But on Feb. 23, TMAG and Mooney released a statement explaining the creature snapped in the footage was most likely a Tasmanian pademelon, a short, stout marsupial similar to a wallaby. The only other truly carnivorous marsupials are the Tasmanian devil, which is about the size and shape of a bull terrier, and various species of quoll, the largest of which is about cat-sized. Mr Waters said he had already shown the footage of the three animals to experts, including a vet and canine and feline "judges". Eye reflection was pale yellow. ", "25th February 2006, Saturday night, 11 pm, Palm Avenue in Mullumbimby; Kali saw a strange animal running across the road. "If these were videos not stills there would have been no question.". According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world authority on rare and threatened species, the thylacine a dog-sized predatory marsupial also known as the Tasmanian tiger was extinct in 1982. "November 1997, Upper Durobby Creek; in the foothills of the Macpherson Ranges, Dennis, a neighbour of Jan, phoned my Wildlife Talkback programme to describe a similar animal. By and large, academics and wildlife conservationists have kept out of the debate, or at least not voiced strong opinions either way. These superficially resembled those of a dog, but displayed marsupial features. It had mousy-brown body fur, and blackish body stripes that extended from the mid-back to the rump of the tail on a greyhound-like [ie thin] body. Expeditions have also been organised to search for the thylacine in the Tasmanian wilderness. Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) Sighting Reports Database - The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database After several fruitless nights, however, he retired to bed on the evening of 14th June. The name thylacine roughly translates from Greek via Latin as dog-headed pouched one. During the course of our search we uncovered a sandstone shoal containing water pools with ancient Aboriginal stone axe grinding grooves, and a rock shelter containing surface stone flakes manufactured around 6,000 years ago. We all believed we had seen a Tasmanian Tiger. The animals watched the approaching car for a few seconds and then raced off into the bush. I wondered through my work day trying to figure out what the hell I had just sighted, and next day I went round to the local National Parks office to ask about it. "26th January 2006, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; at around 6 a.m. (Australia Day) Russel was driving from Ocean Shores to Brunswick Heads. The museumestimates that atleast 3,500 thylacines were killed through human hunting between 1830 and the 1920s. "The problem is people say there's so much dense bush in Tasmania, and that's true," Professor Archer said. On a bike ride to the beach they had a good look at what both thought may have been a Tasmanian tiger as ridiculous as that sounds, stated Andrew. WebEXCEL RIM U:22820643:EXCEL RIM EXCEL RIM: U - - PayPay One witness, ranger Peter Simon. ", "The Minto Monster was back in the news again in 1973 when claims that a mysterious creature had been 'terrorising' East Minto residents with its blood curdling screams. Ummm but then I started thinking about it you know, what was it that I saw? Before it vanished off the roadside I noticed its length, about 5ft, the body stripes were blackish and ran from the middle of the back to the rump of the tail upon reddish-brown coloured body fur.". The last close sighting was about 6 months ago and it was right by our car on our forest drive. It was shaped like a kangaroos tail, but held straight out behind instead of dragging on the ground. But in 2021, the story of the thylacine took a different turn. It had a feline-like face and a long body & tail, from snout to tail tip at least one & a half metre in length, covered with yellow tawny fur. Mooneys conclusion will come as a blow to thylacine enthusiasts who were convinced they finally had the evidence they needed. It walked, going from tree to tree, looking up into the trees. Looking at the baby, not only we do we have a family walking through the bush but we have proof of breeding.. "On Saturday night, 4th October 1986, Mr Mike Davis was driving from Lithgow past Mount Victoria township. It was a Tasmanian Tiger. New South Wales(180 reports; +2 border reports), Queensland(63 reports; +1 border report). To say I was astonished would be an understatement. I tried to explain it to people for years but couldn't. Dogs and wolves are more closely related to elephants than they are to thylacines. It was grey/brown with a lighter underside, especially under the chin. I was driving south about 20 min into a 9 hr drive home to Melbourne when a 'thing' with the strangest walk/run burst from the scrub straight across the road, in front of me & a White landcruiser ute travelling the other way. Both animals disappeared within seconds into the rainforest.". It then ran off under a barb wire fence to disappear into the regrowth vegetation.". I then looked in the rearview mirrow to see the Landcruiser doing the same, confirming to me that what ever I saw was wierd!. "Rex claimed he saw a thylacine on Tuesday, February 22, 1972 at 10.15pm on the Great Western Highway, south of Blackheath. In the video, Waters says there are several features that point to this being a Tasmanian tiger and not a pademelon, as Mooney suggests. Source:Cronshaw, Damon. Wendy Bithell recounted her possible thylacine encounter near Byron Bay on the documentary series Boogeymen, season 2, episode 11, entitled "The Tasmanian Tiger: The Tiger, Wolf, Kangaroo Hybrid". It was 60 to 70 cm high and covered with short ginger-blond short hair with a narrow, small triangular-shaped head, a long thin neck, a long straight, thin tail that was as long as the animal. The animal turned to look at the women in the car. It had stripes and a thin tail stuck straight out. ", "2003, Upper Main Arm; bush regenerator Mark had a close observation of a thylacine-like animal at midday and observed its striped back and stiff tail as it stood near the roadside. The Australian island state is roughly four-fifths the size of Ireland, with vast uninhabited and rarely visited areas, especially in the west and south-west. In fact, footage snapped by camera traps or amateur naturalists can help establish the presence and activity patterns of animals in the environment, said Holly English, a doctoral student in wildlife ecology and behavior at University College Dublin. north of Grose Valley] accompanied by expert bushmen Rod Gerney and Robert Ashworth and several assistants in a convoy of four-wheel drive vehicles.. "TMAG regularly receives requests for verification from members of the public who hope that the thylacine is still with us. As my lights were on the animal it bounced off into the bush unlike any dog I've ever seen. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 2022(August): 5-14. She said she saw a mutant dog. "No-one who worked at the zoo ever knew it by that name," he said. After shaking our heads in disbelief, we were the ones who left, having finished our fishing and as we left we were able to see it walking around in the distance.", "Also around this time, Russel and Michael were walking within the Brunswick Valley Nature Reserve near the flying fox colony and both independently observed thylacine-like animals, one slinking past in front of them & one apparently following them. "This is gonna be the Aussie version of finding big foot," auser commented on a YouTube video from 2016 named Thylacine Sighting SA. His first experience took place in July 1982 when he saw one standing beneath a street light at 5.45am, as he was walking up a road. The most remarkable feature was the strange manner of running: although the animal was swinging regularly sideways, the hind part of the body made a kind of bobbing up and down movement; the impression was as if the animal was drunk, as I had never seen anything like it. By this time our car was but a few feet from the animal which just stood there staring at our vehicle, mesmerised by the headlights' glare. In 2016, they posted a video to YouTube shot on a phone in the Adelaide Hills that they believed showed a thylacine. When you purchase domain names from register.hostgator.com, check the box next to: "Set Custom Nameservers (Optional)" in the domains cart and add your desired name servers. A Mum, Dad and Joey! Or, had it found its way up the cliffs via a steep slope, like the Devils Hole, to establish itself, somewhere in a lair deep in the fern and bush, choked cliff tops on the western side of Cliff Drive, It could have come from the Neck in the first place, up the waterfall gully from Megalong. ", "November 2005, 9 pm, Coorabell; Samantha saw a lion coloured creature with kangaroo like back legs hop into the bush on the Coorabell Federal Road. It was in clear view for 12-15 seconds. near the narrowest point of Narrow Neck, which is used by so many other marsupials. To add to the challenge, about 40% of Tasmania is protected reserves. The protected area of Tasmania, therefore, is equivalent to three Yellowstones, which is ample room to keep the mystery of the thylacine alive and kicking for a few decades yet. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. However in the dense scrub we came across signs of a scuffle over a large area, between a wild pig and a thylacine, as indicated by thee dozens of tracks embedded in the soil. ", "1999, Federal; Graham and Rosalind had a close view of a strange animal when driving between Whian Road and Bates Road near the old Dip when the headlights illuminated it. Zabloc saw an animal near the Minyon Falls turnoff on Repentance Creek Road that could have been a Thylacine. ", "The Winter of 2022 will be remembered by Heather and I for the number of Blue Mountains bushland sightings of of Thylacines at least a dozen. Despite the fact that he frequently works in remote parts of Tasmania and has an interest in the thylacine, Brook says he hasnt spoken to many people with credible encounters to report. By signing up, you will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our. It then chased one of them across the neighbours garden. the story of the thylacine took a different turn. Does the Tasmanian tiger still exist? Newcastle Herald, 2 March. These tracks were at least several hours old. Newcastle Herald, 8 March. The fur was short, with a sandy beige colour. While improbable, the aggregate data and modelling suggest some chance of ongoing persistence in the remote wilderness of the island.. "Sunday 22nd June, 3.00 p.m. 2008, Mooball; Scott Green, editor of the Weekly News, while out riding his bicycle along Wooyung Road towards Mooball, approaching the old railway bridge, spotted what he believes was a thylacine. He had a second sighting in or around 2012 (NSW.c2012.xx.xx). It stood half a metre tall and was about 1 metre in length from nose tip to tail. The animals body fur, he noticed, was a gingery brown, with a large head. ", "July 2011, 9.30 pm, Falls Road, Nimbin; Ms. Tarang Bates was driving home from Lismore when she saw an animal, covered in grey-fawn fur with dark stripes, unlike anything that she had ever seen before. He described it as having a head and body about 1 m long with a longish pointed tail about 60cm long. It had stripes and blue eyes, and I now realise when I look back that it was a thylacine I reckon. "30th December 2008, 6:15 am, 5-37 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay, NSW. Other experts don't think the images were really worth the wait. All Rights Reserved. It was the movement of its pelvis and its shyness and the way it dropped its head and pushed its pelvis up and hopped into the bush that alerted me to the fact that this was a different animal to any Id seen before. Rex's documentary on the species, starting with this sighting: "Back in May 1972 a Sydney bushwalker, Mr Noel Wright, got the surprise of his life, when a Thylacine emerged from ferns to stand momentarily on the track between Ruined Castle and Mount Solitary. It was the vocalization that really threw me. They see the back end of an animal, they see the colour and their mind fills in the rest. The striped-bodied animal was too large to have been anything else. There is no doubt in our minds that the creatures we saw were Tasmanian Tigers, said Sam.". Driving on deeper into the range we stopped to investigate an extensive tract of swampland, whose muddy shoreline contained paw prints of wombats, wallabies, bandicoots, possums and dingos. At one particular spot we came across paw prints unlike any of the others and certainly not those of any dog. I walked to the spot were the animal had been and found a small dead wombat "gutted", a very strange sight for the plains. I had slowed for a couple of hundred rabbits and was just starting up again in my old morris minor 1000 when I came at slow speed, 15mph in 1977 upon a second group and right in the middle was a young tasmanian tiger with a poined head, kangaroo like fur and a long thin tail it sat facing me mesmerized by the lights as were the rabbits. It occured roughly 30km from the first, some twenty years earlier. The animal retreated into bush at the top of a gully.". It looked to be Alsatian dog-sized and he saw the familiar dark body stripes of a Thylacine. Theres a tangible sense that it was here, and that we should have saved it while we had the opportunity.. This is not the first purported Tasmanian tiger footage Mr Waters and TAGOA have released. An enigmatic report of an animal called a "hyena", which was one of the colonial names for the thylacine, killed in 1803: "Two animals of the hyena kind were seen at Campbell's Island by hunting parties belonging to the Mary and Sally ; from the description given of which they appear to have been of the same species with an animal killed at Port Phillip in 1803.". Before leaving they went for a walk along the rivers edge on a bush track. Source:Paramanov, S. J. (1968). Theres something about thylacines that makes you want to believe in them.. It reminded them of a Fossa or a civet and definitely was not a fox, dog or cat. Later, back in Canberra, I came across an illustration of the Tasmanian Tiger, and immediately recognised it as the animal I had observed on my trip. I have all the images in a little thumbnail directory, and with the cats, I often do a double-take and think, Whats that? he says. The domain will be registered with the name servers configured from the start. My brothers wife and I were in the front. The Tasmanian tiger: the misunderstood marsupial that scientists want to bring back from the dead. Yet if you hold a thylacine and dog skull together, youve got to know what you are looking for to be able to tell them apart, says Brook. The encounter was kept secret while an intense search for thylacines was initiated in the surrounding area, but nothing was ever discovered. Its body looked roundish and the head appeared out of proportion to the body with massive jaws.". A short time later a bakery representative from the Gold Coast also saw the animal & commented to Sue about it.". She was in good condition, no ribs showing. Now he has the best job in the world, telling stories about space, the planet, climate change and the people working at the frontiers of human knowledge. He has since co-authored a book on mainland thylacines with his wife: Gilroy, Rex and Gilroy, Heather. The farm owner yelled out Its a monster, we will have to kill it and picking up a stone, threw it at the strange animal. It was not a dog; it was larger than most dogs and had a barrel-shaped body and brown fur. Should we bring mammoths back from extinction? "We now have the nuclear genome sequence and the mitochondrial genome sequence of the thylacine. "Sadly there have been no confirmed sightings of the thylacine since 1936.". ", "We were sitting around a campfire for a while, then climbed into our sleeping bags about 10.30pm as the fire turned to embers. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the reports that there are still thylacines in the wild as well as efforts to bring them back through DNA technology. "Back in 1960 Mr Gordon Pereira [of whom more will be said anon] was a NSW Government Railways station assistant, driving his car home from work at Medlow Bath railway station about 10pm when, 1 miles east of the [since demolished] Caltex depot on Whipcord Hill, on the Great Western Highway, an animal which he described as being about greyhound size with a large head, was caught in his headlights as it ran across the highway from the scrubland on the western [Megalong Valley] side to the railway lines, disappearing within seconds. The tail was thickly furred. ", "2003, Wilfred Street, Billinudgel; Sue, owner of the Billinudgel Post Office and the general store, looked into the main street of Billinudgel one morning at 5.30 am and was surprised to see a very unusual animal standing in the middle of the road. It was about 18 inches tall at the shoulders, 4ft in length from head to tail, and it had short body hair of light sandy colour, with a row of dark stripes arranged along the body beginning at the shoulders to the rump of the tail. [a pack of thylacine-like animals seen on the Vic/NSW border in 1977]. I have no doubt that these animals are living somewhere out there in the Glenbrook National Park, from where they enter Glenbrook townships fringes at times in search of food, he said, in an interview with me in 1985. "On the night of Saturday 1st April 2000, 16-year-old Shannon Kus, his mother Marjorie and his mate Brad Miller, were walking home from the Wentworth Falls Country Club. Golf Course, towards its junction with Cliff Drive. The search for the thylacine, much like similar efforts to rediscover other recently extinct charismatic taxa, is likely to be fruitless, especially given that persistence on Tasmania would have been no guarantee the species could reappear in regions that had been unoccupied for millennia, the researchers wrote. oldonload(); // Thylacine sighting in northeast Ohio Thylacine sighting in northeast Ohio. "The Winter of 2022 will be remembered by Heather and I for the number of Blue Mountains bushland sightings of of Thylacines at least a dozen. It scratched itself with its hind leg like a dog. It disappeared behind the fig tree and did not re emerge. ", "During September 1983, I organised a major search for evidence of living Thylacines in the Wollongambie Wilderness, east of Lithgow. Luckily, we were too busy to follow it up, but this animal is definitely at home on our 40 acres. A thylacine eating a rabbit on the side of a road. For 24 hours, the wildlife community was buzzing. Casts made from these tracks would later be successfully compared with Thylacine paw casts from Tasmania, found by another researcher in 1974.The success of our expedition was publicised in the Lithgow Mercury newspaper", "Freshly made paw prints of one or more of these creatures found by ourselves and colleagues at another Blue Mountains location in 1983 and 1984. These were mostly reported by motorists.". Againno familiar dog body language. Two km to the south-west of the Green Frog Caf & general store he and a friend saw in the car headlights an unusual animal cross the road 6 to 12 metres in front of them. It was not a fox, wild dog or Dingo or Quoll!!. The animal had a stiff and firm tail, that was thick at the base. And I identify animals all the time, and so I'm used to looking at something and trying tuh, and working out what it is I'm seeing. However, I had never observed a wallaby engaged in such an unusual activity, stretched out along the ground instead of the normal upright posture or bent down feeding on vegetation. The discovery of the carcase in the area of Eucla, and my observation of the live specimen, convinces me that the animal still exists on the mainland of Australia.". WebMYS251: The Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger lived in Australia for thousands of years, but went extinct in 1936. (2013). I was sitting there going "what was it?". They think, Thats not a cat. His wife was the first of the family to observe the animal, 3 months before while taking their child to the bus stop down their one kilometre long driveway. Over the years we have kept the location of the swamp and gully a closely guarded secret, to give these marsupials an opportunity to increase their numbers, and keep away unwanted human interference. Kim Falconer wrote I heard a loud sound like a cross between a guttural possum noise and a large dog retching. Leaping from his bed, Mr Pereira went torch in hand to investigate his trap. Our sighting lasted only seconds before the animal vanished into roadside bushes, said Darryl.". The fur colour was light brown and there were dark stripes on the body that began at the neck base and extended to the tail rump. )( window, document, 'script', 'dataLayer', 'GTM-W5PMGDG' ); Image in the public domain. It had the strangest tailvery long, like a broom pole. So many people, local and others, came in to describe their sightings. The creature had escaped into scrubland which extends eastward to a gully which drops down into the Grose Valley-where sightings of Thylacine-type animals continue to be reported by campers and bushwalkers to the present day. Theres no doubt in my mind it was a Thylacine, one without stripes (Tassie tigers were reported without stripes in the 1900s) Apparently they have up to a 40km range which they trek each month. This is Opit's summarisation of the report: "1964, May, Monday, 5 a.m. Whian Whian State Forest; Clive gave me a very detailed description of the animal observed twice in 1 week. He reported I can say that what I saw did not look like anything I have witnessed before. Mr Pereira also found a pile of excrement left by the animal. That morning he made plaster casts of the paw prints and also found two small teeth, apparently left by the animal. Why Do People Keep Seeing Them? I have rung and reported this to my local veterinarian.". Waters believes the images show stripes, a straight tail and shiny, leathery hocks -- all features of the thylacine. (1997). Of particular interest was that the animal that he saw had no stripes on the body, though it did have pale bands along the tail. 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In order to point the domain to your server, please login here to manage your domain's settings. However, sadly there have been no confirmed sightings documented of the thylacine since 1936.. Then she found that the woman that worked in the store had recently observed two of the animals chasing and killing a swamp wallaby near her home just a few kms up the valley. The creature, said Shannon, remained there for perhaps 2 to 5 minutes as they stood observing it. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 11(3): 13-30. It has captured the interest of cryptozoologists due to sighting reports which continue to arise to this day. ", Source:https://www.thylacineawarenessgroupofaustralia.com.au/read-tagoa-witness-sighting-reports.htm, Please consider purchasing or sharing my new Kindle eBook on the current biodiversity crisis, to help raise funds for this website: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09P8PQ8N2/, A free Kindle eReader app can be downloaded for PC and Mac users: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/browse.html%3Fnode=8498354051&ref=kcp_fd_hz. Farmer opens up Tassie tiger mystery. Russel observed on two occasions in the same place, families of three very sleek thylacine-like animals with brown lion-like coloured fur, dark bands on the flanks, with long rigid tails held low to the ground, running through the bush. These tracks were cast and later compared with others made from freshly-made paw prints in Tasmania with which they match up. Nevertheless, many Tasmanians have refused to accept that the species has disappeared. Its not a dog, its not a cat. It was huge, almost one metre high. The eyes were very keen, watching in a way domestic dogs do not. ", "1999, Brunswick Heads; Jodi saw a striped animal cross the road between the fish co-op and the highway. For more information, please see this page. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world authority on rare and threatened species, the thylacine a dog-sized predatory marsupial also known as the Tasmanian tiger was extinct in 1982. The last known individual died in 1936 in Hobart Zoo; the last reliable sighting of a wild one dates back to 1933. It was grey with dark grey mottling on its rump like bands, it had distinctive large round ears and was quite unlike a dog or fox. The time was 11.30am. He had seen the animal in the glow of the car headlights when at a sharp bend.

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