They think, Thats not a cat. We failed to find any other prints hereabouts, yet it is very likely that these mystery marsupial carnivores will return to the area at some stage. It had a large head with golden eyes and widely separated rounded ears. 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. It was an animal of similar size as I saw and it passed in front of their car so close that both thought it was certain to be hit. They were somewhat smaller than a German Sheppard dog, much larger than a fox and one individual was smaller and was standing in front of the larger animal. ", "Pete, of Ocean Shores, was recently talking to his neighbour, Steve, who also has a farm at Wooyung directly adjacent the caravan park. There was some excitement online yesterday as word spread that a family of thylacines was potentially caught on camera. The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct decades ago, so a confirmed sighting would certainly be cause for celebration. More formally known as thylacines, the species is also known as the Tasmanian wolf or Tasmanian tiger due to both their resemblance to a wolf and the striped pattern along the back half of their bodies. At the base of the tail there was an orange ring about 50 mm wide and it was followed by 6 to 8 yellow rings about 40 mm wide. A fuller account of his sighting can be found on his website: "On Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15 pm, a female companion and I were driving along the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath toward Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. It then ran off under a barb wire fence to disappear into the regrowth vegetation.". The animal turned to look at the women in the car. The channel's videos have racked up a total of4.5 million views. It was greyhound in size, covered in a dirty golden-brown short fur with no distinct stripes and a long tail that sloped down to the ground and back up again. It measured 14.3 cm in length by 3c m width.". It then ran across the road as I pulled up. Will this be the incredible news so It had a rigid tail. Spooky to see the drawing on the web site and realise what it might be!", "the tasmania tiger is thriving around bilambil Hieghts Inner bushland, it was spotted only a couple of weeks ago by 2 well educated people driving up hogans road, it ran across the road into the bushland, description was a huge tan brown dog cat like creature with black stripes down it side, they said it didnt look like a dog and was much bigger but did resemble a big cat panther like but simarlarities of both, thet said it was fast but they still got plenty of vision of this creature", "During May 2010 a female Thylacine and cub were seen moving through bushland not far from Wombeyan Caves by campers. The Thylacine was distributed broadly across Tasmania prior to settlement by He passed it and stopped the car but it had disappeared into the bush by the time he looked back. "No-one who worked at the zoo ever knew it by that name," he said. These tracks were however barely half an hour old, and we were able to follow the movements of the Thylacine, observing how it had emerged from a nearby gully to move through foliage to the muddy shoreline, and walk along it for some metres, before stopping to drink at the waters edge, then return the way it had come. A large excerpt, possibly the entirety of the paper, is given at the Thylacine Museum website: "During the CSIRO Entomological Expedition, November 1949, I had the good fortune of seeing the animal on the route from Bourke to Wanaaring, in an uninhabited area a few miles past the Warrego Rivers, where I was collecting on the right-hand side of the road, only a few yards from the road. All rights reserved. And Waters isn't budging. I could tell by its fur. It scratched itself with its hind leg like a dog. And I click on it, and go, Oh, its a cat. But thats interesting, because that little thumbnail is effectively what people are seeing from 100 yards or so away. Western Australian Naturalist 10(7): 171-172. The stone missed its mark and the animal, looking up, saw the people and ran at great speed up the slope with a very unusual gait. ", "Not long after this experience I learnt that, between December 1971 and throughout January 1972, there had been a spate of sightings of an animal, or animals, answering to the description of the Thylacine, near Blackheath along the Great Western Highway in the vicinity of our sighting. In other words, the thylacine either died out only two decades ago or astonishingly still persists. He reported I can say that what I saw did not look like anything I have witnessed before. There is a maze of crevices and caverns in which any animal could live unseen, and it was into this gully that the tiger tracks led. These were of a chocolaty-brown colourand not very obvious. Last week there was a stir in activity relating to Thylacines still being alive in Tasmania. However, in a statement from TMAG, Mr Mooney rejected Mr Waters' identification of the animals as thylacines. the story of the thylacine took a different turn. Supplied:Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. There was blood on the wire and wooden framework and a trail of paw prints led from there down a bush track. 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. The species was granted protected status just 59 days before the death of Benjamin, the last known thylacine, which died in Hobart zoo from suspected neglect onSeptember 7, 1936. The animals body fur, he noticed, was a gingery brown, with a large head. Or so they thought. But the tinny-sipping South Australian Tassie tiger hunter, who filmed the clip wandering around northern Tasmanian bushland, was quickly shutdown, with the museum there ruling the photos were likely of a pademelon. "Once you've got the Tasmanian devil genome and you know what needs to be changed to match the thylacine, that's the way to go.". 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. It was about the size of a dingo but had a long staight tail with distinctive stripes down its back & sides. Mar 1, 2021. Shannon later described the animal to me as being about 1.5 metres in length from head to tail. In his announcement video, Waters said he and the committee of the thylacine group had discovered the photographs from a camera in north-east Tasmania. In 2016, they posted a video to YouTube shot on a phone in the Adelaide Hills that they believed showed a thylacine. It then chased one of them across the neighbours garden. Does the Tasmanian tiger still exist? It displayed no fear and was the gentlest sweetest creature I have ever seen. (1985). It looked just like that". The animal walked from the right hand side of the road turned and looked at the vehicle a couple of times, it said. * Its head was weird shaped with a long jaw/snout. (p. 26), "The Newnes Plateau country has lately [2015-2016] been the scene of a few tiger sightings, and paw prints finds which may, or may not have been made by Thylacines. Devotees of the extinct Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, were abuzz this week with the potential new discovery that, if confirmed would have brought the animal back from the dead. It didnt taper, or wag. He said it had stripes & a sloping back. "The same type of animal was seen killing a sheep in Megalong Valley in January 1987. It had a sharp face, full ears, a hard erect rather round body, high in the shoulders, tall lean thin legs, long thin hard looking tail and the faintest glimpse of darker stripes around the body.". It was not a fox, wild dog or Dingo or Quoll!!. All the patients I mentioned it to were not surprised. 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.". It was trotting quickly with a stiff legged gait. An anonymous report made to REPAD by a male witness: "I was driving home from work along Freemans drive about 3km from Freeman's waterhole at approx. We then mentioned it in passing to the bus driver on the way back to the airport and he said there had been some sightings of thylacine-like animals in the area over the years that he had heard of. Mr Waters said he had already shown the footage of the three animals to experts, including a vet and canine and feline "judges". 198-208], "1982, Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, Greys Lane, Tyagarah, Uki and Terania Creek; Rabbit observed 5 times at 5 different locations as above, a thylacine-like animal with a striped rump, always around 4 a.m. when driving before first light on his delivery rounds. [chapter title: Thylacines, pp. 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. We believe that the first image is the mum, we know the second image is the baby, because its so tiny, and the third image is the dad.. However, sadly, there have been no confirmed sightings documented of the thylacine since 1936. Mar 1, 2021. He informed me that on the previous night, something had visited his farm [where he grew apples and raised poultry], leaving paw prints in mud around his dam, situated amid dense bush with a gully below it to the north, which led down into the Kanimbla Valley. It had sandy coloured fur, a stubby muzzle and a long tail. The head, he observed, appeared too big for the body, and from the mid-back to the tail rump were faint black coloured body stripes.". Thats because when I was checking the SD cards I found some photos that were pretty damn good. "They have been working on that project now for probably about 15 years.". She had to slam the brakes on to prevent hitting it. ", Source:https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_thylacine_casts.html, "If it was what I believe it was, this was not to be my only encounter with a creature of this description, for on Christmas Eve 1983, I was walking in bush near Govetts Leap with my son, David and his wife Kay in afternoon light, when we all spotted the same type of animal moving through bushes. In that article I described my 1972 night-time encounter in a car being driven by a woman who was driving me to my [then] North Katoomba home. It was about 5ft [1.53m] in length from head to tail, which, was stiff with no point. "Given that the thylacine has not been seen for 85 years, the likelihood it is something else is by far the most logical conclusion," says Andrew Pask, a marsupial evolutionary biologist at the University of Melbourne. I decided that this was not a wallaby but, from its distinctive body shape, a carnivorous marsupial. The thylacine became extinct in the 1960s or did it? No stripes but a hint of black on legs and ears, white muzzle, like you might see on an elderly dog, black nose. He said when they stopped it ran out onto the road behind them and froze for a moment also looking at them before dashing off into the forest. Later, above the gully, during a detailed search for more evidence we came across tracks of a full-grown animal, an apparent female, beside which were the smaller tracks of a young cub. It seems unlikely hes lying, Brook says, because he could have fabricated a far more compelling account if hed wanted to. ", "2003, Byron Bay on the coastal road to Ballina 2ks past the Lennox Head turnoff; Doof daddy contacted the ABC radio station to say that about 5 years ago in 2003 he was returning to Byron Bay from Ballina along the coastal road after work in the early hours of the morning. Steve mentioned to Pete that he and his family have seen thylacines on his farm on occasions. "I will always remain an optimist that this is going to happen, [especially] as the technology continues to advance," he said. The Thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ), or Tasmanian tiger, is an icon of recent extinctions, but the timing of its final demise is shrouded in controversy. There were capture records from the south-west under the bounty system, he says. Theres something about thylacines that makes you want to believe in them.. Its eyes were pale green reflecting in our weak head torches. I decided to examine the animal carefully before risking movement. The fur was short, with a sandy beige colour. Thursday 13. As my lights were on the animal it bounced off into the bush unlike any dog I've ever seen. It was not a Facebook group, and I don't remember what the organisation was called. "A STRANGE animal resembling a Tasmanian tiger has a NSW farmer scratching his head. or maybe they aint.". Listen to some of the brightest names in science and technology talk about the ideas and breakthroughs shaping our world. Subscribe to our channel. The thylacine has been used extensively as a symbol of Tasmania. Dinosaur mass extinction: what caused it, which dinosaurs went extinct, and how mammals survived, International Union for Conservation of Nature. With 78 contributors, including 58 with a PhD, it is set to be the new definitive volume on the species for many years to come, and includes the last two pieces the late Col Bailey ever wrote on the thylacine among many others. In search of mountain tigers. "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. Although it could possibly be a fox or bird, when I looked up the sound a thylacine makes, it was identical to one we found on YouTube. The impressions had been made early that morning." In a statement, TMAG said Mooney had concluded that based on the physical characteristics shown in the photos provided, the animals are very unlikely to be thylacines, and most likely Tasmanian pademelons. north of Grose Valley] accompanied by expert bushmen Rod Gerney and Robert Ashworth and several assistants in a convoy of four-wheel drive vehicles.. These tracks were at least several hours old. (2021). 11 animal species that have come back fom the brink of extinction. If he verifies it, then it is confirmed!! ", "1989, Terania Creek Road, The Channon; running across the road at night in front of his car, Peter saw a thylacine-like animal showing distinct dark brown banding across the body. Feb 28, 2021. Rather excited about the whole thing I tried officially reporting it to the ranger, who showed absolutely no interest in the matter, as you might expect. June 2003, about 8.30pm to 845pm, Robyn Simon was driving with a friend, Rebecca Jackson, on Acacia Street past Katoomba. Another report given to Samantha came from a woman called Gail who worked at Durrumbul preschool and who had seen one crawl from beneath the preschool building and walk in a hopping way. It was only about a metre or two in front of my car. She was able to get a good clear look at it because it was so close. It walked, trotted and loped. The animal was growling aggressively at this time. Waters uploaded the latest video, titled "THYLACINE JOEY PHOTO" on Sunday, in which he reveals the three images that he believes are likely the extinct marsupials and not a cat or pademelon. Based on the physical characteristics shown in the photos provided by Mr. Mar 1, 2021. WebWhile thylacine watchers say the number of sightings in South Australia alone is up to four in 2021, a new study gives hope By and large, academics and wildlife conservationists have kept out of the debate, or at least not voiced strong opinions either way. Yet, when I went to the Lithgow Police Station to report my sighting, all they did was laugh at me and said I was crazy", Author?. [The Thylacine was surely a male, females beingmore thickset - RG]. Then it just loped off the road into the yard, Robyn noticed the tail itself was 2ft [61 cm] in length. TMAG regularly receives requests for verification from members of the public who hope that the thylacine is still with us. WebMYS251: The Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger lived in Australia for thousands of years, but went extinct in 1936. The results sent shockwaves through the wildlife conservation establishment. Im dead-set sure the damn thing was not a fox, dingo or dog and Im positive about the zebra-like stripes down the back. In the age of smartphones and cameras, you never know what you might capture. Its body looked roundish and the head appeared out of proportion to the body with massive jaws.". It stood there looking towards my vehicle as I stopped to see if I could get a good look at it. The tail went downward toward the ground, said John. Much is made of the apparent banding -- or stripes -- on this creature, but Mooney believes these are "a combination of narrow shadows(from sticks and cutting grass) and natural parts in the fur.". To the west of here, outside Capertee, at least two of these elusive forest-dwellers have been claimed seen by campers on separate occasions.". We had all agreed that it was too large for a feral cat, and too odd in shape as well, and that was certainly true in a number of respects. The following short blog post was posted to the A.C.R.O. I saw the animal from a somewhat oblique angle, and the head was not clearly visible. The tapered tail and we could see the faint stripes. We began our expedition on Saturday 24th September 1983. * Im not sure I saw stripes across its back, but its colouring across the top of its rear 1/4 was darker than the rest. By signing up, you will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our. "Mr Turner told us that, in 1973, he was driving along the Great Western Highway from Katoomba to Blackheath late one night when, near the [now demolished] Katoomba Piggery at Bathurst Road, and opposite the railway lines bordering the water catchment, he saw in his headlights what he was certain was a Thylacine, as it ran from the railway lines across the highway in front of his car, heading in the direction of the Megalong Valley. Should we bring the mammoths back from extinction? "On Saturday night, 4th October 1986, Mr Mike Davis was driving from Lithgow past Mount Victoria township. Nearby residents Allan & Maureen also observed the animal. As we approached the turnoff to Evans Lookout, and on the corner of the local city council water catchment fence [left side of road going south] which encloses a vast area of scrubland, we saw in the glare of the cars headlights a strange animal. The guy on duty looked at me as if I was some sort of crank who had just reported a Martian, but at least gave me a book to leaf through to see if I could recognize the species. Zabloc saw an animal near the Minyon Falls turnoff on Repentance Creek Road that could have been a Thylacine. She stated that it looked funny and very skinny and moved weird-like. Fortean Times 25: 36. which is not far from Sydney's International airport and along the shores of Botany Bay. His unit has already assembled the first complete genome of the Tasmanian tiger after using DNA from thylacines that had been preserved in alcohol. Want CNET to notify you of price drops and the latest stories? They never did see any sign of it again. Things kicked off on February 22nd with a video from Neil Waters, president of TAGOA (Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia. It came from the left hand side up the slope, crossed the road & then leapt up the bank. Source: Cronshaw, Damon. This is the only report of a mother and its young.". What were probably the same pair were seen by Winmalee residents moving about in scrub behind St Columba's College. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. Her neck was longthe entire body lithe. We observed it for about 10 minutes from between 10 to 20 meters away. near the narrowest point of Narrow Neck, which is used by so many other marsupials. Ina 2021 statement from TMAG, Mr Mooney rejected Mr Waters's identification of the animals as thylacines. The thylacine was commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, due to the distinctive stripes on its back. "In October 1995, Mr Bob Donaldson was driving friends to Blackheath from Katoomba around 1am. ", "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. Copyright 2023 The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database. Its body was sloped and the tail followed the slope. ", "1997, 4am, Uki; Peter described his sighting of 1997 on the Murwillumbah Road to Uki near the intersection with Mount Warning Road at 4am when he observed what at first he thought was a fox on the side of the road. In 2018, two people from Western Australia reported seeing a thylacine while visiting Tasmania, according to the state environment departments report. It disappeared behind the fig tree and did not re emerge. Wilfred Batty of Mawbanna, Tasmania, with the last thylacine known to have been shot in the wild. Mr Pereira also found a pile of excrement left by the animal. There were nine of us in all, and about to sleep when, to our utter astonishment, a creature boldly emerged from bushes and walked up to our campfire remains. All I thought at the time was, what is this? Rex Gilroy believes so. My attention was caught by the movement of something about 60 meters away that at first glance I thought was a medium sized feral dog standing head down in short grass roughly 15 meters from the eucalypt scrub that borders the paddock like plains of the area. Mount Victoria locals were asking themselves if more than one tiger was responsible for these killings. He said the creature had at least 19 black body stripes, extending from mid-back to tail-rump and was about 1.52 metres long from nose to tail-tip. ", "One night during June 1984 Mr Cedrick Mansley was driving on the Jenolan Caves Road, when a striped-bodied animal ran across the road ahead of his vehicle, clearly visible in the glare of the headlights. Was it a tiger? "We live on a sugar cane farm close to Murwillumbah in North Eastern NSW. Both are 100% certain that the animal they saw was a thylacine. 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. It walked like a dog and its unusual tail did not look out of proportion with its body. I looked for prints. 27.07 - MU Plus+ Podcast - Flames of Prophecy, 29.07 - MU Podcast - Contract with the Goddess, 29.06 - MU Podcast - Italian Disco Abductions, 27.06 - MU Plus+ Podcast - Secret Vaults of Time, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Queen's Ghost, Small Lake Monster, Space Caterpillar and More Mysterious News Briefly, A Haunted Book and the Most Haunted Bookshop There Is. [Available from Lulu]. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia YouTube, posted a video to YouTube claiming he had discovered a "family" of thylacines on camera traps. User "SoulNavigator" reported in the comment section about a sighting they and a relative had while driving: "20 years ago myself , my brother and his wife drove from Brisbane to melbourne via inland route. The time was 11.30am. while I was speechless at what I saw. Plaster casts were made and later matched with others found in Tasmania in 1974 whose peculiar paw structure identified them as thylacine. In the case of Naarding, an experienced park ranger, you can rule out the idea that he made a mistake so either he deliberately faked the account, or he dreamt it. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), abc.net.au/news/tasmanian-tiger-sightings-resurrected-genetic-engineering/101340706, Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this article, Supplied: The National Museum of Australia, Supplied:Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. "Nick Mooney has concluded that based on the physical characteristics shown in the photos provided by Mr Waters, the animals are very unlikely to be thylacines and are most likely Tasmanian pademelons," the statement said. Other residents in the area, however, did not share this explanation. She stated Im an artist and I paint native animals and the gait of this animal meant that it was a marsupial, not a dog or a cat. Head Down Under, and youll find quite different wildlife to what we have here in Europe. He said the animal, which he claimed could not be confused with a dog, was the size of a fox, with the head of a kangaroo and had a thick striped tail which tapered at the end. Luckily, we were too busy to follow it up, but this animal is definitely at home on our 40 acres. In the video uploaded on Monday, Mr Waters claimed to have captured footage of not one, but three thylacines proof, he said, "of breeding". El Farallon Owner Killed, Or, had it found its way up the cliffs via a steep slope, like the Devils Hole, to establish itselfsomewhere in a lair deep in the fern and bush-choked cliff tops on the western side of Cliff Drivewithin view of Narrow Neck Plateau? When Naarding reached for his camera bag after several minutes, the movement spooked the creature, and it slunk away into the undergrowth.
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