Showing posts with label Pygmy Mammoths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pygmy Mammoths. Show all posts

Thursday, February 09, 2012

That Ain't No Mammoth


'Don't believe the UK Sun.  It's a bear with a fish in its mouth, filmed from a distance.  And, actually, it seems to be a bear filmed from a distance and etc. with the original footage tricked up for hoaxing purposes.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Did The Egyptians Trade In Pygmy Mammoths

Palaeozoologist Darren Naish does one of his terrific Cryptozoology posts on the small, hairy, elephanty thingy in the tomb-painting above. Was it a pygmy mammoth from Wrangel Island, one of late surviving-dwarf species from around the Mediterranean, or just bad drawing?