Best Thylacine Sightings

A TEAM of Tasmanian thylacine trackers has released footage of what they believe is proof a population of thylacines continues to live in the island state. The Tasmanian tiger a member of the Thylacinus genus family of marsupials was the only species of its genus to survive to modern times.

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The Tasmanian Government department received eight separate reports of thylacine sightings some seen with cubs often at dusk or dawn in the northern and western parts of the state.

Best thylacine sightings. Tassie tiger hunter Neil Waters pictured from the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia released a video of coloured pictures of the elusive animals on Monday. The series of images and videos taken at a secret location in southern Tasmania are being touted as. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators.

Don Stephens and Associates SourceNews Corp. We are still seeking to verify more recent sightings. However sadly there have been no confirmed sightings documented of the thylacine since 1936 A Tasmanian tiger at Hobart Zoo in 1936.

There have been hundreds of Tasmanian Tiger Thylacine sightings in Western Australia South Australia Victoria Queensland New South Wales and even Northern Territory as recent as 2018. In a press release from the Tasmania Department of Primary Industries Parks Water and Environment eight sightings of the thylacine have been reported since 2016 with two in 2019 alone. Sorry folks the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery says the recent Thylacine sighting was most likely Tasmanian pademelons.

There have been iconic regional Myths and Monsters recorded all over Australia since European colonisation. Over 40 thylacine Tasmanian tiger sighting reports from Queensland dating from 1871 until the latest thylacine sightings. Scientists declared the thylacine a large striped carnivore that looks like a cross between a wolf a fox and a large cat extinct after the last known live animal died in captivity in 1936.

The Adelaide Hills is a mountainous area east of Adelaide in South Australia with plenty of places for a rare creature to hide and stay hidden. These sightings do not include the most recent sightings of the last five to ten years. Latest Tasmanian tiger sightings In 2005 two German tourists to Tasmania Klaus Emmerichs and Birgit Jansen claimed to have taken pictures of a live Tasmanian tiger.

A point of particular debate is the age of a thylacine carcass found in a cave on the Nullarbor Plain in 1966 so fresh that it still had an intact tongue eyeball and striped fur. The last known live thylacine died in. Good description given bounded into bush the report states.

It maintains almost Loch Ness Monster status with regular claims of unsubstantiated sightings. In 2018 three cyclists said they witnessed a thylacine crossing the road in front of them. Contacted by M who claimed Thylacine sightings were common in Loch Sport a town on a thin neck of land in the Gippsland Lakes wedged between Lake Victoria and the mostly dry Lake Reeve.

In November 2017 three investigators including Adrian Richardson who has been hunting for the Thylacine for 26 years captured video of what they claim is a Tasmanian tiger in Hobart. The photo Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia president Neil Waters is hinging on being a Tasmanian tiger. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia SourceSupplied.

Most data was collected from old material. It said there have been eight sightings reported in the past three years. Many people have asked for a thylacine sighting map.

That same year a government plant biologist saw what they believed to be a Tasmanian tiger Thylacinus cynocephalus or thylacine from 30 meters 100 feet away in a remote area. This is the statement TMAG provided me. He claimed to have seen a Thylacine six times since June 1994 on land behind his house which backed onto the ti-tree area bordering Lake ReeveHe believed that he had seen three different animals.

That is not easy as we have to go to the area and also try to validate people time and place. Today the thylacine still remains a major component of Tasmanian culture. Neil Waters the founder and head of the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia TAGOA and one of the best-known seekers of the thylacine posted that eyewitness report on the groups Facebook page this week.

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