days.

Here’s just a thought, what if, like ghosts, echoes from the past of animals long gone, thru some cosmic force, can sometimes appear? Maybe they’re ghosts too. Maybe it’s peering thru a portal of time. I do believe credible people when they allege to see them, maybe there’s an explanation we’re not thinking of because it’s outside the realm of what most think to be possible. Just an idea. Love your channel so much brother, can’t wait to see you hit 100K subs. You deserve million’s frankly. God speed mate

You are giving the Smithsonian wayyyy too much credit. They hide everything! In the movie Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark, towards the end of the movie they had shot of a large room where everything was stored. It was the impression based on other peoples own experience going down to see where many things were kept. And yes, while ILM and its magic made the room to appear enormous for the shot, we really don’t know how many rooms, or floors underground they have, or if they destroyed any other evidence they don’t want us to see. But thats ok, by the time you reach my age you will start to put the pieces together that what they tell us, and what we find out if we’re paying attention enough, that it doesn’t add up in the frontal lobe.

The woolly mammoths closest living relative is the asian elephant not the african elephant.

Elephants are very intelligent with astoundingly excellent memory retention - so one would also assume that Mammoths were/are also intelligent with really excellent memories. I believe that a herd in a super remote region or an island comprising over a million acres say with tree cover, would stand a strong chance of surviving & even adapting to their environment especially if that environment only went through very gradual climactic change. That they would avoid humans is understandable since it’s likely any interaction with humans led to attack & possibly death to a family member. And even if the interaction occurred long ago, those Mammoths would pass that knowledge on to successive younger generations. Avoid humans! They’re dangerous! Remember the Gorilla who were thought to be legends & myths, until they were ‘Discovered’ living in the Jungles in the Congo in the 1920’s , I believe? ❤. I. Think it’s possible. But I hope all you hunters out there think I’m loopy or just full of crap. 😏 some beautiful living beings should be left alone & given freedom to live. Something we all want desperately. Yes?

Love these long videos ❤

The Coelecath was extinct until found off of Africa. The Nautilus was extinct until found. There's no reason to believe that mammoths aren't still out there, same with the Tasmanian wolf. Things hide, it's been that way since the flood of Noah's time. It's self defense to hide from humans.

I wonder if elephants were introduced into a cold environment if they would grow hair like a mammoth. Similar to what happens when hogs go feral.

Sorry as a person who grew up on a farm in Africa active in hunting I don't believe it An elephant is such a large animal that it can't exist for years unseen unless on a remote island somewhere What would they be eating in Siberia

An isolated population of mammoths, if reduced to a point of inter breeding they would soon not be a viable species. Don't you think ?

My uncle who owns a couple different mines up in Alaska has fossilized mammoth tusk and a half a leg bone of some kind it’s really amazing to see in real life I have only seen pictures but they’re the real deal

Admiral Byrd did a radio or TV interview whereas he flew over the North Pole, and that it was green with lush valleys, with herds of Mammoth running and grazing.

Here’s a great question: how do you actually “prove” a species has gone extinct? Well, you can’t, of course. What scientists should say that’s actually logically correct: “We have strong evidence the Wooly Mammoth has gone extinct.” Even my Logic 120 professor from a quarter century ago would agree with this.

Very good work

Mastodons would feed in the forests and most people wouldn’t know the difference upon a chance encounter. Could be mastodons instead of mammoths

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I mean they were still around when the Egyptians were building the pyramids

Remember in The Chronicles of Narnia when many creatures had to go into hiding

Problem with these early accounts is they could easily have been describing dead remains

Love your work my friend

Love the intro. Your stuff keeps getting better. Mammoth's are an interesting case. I'm by no means an expert on them, I imagine them going extinct was because of a multitude of small reasons that, together, had a big impact. It never ceases to surprise me how often people will fake stories about an "extinct" animal they saw. Great video as always pal. Gonna give Truths video a look.

Let's do the math... We already know how to clone animals, so the R&D to figure out how to clone mammoths wouldn't be too significant. Let's say it costs $100,000,000 to get to the point where we could clone a mammoth. Then once we got there it cost approximately $1,000,000 to clone each one. You could then (if you wanted to) recoup your investment by selling the opportunity to hunt a mammoth for $10,000,000 each. But why would you? There's a Nobel prize awaiting you, so why keep it a secret?

FYI Hammerson Peter's Channel on this platform covers this topic well in relation to Mammoths in Canada. We are the only other country than Russia that has huge vast forest areas still largely inaccessible to human activity. Nahanni National Park in the Northwest Territories in Canada is the locus for these accounts.

Thank you

I’m pretty open to them having hung on till within the last 1000yrs but don’t think they’re hiding somewhere in the north given that the places they could survive are open and visible, would be awesome but they’d probably be tiny and extremely inbred 😔 I do find it interesting when there’s reference to reddish hair that’s noted before the more recent mummy’s like Lyuba that have hair remaining were found though. Maybe there were earlier mummy’s that were found and that detail worked its way into oral history from there. Nice vid 👌

I'd love an infinity battery drone that could just fly over these areas, scanning.

I was up in the wilderness some time ago and came across a bigfoot riding a mammoth. I followed and took pictures along the way. I made sure to also photograph the foot prints in the mud. After about 1/2 mile, the animals entered a wating UFO. The UFO took off with them still inside. I didnt care, i had photograghic evidence. When i was hiking out, i stopped to rest on a log. I set my camera down, and before i knew it, something resembling a thylacine snatched my camera and ran away. He ran one way, and i the other.

Could mammoths still survive in the remote Taiga *forest?* You answered your own question. These are Woolly Mammoth. Not Mastodon. So no, they need grasslands.

Did he call them the "Stroking-off family"???

This one was an excellent watch! Such a fascinating topic. Like so many ancient giant beasts, we seem to have a need to see them alive again that goes back to our ancient roots and the nostalgia around our lost wildness. We need great beasts and monsters. That seems to be subconsciously behind both Colossal Bioscience's project - in addition to the more obvious ecological reasons - and the search of living woolly mammoths. Regarding late mammoth survival, I want to believe. The taiga is the largest terrestrial biome, and so much of it is desolate, remote and largely unexplored in modern times except for Indigenous populations. Part of me is half-convinced smaller mammoths could be serving a similar ecological niche there to the African forest elephants, only in a much more northerly clime. But the sightings of these animals and their tracks seem to be few. Granted, to have a sighting you need both the thing being sighted and a human to see it. Even so, I'm inclined to agree with you that's it's highly unlikely. If we do find relict living mammoths out there *after* similar animals get bio-engineered (assuming that project is even successful), that will lead to both a unique opportunity for scientific study and also a hornet's nest of ethical issues. Anyway, once again really enjoyed this. I'm so glad I subscribed to your channel.

Mamoths could easily crossed the bering straights into Alaska. Its,so stupid how men see a rare animal, and their first thought is KILL IT !

I've wanted to do a spoof TV series like "Finding Sasquatch" but looking for mammoths across the plains of North and South Dakota, claiming to find footprints etc... it'd be funny af

Have you ever heard that Wooly mammoths lived in tropical environments? Hair cooled them. So much has been hidden from us. We have to dig deep in ancient writings to get a picture of the truth. Ive read that the North pole used to be tropical before flash frozen when poles shifted. Interesting stuff. Thank for the video

Beautiful nature photos!! ❤ I like the subject too.

People don’t think about that. It happens everyday that someone is the last to see something without even knowing. Just imagine seeing a Woolly mammoth in a forest and it’s the last one and it dies without being seen again. That person doesn’t even know they were the last to see any woolley again. That happens everyday and people don’t even know whether it’s the last to see a certain animal,person or thing ever.

Slight aside, but I often wonder if some lab somewhere has been dabbling with frozen mammoth DNA & elephants. Or even Neanderthal/Denisovan DNA with modern stem cells

Amur tigers live in areas FAR more populated than the taiga region. Mastodon was not a steppe animal but forest like forest elephant in Africa and India.

Its Brûz the Chopper coming out from the middle earth as an assassinating troll from Olog-Hai😂😂😂

Admiral Byrd also flew over the north pole and wrote a book about that as well as being the admiral in charge of a huge flotilla of naval ships that went to Antarctica because they thought the Germans had established a base there.

The mammoths being attracted to fire detail at 8:00 is pretty interesting. Seems like a detail that could be true.

really good job. Thank you.

I seen an old video of a Mammoth walking around in a Russia it looked huge but the footage was from the 1943 during WW2 a German military photographer filmed it!

Yes, back 100-ish BC but when was the most recent? Some old newspaper articles from Alaska cited them very much more recently. Neat to see them in "Planet Earth 3" wouldn't it?

Lots of things mega rich do that we don't know about

They are very difficult to spot when they are up in the trees.

My Dad grew up in Michigan and had a lot of Native American friends growing up. His friends grandparents would tell them stories of their ancestors hunting Mammoths. They were around a lot longer then what people want to think

The mammoth statues that he is filming in this video are located in the siberian town of Khanty-Mansiisk, specifically a park near the stadium Arena Ugra, a hockey stadium in the area.

That was good. You made some very good deductions. Liked and subbed... although I hate that word.

The difference of the tasmanian tiger and the mammoth is that the Tasmanian tiger is small and easy to hide, and could easily be mistaken for a dog or a wolf. Mammoths are giants, you could probably see one of them normally if they were actually alive. So no, they are not.

It’s wild to think that North America had elephants and lions. But, when you’re reminded that this used to be one giant land mass it makes sense

I personally would still say humans are the factor behind the mammoth's extinction, since elephants are a key stone species and there destruction of trees prevent savannahs from becoming forest. So, in my oponion, the appearence of forests is a result of the mammoths extinction, not the cause.

Yes, in WWII some mammoths were still alive in remote Siberia!!!

We are told many creatures are extinct. Yet we continue to find them alive and well.

very well presented, I was expecting UnchartedX

I believe mammoths were still alive until the end of the mini Ice age possible up to the middle ages.

It is said, Mammoth, not Mammos. Not all Mammoth did fall over at the same time and dropped dead. I do believe that there are still some of them. Russia is huge and exceeds into China. So this particular region is not even to explore, dangerous at least.

I thought I saw one yesterday, but then I realized it was a 450lb unshaven woman on a barely working Jazzy in Farmersville, and we’d been running calls all night, and I hadn’t slept. Kinda threw me, she wasn’t with her normal herd, a 70lb wisp of a man following her begging for scraps. In all seriousness, I wouldn’t doubt for a minute, especially when he mentioned Siberia. That place is so remote, and even now, uncharted.

It’s funny how intelligent we believe we are and yet love stories like these.

What if we blow on to e permafrost areas? Like hear me out, if blowing on our food makes it colder then why can’t we blow on snow?

Its literally bigger than a barn door. How can you not find it if there are multi thousand kilograms of meat stampeding local fauna.

I read about the Russian pilot who saw the herd of mammoths back in the 1980s in a Soviet magazine. But those weren't exactly reliable sources.

A giant woolly mammoth versus a giant crocodile snake? Sounds like the plot of a bad Godzilla movie. 😂

As a Tasmanian, I am as far away from this story as is possible but I still find it fascinating. . . . my version of this story is the thylacine.

This is the third account of I've heard of someone seeing a Mammoth. None of them knew each other, obviously. They're seeing something. I believe this could be true.

Remember when the extinct fish. The coelacanth was found to exist? That was historical. Could there be a mammoth or plesiosaur still around in the same way? Totally possible.

If there was a verified sighting of a mammoth out there, there would be hundreds of hunters going after the ivory which looks like it would yield 3-4 times what the modern day african elephant does.

Great vid as usual! I'd agree tho, if mammoths were still around we'd of found them, satellites and thier sensor suites these days are just insane. I'd wager somewhere so cold, the thermal images of a herd of large animals like that would be discernable at the very least

I’m confused I thought the best frozen mammoth was found in Siberia and when they checked the stomach contents found plants only found in tropical environments ? From memory the scientists concluded it had been flash frozen because it still had food in its mouth and stomach that hadn’t been digested. Please correct me if I’m wrong thx

A species of Eastern Grizzley Bear was found in Quebec and the Maritime Canadian provinces known as the Ungava Bear. There are also reports of small population of prehistoric North American Horses in Quebec etc. Which is a vast remote wilderness. Anything is possible ,so maybe.

The ancient Chinese reports may have refer to surviving Palaeoloxodon. We may never know how hairy this genus was, especially when living at such latitudes. Art works from the Shang and Zhou dynasties all depict elephants with two 'fingers' on the tip of their trunk (whereas the surviving Indian Elephant only have one 'finger'). Found Mammoth trunks also have two "fingers"...

I could see the Arctic being a refugium for a relict group of mammoths. Large parts of the area are quite remote and would prove to be a great area for mammoths to hide out. They were supposed to have gone extinct 4,000 years ago--not all that long ago in geological terms. But there have been no recent credible sightings as far as I know. So for now, I consider them to be extinct.

Hey, maybe they are still out there. They are one of the Lazarus taxa.

There was a high definition recent photo of a Mammoth on 'RU-vid'. Not very big about 6' high with chestnut brown hair. There is also moving film taken by a German POW from Stalingrad of the animal.

Man I feel bad for him getting hate

Considering that they actually were tropical animals I seriously doubt any have been seen in a taiga forest. Mammoths are a classic example of how artists can form one's view of animal more than the science. However, we have found mammoth remains with the tropical plants still in their digestive system that is how well preserved some of them are.

There is an Ancient Breed Zoo and Museum in France, with huge odd looking Ox, plus other weird animals (no Mammoths yet!).