WASHINGTON – No, it wasn’t Ray Romano trudging through a river in the Siberian adaptation of “Ice Age.” But some say the mammoth apparition was just that: A woolly mammoth.

An engineer allegedly caught footage of the extinct beast last summer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region, reports The Sun.

The elephantine creature is thought to have died out about 4,000 years ago, but the new video suggests that might not be the case, says paranormal writer Michael Cohen.

“Rumors of a handful of mammoths still kicking around in the vast wilderness of Siberia have been circulating for decades and occasionally sightings by locals have occurred,” he tells The Sun. “Siberia is an enormous territory and much of it remains completely unexplored and untouched by humans.”

Click here to watch the video. Does it look real or is it an elaborate hoax?

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