[stupidcar]

I remember reading a cryptozoological theory that there could still be some mammoths left, hidden in the vastness of Siberia. Absurd, obviously, but I always thought you could make a great film about a ragtag crew searching for the last remaining mammoth tribe in the wilderness.

[choeger]

Actually that idea is intuitively easy to understand once you consider how large Siberia is. It's hard to imagine humans could extinguish any species there, even one that's so hard to miss.

But if course, we don't really know how Mammoths lived, how far they travelled, where and when they bred, etc.

Maybe all humans had to do was wait on some river crossings in a specific time of the year because some instincts told the Mammoths to traverse that route every year before mating season. Or maybe we didn't extinguish Mammoths and they died from some contagion (why should that only happen to humans?).

[dylan604]

One country has a legend of mammoths. One country has Loch Ness monster. Another has sasquatch. Another has yeti. Some even have dragons or sea creatures.

[edgyquant]

>mammoths, Loch Ness monster, sasquatch, yeti, dragons or sea creatures

One of these is not like the others

[dylan604]

next, you're going to tell me that ships are not going to fall of the edge of the world where the map shows 'here be dragons'

[habeebtc]

Oh yeah, that theory started with an obviously bogus video.