"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. It was unconcerned by his approaching car and he was able to get a close look at it. Source: Cronshaw, Damon. (MORE: Two-thirds of birds in North America at risk of extinction due to climate change: Report) It moved only once, opening its jaw and showing its teeth.. ProfessorPask says the technology istyet to be used successfully,but that could change. ", 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. They see the back end of an animal, they see the colour and their mind fills in the rest. Mooneys conclusion will come as a blow to thylacine enthusiasts who were convinced they finally had the evidence they needed. "In 1978, he was 7 or 8 at at the time and lived on a farm near Nundle NSW. They decided that it could only be a Tasmanian tiger and phoned the national parks service to report the sighting and where most annoyed when they were not believed and told that they could not possibly have seen such an animal because it is extinct. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. I could tell by its fur. "We're partnering with the huge team from the US who have been proposing to bring back the woolly mammoth," he told ABC News Mornings. 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. The time was 11.25pm, when, just past the houses and oval, Mike clearly saw a Thylacine [there was, he said, no mistaking the body stripes and other features] running onto the road from left to right ahead of his car, illuminated by his headlights. I was on my way to work at the time, heading for Glenbrook Railway Station and had no time to pursue it, when it ran off holding its prey in its mouth. 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It had sandy coloured fur, a stubby muzzle and a long tail. The swamp is surrounded by dense scrub at the foot of a deep gully encased by steep cliffs. I recognised them to be those of an undoubted Thylacine. As my lights were on the animal it bounced off into the bush unlike any dog I've ever seen. "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. He was certain that it was not a cat, fox or dog. Want CNET to notify you of price drops and the latest stories? Click the icons to get a summary of the sighting and Each time it was in the evening, after dark, between 6pm and 8:30pm if I remember correctly. He believes most big-cat sightings in countries such as the UK are almost always domestic cats that have been seen at a distance that is very difficult to judge. 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. It then ran across the road as I pulled up. ", "Pete, of Ocean Shores, was recently talking to his neighbour, Steve, who also has a farm at Wooyung directly adjacent the caravan park. In other words, the thylacine either died out only two decades ago or astonishingly still persists. Listen to some of the brightest names in science and technology talk about the ideas and breakthroughs shaping our world. One particualr day they came upon a trap with a stange looking animal in it. ", "8th October, 2005, 12pm, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; Russel saw what looked like the same animal that he saw in September and believe it may have been sitting as he only saw its head and shoulders in the grass but was struck by it having rounded ears. Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops. He realised that only one species could answer the dog-like physical appearance of this strange animal, and that was a Tasmanian Tiger. ", "September, 2005, 7am, Billinudgel Nature Reserve; on the trail that runs parallel to the beach several hundred metres north of the central trail entrance into the reserve. 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. The thylacine became extinct in the 1960s or did it? 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. The thylacine is believed to have been extinct since 1936, when the last living thylacine, Benjamin, died in Hobart zoo. There is no doubt in my mind that the animal was a living thylacine. poems: R package for simulating species' range dynamics using Why does he believe these are Tasmanian pademelons? While Mr Waters's footage has been deemed fiction rather than fact, partners in a new science venture say a livingbaby thylacine might be as little as 10years away. The animals were short-lived with a lifespan typically less than a decade meaning there would need to be many individuals roaming the bush for the species to have survived this long. Advocate (Coffs Harbour, NSW), 9 March. 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. Could the thylacine be brought back from extinction. When Naarding reached for his camera bag after several minutes, the movement spooked the creature, and it slunk away into the undergrowth. 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 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. Its fur was a tan colour, and the body stripes were blacky-brown. He signed off: Congratulations everyone. Instead of searching for something that's not there, Professor Archer, who led a project that successfully grew early-stage cloned embryos that contained extinct gastric brooding frog DNA, said our best bet was to invest in developing gene technology, such as CRISPR, to revive the species. Reports from other states and countries can be accessedhere. It walked, trotted and loped. Processing every individual sensory detail is impossible, she says, so our brain actively reconstructs our visual world based on the complex but ambiguous input received by our eyes. 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. The head looked Alsatian-like but had shorter, thicker ears than a greyhound. This is not the first purported Tasmanian tiger footage Mr Waters and TAGOA have released. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Waters said this would put the thylacine in a much stronger position than its been in for the last 30-something years referring to the 1990s for some reason. At that time sheep were being killed and torn up in Hartley Valley by a Tasmanian Tiger-like beast, and that is what I believed ran in front of my car. ", "2004, Clothiers Creek Road, Cabarita; Joslyn, of Kingscliff, saw a thylacine on Clothiers Creek Road at 9.30 am as she was coming into Cabarita. Mongabay is a U.S.-based non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform. After the second time I saw it, it was gone nowhere to be seen. Both are 100% certain that the animal they saw was a thylacine. The encounter lasted in full no more than 15 seconds. I looked it up on the internet and it did look like the pictures of thylacines but with no stripes. To gain a new depth of insight into the extinction of the Thylacine, we assembled an exhaustive database of 1,237 observational records The back legs were also shorter than the front ones. Barry Brook, a conservation biologist at the University of Tasmania, pre-published a paper on the marsupial, in which he "We now have the nuclear genome sequence and the mitochondrial genome sequence of the thylacine. * Its head was weird shaped with a long jaw/snout. Supplied:Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. ", "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. "The problem is people say there's so much dense bush in Tasmania, and that's true," Professor Archer said. It gave a strange coughing bark-like call and bounded away. Quite suddenly the animal reared on it's hind legs, nose to the air, turned to the opposite direction than that it had been standing and raced into the vegetation at speed. He said other members of his family has seen the same animal on separate occasions, as had neighbours. "On the night of 6th October 1982, at 8.26pm, Mr John Galluzzi was driving toward Katoomba on the Great Western Highway, when, at the bottom of Boddington Hill, Wentworth Falls, This creature appeared, cantering across the road from right to left. But before we start seeing them in fenced-off areas of the wilderness, let's take a look back atwhat led to the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger. Mr Waters says these signs include the way the tail sits, the fact the feet are broad and there are four toe pads with claws. } They said that about five weeks before, on 27th November 1979, while photographing birds at Mount Mondilla, they found paw prints in mud that appeared to match those of the Thylacine. One witness, ranger Peter Simon. Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops. Brook agrees. The front legs were longer than the back, but shorter than those of a greyhound. It was verging on dusk and the train was of course travelling quickly, but the unusual head and the tail shape and striped appearance were unmistakable. "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. Naardings thylacine, it seemed, had vanished into the night. Wildlife expert pours cold water on claims Tasmanian tiger family These were of a chocolaty-brown colourand not very obvious. ", Source: Gilroy, Rex. Colossal CEO Ben Lamm told The Debrief that the technologies applied toward bringing back a species like the Thylacine are similar to what Colossal has already been developing in its efforts to revive the wooly mammoth.However, even a species declared extinct as recently as the Tasmanian tiger presents unique challenges. Then I noticed that the fore and hind legs were of the same size and that it did not have the usual colours of a swamp wallaby such as the ginger head fur, pale face stripe, black forepaws or black tail.