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@SharksandDinos

Thomas Jefferson along with the scientific community back in the day thought extinction was impossible because they believed that God wouldn't have had his hard work going to waste like that. However, it wasn't until Georges Cuvier compared the morphology of extant and extinct species proboscideans, rhinoceroses, and sloths that he was able to partially show that extinction is a scientific reality. What really solidify extinction as evident reality is the fossil record itself as it showed various lineages of animals that not only evidently aren't around anymore but they would have been found by now if they were still around.

@matthew-jy5jp

Also believed owning people was okay to mate.

@matthew-jy5jp

I guess you missed the part of how he has so many African American decendants huh ? 😂 perfect photo for someone so dumb

@AifDaimon

​@@matthew-jy5jpcolonizer mindset

@maple22moose44

That's because the idea of extinction was really uncommon at the time. It might sound like common sense that species can go extinct, but it just wasn't something people thought happened.

Part of that belief was also likely from his feud with a french naturalist, who believed North America had worse animals, and Jefferson thought the reverse, that there were just as amazing and diverse animals in North America as in Europe or Africa or Asia.

@TimFaulkner-qb5kl

My brother was stationed in Alaska for years. He swears that he saw 4 mamoths while flying over.

@dean9261

Thank you

@toddaulner5393

Yeah, that would be tough to confuse with any other animal local there.

@Noqtis

@@toddaulner5393 Dunno, could be a fat squirrel

@colorbugoriginals4457

@@Noqtisor elephants with bad toupees

@swirvinbirds1971

Gotta be more elusive than Bigfoot then.

@lopsidedc0rn875

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

@wildworld6264

Appreciate that, thank you.

@shafqatishan437

​@@wildworld6264can you make video exposing Forrest Galante?

@SOK39

We need a video of Alleged Dinosaur(In-General) Sightings

That’d be fun

@mrdonut9628

Yeah no, that’s stupid, if you wanna find a dinosaur just go birdwatching

@SOK39

@@mrdonut9628 exactly

@petergruber841

Bro the congo basin is theorised to house some extinct species, look it up

@dalegowler6436

Crocs and gators are dinosaurs

@dalegowler6436

You live in a house and speak of the wild

@ejbear8403

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.

@wildworld6264

That's awesome!

@connormcmurphy4276

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

@dianaprichards

BABE WAKE UP!!! WILD WORLD POSTED A NEW VIDEO!!!

@user-ol2so9ce2q

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 👌

@mdserpents5796

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

@Walkeranz

I’d guess 250 to 300 lbs. They’ll continue to grow as long as there is plenty of food to support their size, so that’s my guess the metabolism of the turtle being the limiting factor. My guess as someone who has caught and eaten one before. Taste like chicken, watch out for the head, even after the turtle is dead.

@baneverything5580

I`ve seen an 86lb one. We weighed it. Very dangerous, intelligent creatures. I do know they can get much much larger. So can alligators. Lots of strange water creature sightings here in Louisiana. I`ve seen several things I cannot explain.

@fatbikearcticnomad2122

I love Wooly Mammoths and Mastodons 🦣🦣

Great video man!!

@Walkeranz

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.

@dainja7325

Let's trow you out there and see if you grow hair. If so, then we can try with an elephant.

@Carnelust

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

@dalekrenegade2596

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 sct 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 idolated usland 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.

@Myrdden71

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

@reedcataldo1123

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

@ericriley1985

If I remember correctly, I think Asian elephants are more closely related to mammoths than they are to African elephants.

@paulshri8609

Love these long videos ❤

@wildworld6264

Glad you like them!

@NatureEnjoyer523

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.

@bennettfender9927

I disagree the human population was quite small at the time for one and two mammoths would be incredibly dangerous prey keep in mind modern elephants can be difficult to hunt with modern firearms now imagine trying to hunt Mammoths with spears keep in mind that Woolly Mammoths had thick fat layers that Elephants lack and some species like the Columbian Mammoth were absolutely enormous. Not saying we never hunted Mammoths but I wager it was quite rare and often ended in failure for the humans attempting to hunt them.

@NatureEnjoyer523

@@bennettfender9927 ''At a site in southern Poland that contains bones from over 100 mammoths, stone spear tips have been found embedded in bones, and many stone spear points in the site were damaged from impact against mammoth bones, indicating that mammoths were the major prey for people at the time.''

@NatureEnjoyer523

@@bennettfender9927 Aswell are ivory fugirenes found in Europe.

@NatureEnjoyer523

@@bennettfender9927 They are figurenes made from ivory found in Europe aswell.

@bennettfender9927

@@NatureEnjoyer523 It’s also possible that Mammoths were speared due to attempting to attack people of the time such behavior is often seen today people forget that Elephants have one of the highest kill counts of any animal such attacks would be even more common during ancient times when humans would’ve come into contact with aggressive proboscideans more often. Some of these spear points could be due to hunting attempts don’t get me wrong and some tribes probably hunted Mammoths more often than others but even then these were almost certainly arduous and very dangerous tasks and I guarantee you that bison and caribou were still more often on the menu than Mammoths. Point is I doubt they were hunted enough for it to really contribute to their extinction climate change and disease seems like a more likely factor to me personally.

@AifDaimon

I just feel like some of these creatures never really went extinct, but merely went into such good hiding that we humans just presume them to be extinct

@CaptainUnikitty

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 👍

@johnbwill

really good job. Thank you.

@maltedmilk6888

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

@southernafricanboy4148

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

@NewSonRising2024

Bigfoot exists and is huge and yet remains hidden.

@ReedCataldo-cl1hw

@@NewSonRising2024the patterson gilm film 1967 shows a clear video of Bigfoot way before videos and photos could be faked but of course it can be dismissed as a guy in a gorilla suit. Now a clear video or photo of a mammoth in the 1970s couldnt be dismissed by skeptics. A clear photo or video of a mammoth nowadays can be faked.

@Kev4Kev

What about them being modern elephants that just got hairy due to their environment ? Since all mammals have hair lets say some Indian elephants some how ended up in Siberia and they grew longer hair ?

@cm94returns19

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

@1297wombat

Very good work

@wildworld6264

Thank you so much 😀

@tomhutchins7495

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.

@jjr2568

Lay off the meth pipe

@missourimongoose8858

The giant ground sloth that went extinct around the same time as mammoths do dig holes in the ground, they found some recently in Brazil

@mmyr8ado.360

Do they take in certain species of amphibians as well, like tarantulas keeping small frogs in a symbiotic relationship?

@esoteric_mememaster

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

@supernus8684

Because animals in general are attracted to fire? Or wait that is backwards, animals in general avoid fire. Seems like a detail someone made up as a good part of a story.

@esoteric_mememaster

@supernus8684  it's from a made up story, but it could be true. Elephants sometimes stamp out fires, which is probably where it comes from. I'm more interested I'm the subjects' actual behaviors than the behaviors of journos.

@jointcerulean3350

It’s certainly an interesting detail. In Cuba in the zapata swamps we’re the critically endangered and terrestrial adapt Cuban crocodile currently resides. Cuban conservationist have said the Cuban crocodile have walked up to a campfire and was chilling near it, quite cool. Noted for being very inquisitive and for pack hunting behavior which has been reported.

@aleisterlavey9716

​@@jointcerulean3350those are cold-blooded, so it makes sense for it to seek warmth.

@williambaize609

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.

@alinapopescu872

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...

@steve-0493

Yh good stuff about this subject lol,just started watching a few minutes ago.its only 12:50am where I am lol,Ohio, USA 😁✌️🥃🤟

@wildworld6264

I hope you had an entertaining breakfast 😊

@alinapopescu872

@@wildworld6264 Indeed it was, thank you.

@alinapopescu872

Seriously now, I do agree with you. People must've stumbled across mammoth remains and, since they look so... well, fresh, must've thought the animal had died recently.

@wildworld6264

@@alinapopescu872 Yeah, it makes sense. If I was in the same position, I probably would have thought the same.

@Charlie.a

Thank you

@wildworld6264

Thank you for watching!

@BILLYTHEBATCLEMENTS1

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.

@The-Black-Death

Honestly my theory is, that a lot of these, if not most of these sightings of thought to be extinct animals are actually just ghosts or spirits of them really. It would explain why you can't really "find" them, and why you might see them in environments that they wouldn't be suited for.

@yasodam5479

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 👌

@jamess3241

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

@FreedomToRoam86

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!

@nobody687

I live in northern Alaska. And last week my wife and I were hunting when we saw Bigfoot riding a mammoth chasing a ufo. We took pictures but we drop the film and a chupracabra jumped out from nowhere and grabbed the film and ran off. That's when the leprechaun made off with my snowmachine. So we roped a unicorn and rode it back home.

@justuntheranderson3141

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

@burntofferings3770

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.

@droidcrasher

They say Yukon, Canada!!!
But you didn't hear it from me! 😁

@teresamcnulty8471

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?

@petes5041

Of course they are, I regularly feed a few on my daily walk! That's usually right after my Nurse gives me my Medication!

@ximaginecaringx6602

If they pulled off cloning mammoths, they wouldn't tell the mass population for safety reasons

@ankitkumarsingh8055

Bro one video on beast of gevaudan

@twoheadedtasmanian1481

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

@Specogecko

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

@anthonywatson1508

From what i always heard most mammoth sightings are from Alaska and Canada. I have a question though: would there be enough food that far north for an animal that size?

@mnj640

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

@thelasttruepatriot

Yes mammoths are still alive

@jjr2568

Stop watching so much Game of Thrones 🤣

@jointcerulean3350

Hollow earth 🌍 🦣🗿
Mammoth kingdom 🧊

@thelasttruepatriot

​@@jjr2568 I don't

@thelasttruepatriot

​@@jointcerulean3350 hollow flat earth, wake up people

@jjr2568

Y'all crazy af 🤣

@David-gh6vp

16:00 It is worth noting that the Indian Elephants of SE Asia are the closest relatives of "Mammoths." The smaller ears and presence of hair illustrate this. So, if we can ever clone, one of these would be appropriate.
Now that i think of it, wasn't there a black and white picture of a small mammoth taken by a WWII prisoner/photographer? Long before "photoshop"?

@Mockthenerd

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

@nogoodgod4915

Mate we have satalites

@aleisterlavey9716

How about a blimp?

@buckaroobanzai2551

Didn't watch the video, just here to answer the thumbnail question. Not only no but f*** no. That is all.

@FFNOJG

the admiral byrd tale is actually from his dairy from his son... or that is the original story of where the story came from

@blobbertmcblob4888

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.

@Sharktoz

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.

@wildworld6264

Much appreciated. I'm certainly no expert either, but a multitude of reasons contributing to their extinction certainly sounds plausible.

@deanfirnatine7814

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.

@jjr2568

And?

@ReedCataldo-cl1hw

If woolly mammoth vocalizations were recorded that would be hard evidence it is alive today. But because none have been recorded that means its impossible there still around.

@gwenderp6229

I wanna hear a person from Boston say "The tigers from the taiga" three times fast.

@wildworld6264

Me too!

@billredding2000

The voice sounds like this is the same guy who does the "Maximum Fear" channel.
-- BR

@allybally0021

I've seen a couple in the Detroit area. They were in disguise though.

@jonbinki9651

if we find one.., it'll end up in a Dubai circus...

@jointcerulean3350

Very Fascinating tales, stories, of possible reports living mammoths. Though it’s quite possible that a woolly mammoth population on the mainland could have persisted even more recently than the wrangle island population perhaps. Also Epic video🔥🦣
And regarding elephants, there were quite a lot of Proboscideans during the Pleistocene. Three current species and three subspecies of Asian elephant.

@edwinisfandiari1230

Man I feel bad for him getting hate

@pedroroque829

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

@andrewchristensen6295

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

@LTPottenger

More possible than you might think due to the vast areas in the north that are very inaccessible many of which no one has ever been to. But probably not. Even plesiosaur is more likely, the main problem there is killer whales would slaughter them on sight.

@randywatkins3306

Why not ! Thier are BIG foot sighting , Giant SHARK sighting ! Shure why not ! 😮

@prisonmike3856

Mammoths are definitely not alive, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of me watching a Wild World upload.

@aleisterlavey9716

Well, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so there is a how ever small chance they still stick around. Same with the unicorns on Mars. 😂

@equaldime9069

I live in a taiga forest💪🏻

@gantulgaganhuyag717

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

@extremempsilvamps5851

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.

@incineroar9933

No but i like these stories anyways.

@nc3136

Mastodons would do better in the tiga Forest

@jadebrownbull4903

If mammoths are alive, we have to look at what they eat and what habitat they hang out the most. They cant just hide in a forest.

@SonsOfMars0

?? Lolwut, who the fuck is going to scour google maps, coordinate by coordinate to search for mammoths. How do you know they arent on there ?? That's an absolutely insane take

@LTPottenger

And they don't take pictures in real time maybe there was a picture 6 years ago for these remote places. They also edit the pictures smooth them and so on

@SonsOfMars0

@@LTPottenger exactly that's like finding a needle In a haystack. Even if someone would find one, it probably won't be there when they go to show someone

@askme4227

Would be awesome if they still exist.

@dalegowler6436

Well you see what you see this world is nothing as you see

@flournoymason8961

I wish they did still exist. Maybe they will one day or at least a hairy Indian elephant via cloning.

@simonevans343

Seven percent of one million acrers is a large amunt of Unimake island not being wilderness . Especially in 1903

@user-ul4rf8jp9f

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?

@spacefanboy

Very possible they are still alive as well as many animals we have been told are gone are still alive in lands we are not told about.

@threetoesstacker3725

I think they hide with the big foots😂

@mnj640

No tundra in Antarctica no mammoth

@thephantom2man

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

@wildworld6264

Good point!

@SkyDavis100

The other question though, are those resources being used to scan for animals? I doubt it.

@crownprincesebastianjohano7069

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.

@aleisterlavey9716

Could they have adapted to a more omnivore lifestyle? There are cases where cows f.e. ate a small chicken, probably because of malnutrition.

@larrymyers6327

All we have is Yellow journalism

@TheAg812

No need to brag, Penn State. I’ve also dated a few mammoths.

@emmanuelperez541

Just ask the mammoth from ice age

@NickTheShark_

Yes in a secret lab under colossals laboratory

@NickTheShark_

I didn't even watch that part of the video when I made that comment but I guess I just predicted it lol

@rinkhoek3130

4:43 "a 30ft long crocodile serpent" we all know what this means right?

He clearly saw a Coelacanth, this is the proof (if we take exaggerated size into account ofcourse, but the thing was battling a Mammoth so i understand the haste)

@user-ho4nw5sf3w

We don't need these. We have a short hair version

Hang on….did you even think to consider Coelacanth

@@Olympusland it’s an inside joke between me and the guy who made the video can you please not butt in on a joke that is not involving you? Every video no matter what (I totally agree with you) I always say something like “HANG ON HOLD UP….did you consider coelacanth???”

@@Olympusland even if it’s not pertaining to it at all what I’m trying to do is basically embody and joke/make fun of those who say stuff like “coelacanth exist modern time? Megladon 1000% exist modern time”

@Olympusland

Took that way too seriously sorry.

@mulematt6225

I believe in mammoth being alive over a Bigfoot.

@SensiProductionzBlindDogVideos

Omg

@noel3422

I think you are a large hairy elephant, lol.

@reinotsurugi

I tried dating a mammoth. Didn't work out.

@howaboutataste

I'm really angry that you didn't use this video to spread awareness of the Sumatran Rhino. Could have AT LEAST mentioned that the Wooly Rhinoceros IS still alive!!!! And critical endangered. Almost certainly will die out in our lifetime. 😠😠😠😠😠😠

@artawhirler

So you're upset that a video about mammoths didn't talk about rhinos??

@howaboutataste

@@artawhirler yes.

@tysonwastaken

no

@jjr2568

People be watching too much Game of Thrones