It was early morning around 5.30 to 6.00 a.m. when she heard a commotion outside the house as if a dog was fighting with our cats. A study by the University of Melbourne'sAndrew Pask andAxel Newtonconfirms that the two are very distant relatives and have not shared a common ancestor since the Jurassic period, over 160 million years ago. I had a magnificent view of it head on face to face sitting in the middle of the road not much more than 15 feet away. * Its head was weird shaped with a long jaw/snout. It was a Tasmanian Tiger. Photographs of live animals released in 2015 caused a sensation. It had short fur, very stiff, thick at the base (a long broom handle) and it didnt act like a dogs tail. Its not a dog, its not a cat. It was huge, almost one metre high. "1970, Crabbes Creek; schoolteacher Mark was working on a banana farm during the school holidays and as they descended from a forested ridge top at the end of the day, the owners German Shepard dog began growling at something sheltering within an old, partly collapsed banana-packing shed overgrown with vines. The animal moved in a way that I had never encountered before. Last week, one man believed he had evidence to challenge the consensus and then the internet hype machine took over. It looked just like that". ", "1995, Coopers Lane, Main Arm; Hayley observed a golden-fawn animal with a striped tail. There were body stripesextending barrel-wise from the mid-back to the tail rump. "They have been working on that project now for probably about 15 years.". "A STRANGE animal resembling a Tasmanian tiger has a NSW farmer scratching his head. We came to some wild, hilly country covered with scrub and rocks. It had a long thin pointed tail, which pointed down, almost the length of the body. Before leaving they went for a walk along the rivers edge on a bush track. Can you believe that? He stated that it didnt look like some unusual hybrid but a species of carnivorous marsupial. Grabbing his camera Kevin leapt from his car and, as he said later, tore up the embankment after it! After 5 minutes I drove slowly towards it and at about 10 m in front of my car it suddenly pushed with its hind legs and with great power it ran off the road into the vegetation on all four legs. function external_links_in_new_windows_loop() { Uh Pardon Me But Thylacine Truthers Think Theyve Captured A Tassie Tiger Family On Camera, Don't Panic, The Tasmanian Tiger May Not Be So Extinct After All, There Was An Alleged Tassie Tiger Sighting In SA & Im Sure The Hemsworth Bros Are Quaking RN, The Hemsworths Are Funding A Jurassic Park-Style Attempt To Bring The Tassie Tiger Back To Life, Perhaps These Thylacine Dog Coats Will Take Yr Mind Off The Latest Tasmanian Tiger False Alarm, Jeff Lowe, Keen To Leave Joe Exotics Haunted Zoo, Wishes Carole Baskin The Best. an amateur not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the elusive creature, eight claimed sightings of the thylacine between 2016 and 2019. 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. Michael noticed that it had a distinct waddle of the back legs as it walked and he watched it turn away from him and saw that it had a white band at the end of the tail with a black tip. The impression was healthy-lean. Christian Kopp had a second encounter with a thylacine (first: NSW.c1992.xx.xx) while out riding his motorbike. Web3-23-2023 Remains of last known living thylacine found in a cupboard 85 years on 12-5-2022 Should we even be attempting to bring back the thylacine ? I thought it looked a silver colour but it was hard to tell because it was raining.", "5thMarch 2006, Sunday, Left Bank Road, Mullumbimby; Elle and her family saw a strange animal in their garden close to the house and watched it as it ran down to the creek. 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. 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. 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. The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct decades ago, so a confirmed sighting would certainly be cause for celebration. 'Tasmanian tiger' footage not of a thylacine but a pademelon, experts say. As our vehicle came closer they left their prey to dash into roadside scrub. We were driving on xxxx Rd at the time. The first day we spooked it as we drove by a sheep carcass, which it seemed it was feeding on. The back legs were also shorter than the front ones. It was observed from head on and it loped off, almost kangaroo-like with a very unusual movement. The animal stood about 61cm off theground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. There was white around the muzzle and black around the ears. There was no question about it, the animal I had seen was a Thylacine. func(); } More Controversy on the Roswell Affair: An Alien Accident? Its size was that of a medium-sized dog, and the body proportions were also dog-like; it was uniformly grey-brown, with short hair; the strange tail, extremely wide at the base, seemed to be a continuation of the hindquarters; the hind leg was strongly marked with almost black horizontal stripes. ", "2005, South Golden Beach, Kolora Way; Lyndel observed a thylacine-like animal without stripes.". All the patients I mentioned it to were not surprised. 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. It has a distinctly grey striped torso, long pointed muzzle, and a thick rigid tail. The animal turned to look at the women in the car. ", Source:http://acro-research.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/possible-thylacine-or-big-cat-sighting.html?m=1, "2000, Mahers Lane, Terranora; Don saw a long thin dog-like animal with stripes across its back & the base of its long thin tail in the evening as he drove down the road from his home through farmland. Australia has a particularly woeful record of recent mammal extinction, and one of the most infamous was the loss of the Thylacine, a wolf-like marsupial predator, in Tasmania (Brook et al., 2021). 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. "If there were thylacines in Tasmania, there'd be roadkill.". That morning he made plaster casts of the paw prints and also found two small teeth, apparently left by the animal. If you want to post a public comment, you can do that at the bottom of the page. (1968). ", Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20070607040632/http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/000012.html, "1992 Ewingsdale; Tony saw a creature on a bright and sunny mid-morning 50 metres away that he was at a total loss to identify. The dog and the people chased the animal into a large hollow log where it crouched to stare at them. Is it even vaguely plausible that there are still thylacines in Tasmania? I went back to England shortly afterwards but on my recent return to Australia the article by Samela Harris on the sightings of the thylacien and the resulting correspondence makes me wonder whether what we saw could have been a marsupial tiger or wolf. March 3, 2021 - 2:39PM Whether you think the photos the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia released this week are actually of a Tasmanian tiger family or not doesnt matter. The animal had escaped into scrubland that extends eastward to a gully, which drops down into the Grose Valley, where sightings of Thylacine-type animals continue to be reported seen by campers and bushwalkers to the present day.". The stripes appeared to extend from the nape of the neck, running barrel-wise down its back to the rump of its long tail. Stripes noted, the report states economically. Both times it was too difficult to see it properly, because it was travelling so quickly. The search was successful in that we found fresh paw prints in mud at a remote swampland location. WebCall Us Today! 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. A Mum, Dad and Joey! You're seeing this page because your domain is setup with the default name servers: ns1.hostgator.com and ns2.hostgator.com. 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?. WebCoyote Encounters by Zip Code. My brothers wife and I were in the front. Get all the latest science stories from across the ABC. 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.". At first she thought that it was a wallaby. I really did not think about it too much until about 10 years later when I saw pictures of the strange animal I encountered that day. He has since co-authored a book on mainland thylacines with his wife: Gilroy, Rex and Gilroy, Heather. Thylacine sighting, Gippsland Victoria, 1990's. Waters believes the images show stripes, a straight tail and shiny, leathery hocks -- all features of the thylacine. It seemed to be stationary for a second or two as it was down the end of a long stretch of road so I managed a pretty good look. [January 1979 sighting by married couple at night], "1979, Tyagarah; David saw a strange thylacine-like animal and it reminded him of the Tyagarah Lion observations that people had talked about over the years.". This is Opit's summarisation of the report (in bold): "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. One report from the north-east was faithfully reported as 200m, but the measured distance was just under 400m, an impossible distance to see detail at.. All Rights Reserved. They phoned and spoke about their experience on my Wildlife Talkback programme.". 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. I think it was young about 12-13 inches from the ground to the top of its back.I didn't see any stripes and I don't think it had any but it was obviously a marsupial. In order to point the domain to your server, please login here to manage your domain's settings. When we saw the skin pegged out, my father was surprised because he had not seen a live one for perhaps 40 years and believed there were none left alive.". The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW. We sighted it again a couple of days later from a distance, and finally on the third occasion I was fortunate enough to get an excellent view of it. Based on photos, many have pointed out the similarities between the Tasmanian tiger and large dogs such as the grey wolf. Whilst travelling east along the Bruxner Highway through the lighter wooded area, coming off the range, about ten minutes west of Drake he had a close view of a strange animal that looked like a thylacine without stripes. Last week there was a stir in activity relating to Thylacines still being alive in Tasmania. We observed it for about 10 minutes from between 10 to 20 meters away. A short time later a bakery representative from the Gold Coast also saw the animal & commented to Sue about it. But if thats the case, how do you explain the more recent stories, assuming they werent fabricated? We were driving along the road when a animal stepped out in front of use further down the highway. ", "18th September 2011, 8pm, Cape Byron; observed by zoologist Mary Gardner on the way to the Cape Byron lighthouse. 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. This was apparently the meal of the animal I had just seen.