Photo from open sources According to the official version, mammoths died out ten thousand years ago, separate groups of these animals, say, on an island Wrangel existed four thousand years ago. However still there are witnesses who were lucky enough to meet a living mammoth. So maybe these “fossils” are still alive?
The strangest thing is about mammoths, as about something completely natural, 19th century writers write. For example, I. Turgenev in the story “Ferret and Kalynich” describes the episode in which Ferret Demonstrates to the hunter a solid boot made of mammoth leather. It is worth noting that this is a story from almost documentary “Notes hunter. ”Moreover, Turgenev at that time could not know what represents the mammoth and especially the strength of its skin, since before the famous Berezovsky stuffed was almost half a century (1900 year). So, the writer had other information about mammoths, more common in his century, where is this animal, judging by everything was not considered extinct and even very rare.
How about a rare, but far from extinct mammoth, Jack London wrote. In his story “The Tertiary Era Shard” the hunter presents to the author moccasins (mukluk) sewn from the skin of a mammoth. Moreover, the writer sends all unbelievers to a real professor Dolvidson, in whose museum he left these amazing boots.
But the most striking thing is that information about a meeting with mammoths constantly slip in the media. One gets the impression that fossil animals come either from a parallel world, sort of like yeti or Loch Ness monster, or just still hiding on the vast expanses of the Earth, to study thoroughly which we do not managed so far. Therefore, the words of the song that “our old planet all studied long ago, “most likely written by Konstantin Ibryaev only for a beautiful word …
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