Footage emerges of 'live woolly mammoth' © REUTERS/Lou Dematteis Footage has emerged of what appears to be a woolly mammoth fording a river in a remote part of Siberia. Despite being believed to be extinct for over 10,000 years, the film, apparently taken by a Russian engineer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region, shows a reddish, elephant shaped creature in the middle of a fast flowing stream. Paranormal writer Michael Cohen obtained the footage. He says rumours that a handful of mammoths still lived in the vast wilderness of Siberia had been "circulating for decades." "Siberia is an enormous territory and much of it remains completely unexplored and untouched by humans," he added. The grainy footage cannot be verified. However, there is no native Russian population of elephants, so any creature in the area must either have been a zoo, lab or private collection escapee - or have wandered several thousand miles from its native habitat.