Is The Thylacine Still Alive? 

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The Thylacine always struck me particularly hard as an extinct species. Something about it being recent enough that we have some old video footage available is so haunting. Definitely up there with the recording of the Kauai O'o.

For a bit of perspective on how shockingly recent this extinction event was, the last Tasmanian tiger died in captivity when Queen Elizabeth was about 10 years old

6:31 It always amazes me whenever I see pictures like this where someone is so proud of a kill they just made. Especially whenever it's a very special animal and the last of it's kind. I guess they didnt know any better but it's crazy to see someone so satisfied with wiping an entire species out of existence. Its truly heartbreaking.

Personally, I think we should definitely bring back recently extinct animals - animals whose demise, like the thylacine, dodo, and quagga, can conclusively be traced back to humans. I think these would raise the least amount of resistance and have the fewest problems in regard to feasibility and ecological upheaval. Certainly, a lot less than trying to bring back a mammoth, an animal that is not only huge, but whose habitat no longer exists or is in decline.

Thylacines used to be my favorite animal, I used to be so disappointed by the fact that literally the coolest animal that has ever existed were all killed off by humans, but now I’ve learned to appreciate the awesome modern day animals that we have now, like jaguars, and cassowaries, and even Tasmanian devils and quolls

Everybody: So, are you extinct or still alive? Thylacine: Yes

I’m fascinated by the thylacine. I first learned about them at a museum in Australia and I’ve been hoping some would turn up for decades now. Sadly, I don’t think we’ll ever see them again, although I’d really like to be proven wrong about that.

I am visiting Tasmanian next year, so I will keep a look out for this species. If I did find one then I can assure you, I would never tell a soul. Best to leave them in peace in the Tassie wilderness.

When that was a young guy in the mid 90s I remember discovering this animal and a animal encyclopedia my parents gave me. I was so fascinated by it because it was a creature that felt so close to dinosaurs. Wild and exotic and strange. a dog-like cat marsupial, that’s pretty freakin cool

Posted a Harpy Eagle video last week, my favorite living animal, and now a Thylacine video?, my favorite animal of all time? Wow.

Sad that this is the first I've heard of the Tasmanian Emu... also killed off... I didn't know anything about thylacine behavior before this vid!

What are the odds? My husband and I were talking about this animal yesterday! I was telling him how my grandfather had books from the 30s and on one page there was a picture of this animal (I can't spell it 😅) and it captivated me so much as a kid for looking so unique!

I hope they do still survive in the wild, keeping well away from humans. They were exquisite…thank you.🖤🇨🇦

Australia and Tasmania are stretch for the thylacine to be alive in those areas of the world. Papua New Guinea is only 10% discovered land mass and the majority of it is mountains and rainforest and this was once connected to Australia and Tasmania during the last ice age. Why am I talking about this instead of Australia or Tasmania, because thylacine fossils were discovered on Papua New Guinea and there have been sightings by the locals who say that a wolf with stripes lives on the island alongside them and out of all the canines and the images of the singing dogs, they looked at all the pictures they pointed out only to one and that's the thylacine as it is very close to the one that they saw, as they call it a wolf with stripes. So if any chance of the thylacine to come back it would have to be Papua New Guinea since there's new species constantly being discovered there and this island has a lot of potential of rediscovering a potentially extinct species like the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger. However since most of this land mass can't be accessed by foot and it's going to be very hard to prove it.

A great book, devoted to the thylacine, called "The last Tasmanian tiger." Written by Robert Paddle, may still be available. It is by a very creditable source. (Was my science teacher, 40 years ago.)

The wonderful thing about tiggers Is tiggers are wonderful things! Their tops are made out of rubber Their bottoms are made out of springs! They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!

The story about thylacines makes me very sad. It makes me angry to see people posing with their dead corpse while their numbers dwindled down. I do hope one day we will see them again, but then again I fear that someone will go out their way to hunt them down again.

Thylacine is one of my favorite animals ever

My grandfather was a teenager when they went extinct. He always referred to them as "Australian Tiger Dogs".

I remember my Nanna telling me when I was a kid that she saw a live one in the zoo when she was a child.

Idk if it mentions it yet but I wish more people realized they weren't endemic to Australia/Tasmania but were found in New guinea among other places

You really went out your way to draw whatever is going on down there in detail

I will never not be furious about the death of Benjamin the Tasmanian Tiger. What kind of person would be so negligent as to let the last known living specimen freeze? It’s horrific

I remember watching an animal planet documentary on the thylacine, and how people in Australia claim they still see one from time to time. It totally had me obsessed with them. The bigfoot of the marsupials!

For anyone interested, a wildlife biologist named Forrest Gallante believes they may still exist and has been looking for them. He has a show called Extinct or Alive and hosts a podcast called The Wild Times.

I, for one. Still hold out hope. I also think about the _Ty the Tasmanian Tiger_ video games everytime thylacines are brought up.

My first ever PowerPoint presentation in middle school was about the Thylacine. I was obsessed with them. Wow that was like 20 years ago.

Thanks for the presentation and exquisite drawings. I love your enthusiasm and dedication and can't think of a better advocate for all but especially endangered species.

You have no idea how much I wanted a new science video to watch

The video showing it roaming around has been always heartbreaking for me

My deceased step-uncle saw one once on the west coast of Tasmania around the 1970s or 80s, where the other claimed sightings have occurred too. He was driving one the dark with a mate in the passenger seat, I can't remember if he said it was early morning or night - and a Thylacine crossed the road in front of them. He just turned to his friend and said "nobody would believe us." The other known sighting in the area was in the papers around the same time period, when a mad was travelling the west coast delivering newspapers - another old woman had an interview here once too and lived right in the whoop whoops and could hear their yips sometimes, but wouldn't reveal her area to protect them. so, who knows?

I would be so thrilled if they were still alive. They're such interesting and unique creatures. On another note I love your hair!

I heard they may exist on some of Tasmania's nearest islands. Maybe? Hugs and loved the show 🌸

"It's probably been stuffed for about a hundred years now." -- Damn, how much did it eat to be stuffed that long?

For the past few days ive been on a thylacine binge researching whatever I can on this. So sad they were hunted into extinction. I really really hope there are small pockets of them around or at the very least be able to clone them without any health issues

3:25 "They reportedly loved eating chickens" This photo was staged, with a dead, stuffed thylacine being posed with a dead chicken. It was widely publicized and contributed to their extinction.

Love these videos, keep up the great work

Unlike dogs or dingoes, all five digits on the front paws of a thylacine touch the ground. So, if you’re on a lonely beach or track and you see the tracks of a five-toed dog, take a photo!

I'm privileged to have had both Echidnas and Platypus wander onto my property, but I've only seen a Tassie Devil in a wildlife park. The Tasmanian Tiger is extinct IMO. The Thylacine at the end of this video has been seen by just about every primary school student in southern Tasmania. $0.02

Wish science will succeed to bring Thylacine back.

Everyone -Thylacines are extinct Forrest Galente-NO

And almost exactly a month later, a company is now actively working to clone them back into existence.

Read an article in the newspaper a few days ago that the same company that is trying to clone the Woolly Mammoth is also now trying to clone the Tasmanian Tiger as well. And they think they'll be able to clone a Thylacine much sooner too!

Can you do oar fish? I just discovered it and it’s crazy!

The channel should do a video about the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.

That mouth opens way more than I expected or was prepared for

I love that you included an art wip in the background!

Hoping that they are around, I learned quite a bit from this!

Ah yes, the thylacine. What happens when you slam a quoll, a fossa, and a jackal into a blender.

New to the channel and love it! My favorite animal when I was a kid, was the Ocapi. If you haven’t already, it’d be great to see a vid on these animals! Ty!

The first time i know about these guys was from crash bandicoot series

Awesome this animal has always been interesting to me love hearing about it!

The reports of recent Thylacine sightings are by the likes of those who see Bigfoot, The Lochness Monster, and The Mexican Trotting Duck.

She found it! And again, thanks for making these videos! Learning about animals with you guys (weather they be from the past or present) brings me so much joy! I don’t know if these guys are still out there but I hope so! Extinction is such a tragedy

Animalogic is fantastic! Please keep it up. I suggest a story on rotifers!

Yay! Great to see an episode on one of my favorite species!

Awesome video 😍😍😍😍

Welcome back Danielle!! We miss you!!!

Such magnificent and beautiful animals. I hope they're able to be resurrected.

Given that Thylacines were presumably social animals that had to learn from their parents, and that they have no close living relatives to gestate the clone in, I dont see how bringing them back via cloning would be at all possible

These animals were amazing. Absolutely magnificent. I hope they're still around somewhere, somehow. It's really a shame what we humans have done to so many unique irreplaceable creatures on this Planet. It's heartbreakingly frustrating, how much damage we've done. Particularly Europeans during the Colonial period.

You really got as much usage of that Thylacine figurine as possible! Love it :D

Missed you, the Artwork is still great. I like watching the drawings develop over the course of the video. 😆😆👍🏻🌹🇦🇺

If possible(because I’m not sure how much info there is on them), I would really like a megamouth shark video

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At 4:03 is my Great, Great, Grandfather (On the right with the strung up Tassie Tiger). I have the original signed copy in storage. Sad to see the Tigers gone. I hope they make a return.

that coyote looking thing is still out there..my Aussie uncle said that even wen they were abundant they were rarely seen and they were always secretive

Man, the Tasmanian Tiger looks so amazing. It’s a shame that it’s extinct, unless there is a likely chance they could somehow still be alive, living in hiding. Heck, if the Tasmanian Tiger can be brought from extinction, that would be awesome sauce.

I had no idea that the last one died from essentially being neglected in a zoo. That's really sad. The thylacine's story always hit hard for me. There's footage of them but they are just gone due to humans.

I so badly hope that they survived.

Another amazing video!

Congratulations on the tragic tale and video on the Legendary and mysterious Thylacine aka the Tasmanian Tiger/Wolf my friend! Perhaps one day it will reveal itself but not in Australia or Tasmania but the world will reveal it right before in our eyes.

I would love to hear the story of the short faced bear Its one of my favourite extinct animals

Love your videos! Thanks

I hope they are still with us, such a beautiful animal.

It’s really sad seeing and understanding how great of an affect colonialism had on our planet. It was not only the Indigenous peoples who were severely affected but our ecosystem as well. Love the context one of my favorite RU-vid Chanel ❤️

Yay Danielle looks so amazing! She’s almost the same as when she first started out! I was always worried about her health but she is clearly taking care of herself again! Can’t believe how far this channel has come. I remember when I first found this channel and fell in love with Danielle and her art. Then the dark periods where they didn’t post for a year then Danielle leaving for a while. So happy that they’ve come back stronger than ever WITH DANIELL DUBOIS! Woo!

Great video! I hope there still out there.

BEST VIDEO EVER!!!!🐯🥳🐯🎆🐯 Thank you for finally making a video on my favorite animal that I honestly think it could still be alive! I also wanna say thank you for putting my old comments at the end of the video! You guys are awesome! Keep up the good work and I’ll let you know what animal I want you to talk about next!

Could it be cloned, I wonder if theres enough genetic material available ? There seems to be a lot of specimens

I'd love to see Thylacine in my life time in the zoo or in the wild enjoying life.

But who shall shed a tear for the noble Tasmanian emu?

Thank you for your efforts 🙏

WOW it's so cute though 🥰

As tragic as the Thylacine extinction was on Tasmania, it's nothing compared to how tragic the extinction of the Aboriginal Tasmanians was. Many people don't even know there were native Tasmanians. And they only lasted about 20 years after first European contact.

these bois look like they would take care of the feral cat problem in no time

Cloning maybe strange and creepy but it could be incredibly useful for both animals and humans.

My heart breaks for the loss of this magnificent animals and all the others who have come and gone. 🤍

The scientists who are trying to clone Mammoths should be stopped asap. Its a horrible thing to do to a social creature and such a smart animal. Sometimes we just have to tell scientists no, its not okay to do that. Mammoths died out for a reason, and trying to bring it back is just awful. If they continue to try to do it in another country, they may need to just be dealt with. Bringing back species like that is not a great thing when you have to spend so much money to do so when that could be used on species that are alive today that need it way more.

Dingos and Aboriginal tribes drove them to extinction on the mainland, same story on Tasmania except for Dingos, and then the Europeans showed up in the last 250 years and it's all their fault? Why are Natives so infallible?

the first time I heard about this creature was on Kratt's Creatures back in the 90s.

Awesome video! Ambulocetus, please!

Interesting that you don't blame aborigines for introducing dingos to the Australian mainland from runaways of their domestic dogs. Also aborigines with prey hunting, directly competed with thylacines. Their yearly fires destroyed habitat. They also outright hunted thylacines too. Over the millennia the thylacines were slowly driven to extinction on the mainland.

Back in 2001 my wife and I took the kids on a trip to Tasmania. While on the road between Strahan and Queenstown on the west coast, both my wife and I clearly saw a large dog like animal come out of the bush, cross the road and, with one leap, climb up the embankment (at least 2 - 2.5 metres high) on the other side. Unfortunately, it was too far away & too quick to get a detailed look but, the animal in question was too big to be a feral cat or dog. Until my dying day, I'm convinced that what we saw was a Thylacine. True story.

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