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I so badly want to believe these creatures still exist

How do you start this off by comparing the very REAL Thylacine, to a Yeti and Loch Ness Monster?

First they hunt it to extinction, then they search for it. Makes sense.

Don't tell me you're gonna clone the Tas Tiger till you do. I've been hearing this news for over ten years

I live in Tasmania. A lot of the landscape here is rugged, steep and inaccessible, with quickly changing weather patterns. I believe the Thylacine still exists. Many extinct species have been found in remote places, look at the Coelacanth, the prehistoric fish found still alive and kicking.

Taiwanese here, and i see a lot of parallels in our stories. In Taiwan, there also used to exist a predator, the clouded leopard. It was the "soul" of the forest and had significant roles in the history of the indigenous tribes. It was driven to extinction by human activities. Similar steps were taken to find any traces of their existence today, such as camara trapping. Sightings have been reported but never confirmed. Some people are adamant that they still exist somewhere in the deep mountains.

One problem with this: The thylacine didn't sound anything like that. They're not related to wolves -- they're not canids at all -- and there's no evidence that they ever made any howling sounds like that. Reports from people who actually heard thylacines in the past indicate they were usually mute but would sometimes make short barks (but nothing like dog barks) or squealing sounds.

In 1980, we were driving (slowly) up an abandoned train track, on the outskirts of Zeehan, and had to stop, as one passed in front of us. It came from the right, stopped in the middle of the road/tracks (in the full sunlight), looked at us for 10-20 seconds, and then continued walking off to the left. All 4 of us in the car, all agreed we'd seen a Tassie Tiger.

Tasmania native here, these creatures still exist. But they are very rare. I’ve seen 2 in my lifetime while out and about.

The amount of animal species that went extinct/are going extinct because of human populating, deforestation and hunting is incredible, sad and infuriating.

Tasmanian tigers didn't howl like a wolf or dog they supposedly made a "yip" "yip" sound according to first hand accounts from before extinction.

The fact that it is a marsupial is the wildest thing to me.

Tasmanian tigers, or thylacines, did not howl. They likely made a variety of sounds such as hissing, coughing, and a distinctive series of husky barking noises that may have served as a form of communication. There isn't any concrete evidence or description from historical observations that suggests they howled like wolves or dogs. Thylacines had a different jaw structure and vocal capability from those canids known for howling. Therefore it likely wasn't a Tasmanian Tiger.

Unfortunately the Tasmanian government still allows the logging of native forests reducing suitable habitat to this day. Leonardo mentioned this on his own Facebook page.

I remember an incident here in WA where a livestock truck came to grief and a cow escaped into a block of land surrounded by main roads and it took a couple of weeks to find that cow, so a small animal in thousands of square kilometres not hard to believe 🤷🏼

Remember when we followed old Adrian into the woods and tricked the geezer into think we were Tasmania Tigers howling?

We been hearing about these de-extinction projects for years now and nothing has come from it. They talked about passenger pigeons, Tasmanian tiger, and the woolly mammoth. I’ve seen them all

This is absolutely not a joke. Best friends of mine lived down the road from me in Haines City Florida. The area was close to several former theme parks where exotic animals were often brought and displayed over decades occasionally escaped. So it is not completely uncommon to see unusual animals in this part of Florida. One afternoon they were sitting in their house where they lived in the back of an orange grove, and through their glass door they saw an animal walk by in their growth that they could not identify. They described it as moving something like a cat, having a head like a dog, but stripes like a tiger, and they could not imagine what it was. They began searching and searching to find out what the strange creature could be and one afternoon told me joyfully that they had found out what it was, it was a thylacine! Please show me a picture and I cannot even believe it was real. I had never heard the word or any reference to a Tasmanian tiger. But I will tell you to this very day, I absolutely believe there was one in Haines City Florida in 1994. I don't know how long they live, or if it was alone, I believe my friends.

Deer actually make some crazy loud weird sounds just not often

The Tigers don't howl - wrong. Also - "there are no wild dogs in Tasmania" - completely untrue. There's a pack of wild dogs up in the western lakes - I've heard them howling on more than one occasion, when I was doing week-long hikes into that remote backcountry. I'd love it to be true - but that first guy lends zero credibility to the idea.

Ah, yes, the annual Tasmanian Tiger story …

THIS MAN OUT HERE HOWLING AND THE INTERVIEWER SAID DO IT AGAIN 😂

Imagine being out there and hear something saying something like "They're GRRREAT!"

In 1957, they stated that it was roaming around the bushes. In 1986, it was put on the endangered species list. The man was telling the truth. He must have seen something. What a fascinating species.

Nothing can erase the shame of our ignorance and destruction of environment and species. We must learn from our mistakes and move forward with care.

The Loch Ness monster and yeti have never been proven to have ever existed. We know Tazzy tigers were real. This isn't a hunt for Bigfoot.

It’s horrible that people murdered all the Tasmanian tigers and that it was also paid for by the government.

the tiger was not a sheep killer! the jaws werent big enough to crush a sheep skull. maybe a lamb but not a full grown sheep. the tiger was very misunderstood. they were killed for no reason. i believe they are still around.

The Tasmanian tiger still exist in my opinion. Very few numbers but I believe there is still at least one or 2 populations of them that exist on the wild.

The silhouette of that animal running across the street … no dog no wolf runs like that. I don’t know that it is but i never saw an animal running like that.

Honestly Tassie is so wild and remote I reckon there’s gotta be a few still left out there. Here’s hoping we get to see them again one day

What’s sad to me is they roamed for thousands of years and then people as horrible humans came in and annihilated them really sad just another animal taken out by people

Thylacine were not canids and did not howl. And if they are still around, they are most likely in New Guinea.

I never thought the extinction of animals over time was anything more than the cycle of life. Then when I was in my 20s I went to a history museum and they had a display of actual birds that went extinct and the place they were last seen. It was so many different species and they were so different looking and to think they will never be here again was sad ! One of them the last sighting was in my town and I remember seeing that species as a kid. Hopefully they find the thylacine.

If it's really been "spotted" or seen, then that's good news. Just leave them be. Let them roam freely and stop "stalking" them❤❤❤

Tasmanian Tiger is the name of an ED pill I bought at the local bodega

I remember feeling sad about the extinction when I first read about the Tasmanian tiger many years ago, I hope they can find proof they're still out there

If you ever come across an Aussie hunter who likes to drink. Sit down with one. They can tell you some of the funniest & crazy stories. Had an ol boy here in Tx. Couldnt get enough. He was so funny & cool.

2 other enthusiasts made the howls while searching themselves & catfished him.. Now he’s on a wild Goose chase. He catfished himself, his wife’s going to be livid.

I liked that one film where Willem Dafoe is hired to find one.

"preyed on sheep"? expected better of you, 60 minutes. that was largely a misconception they used to hunt it to extinction. we now know that though their jaws look scary, they weren't actually very strong.

Just think of all the other animals that humans are currently driving into extinction

I firmly believe that the Tasmanian Tiger still exists. Over the years they have learned to avoid humans.

Should correct you that it was THOUGHT that they preyed on sheep but is proven they didn’t.

Man, your great-grandparents killed this thing off, it’s too late lmaoooo

As soon as I heard his howling I thought crazy

A few Tassie boys that go looking for the Tasmanian Tiger stumbled onto tiger footprints a couple of weeks ago. Here’s hoping they are still here

Look out for the Drop Bears! The TAS Tiger didn’t howl. Until very recently there were many older Tasmanians who had seen and heard the tiger. No one mentioned howls or calling across valleys.

It’s amazing how long they survived.

Something i always struggle to understand is how we seem incapable of ridding invasive species, but species we want, we can't keep. - Australia can't get rid of African cane toads - Florida can't get rid of Indian burmese pythons - Spain can't get rid of carribbean sea urchins But we struggle to keep native animals alove

Intro: Hardly an appropriate comparison between a recently extinct real animal, the thylacine, with two bogus mythical creatures.

What’s happened to 60 minutes? Incredibly erroneous to draw a comparison between mythical creatures and the Tassie Tiger. And the mannerisms of the presenter are forced and contorted in a most unnatural way. There were game cams some years back that released incredible pictures of what definitely looked like a Thylacine.

This is not an Australian 60 Minutes.

thylacine: I'm back! coelacanth:

They do not call them shrimp they call them prawn.

Being from the states I too have spent my whole life praying! wondering! hoping! if there’s still one group of them hiding away out in the bush where they can’t be seen and pray before I die they’ll be found again.!!!

I really hope they are still out there, somewhere.

2:10 when people start imitating the howl, then you know it’s over

If the Tasmanian Tiger has managed to avoid extinction, how has it survived with others as the gene pool must be extremely small?

I hope they find some of the Tasmanian Tigers still alive, but people claim to see bigfoot too.

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 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.

When you find the Loch Ness monster and the Abominable Snowman, you'll probably find them playing cards with the Tasmanian Tiger.

A teardrop of an island- bigger than Switzerland? 🤔 Remember on maps you're comparing it with the Australian mainland-not Bermuda!

Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone

scientist's assessment is on point

Great episode. Would Love to think that it is still in the wild!

I heard him say that they "preyed on farmers' sheep," which is what was claimed at the time but I found this on Science daily: "Australia's iconic thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was hunted to death in the early Twentieth century for allegedly killing sheep; however, a new study has found that the tiger had such weak jaws that its prey was probably no larger than a possum."

Life, uh, finds a way

Robert Deniro's range is incredible

Idk if I'm on board with 'creating' them, but after watching that sad footage of the last known one in a zoo, it would be cool to know they still exist.

I do hope Mr. Richardson finds that the Tasmanian Tiger has survived but having a feeling in your heart, no matter how fervent it may be, is evidence of nothing.

I truly do hope they find some who have still survived.

Gotta love Australians❤

So many people out there looking for them and nobody can produce a decent image of one. That is very frustrating and certainly points to them not being out there, in my humble opinion.

This is not journalism. Thanks for the content. Keep up the good work. בס'ד

Little do they know, I'm a Tasmanian tiger.

Thylacene never howled the way canids do!

Wanna know the true story about how the last tiger "Benjamin" died? Well, My great great grandfather was a Zookeeper at Beaumaris zoo. The family story passed down from him goes like this- A young lad with down syndrome named Jebediah Brown, was employed at the zoo to sweep sawdust and clean the cages, my GGGrandpa caught young Jeb fooling around with the animals on numerous occasions, but because of his affliction, they let him do it ( because the local lasses didn't want a bar of poor Jebediah due to him having too many chromosomes and the zookeepers felt bad for him ) so they turned a blind eye to him fiddling the critters. So, one windy day in the spring of 1936, Jebediah- with a skin full of liquor, got into the cage with Benjamin for a little fun. Well, the liquor took control of the feeble minded boy and he went too far, he put his member inside the beast and stirred it around and around some more, until the critters insides became all mixed up like a stew....and just like that, the last tiger kicked the bucket. When the zookeepers had seen the aftermath of Jebediahs sin, they bundled him up in a potato sack and threw him down a mineshaft on the outskirts of Hobart Town.......and apparently, even to this day, on a windy September morn, you can still hear the screams of Jebediah Brown coming from that old mineshaft.

NEVER ASK A SERIOUS QUESTION IN AN AUSTRALIAN PUB ...😊😊

The first time I heard about Tasmanian Tiger was from watching Wild Kratts. 😂😂😂😂😂

Footage of two men walking, clear as day Footage of taz tiger, blurry as hell

Why would it be impossible to recreate a Thylacine when scientists are doing it with mammoths? I'd love to know they were back!

Hey everyone check out "The Hunter" with William Dafoe. It's a fictional story about trying to find the last Tasmanian Tiger.

Adrian Richardson's dedication and passion are great. Dude is doing the Lord's work trying to bring attention to a local legend of an animal.

My farther in law was at a pub north of Hobart around 2006. Two local hunters had shot one mistaking it for a wild dog and brought it back to the bar. It was placed in a deep freezer for about 6weeks until the university paid the publican and hunters to keep it quiet and took the dead tiger away.

There are Mountain Lions in North Carolina, but they say there are not. I saw one, and others i have talked to have as well

"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should".Dr Malcolm Jurassic Park

I remember a kid in high school, from Cape Tribulation, who used to tell us how he had seen the mainland tiger. There is an university researcher, who is also looking for the mainland tiger. Anybody know the guy who used to be at Cape Tribulation?

Yowies are out there too and the academia keeps ignoring the sightings.

Someday there'll be one or two humans left and will probably be out in a room (cage) for beings from other worlds to visit and marvel at the last human, maybe even feed him/her.

Very interesting. Very sad when species go extinct.

I was working on a vessel in Singapore back in early 2000s and one of these was onboard - effectively the ships rat catcher. I remember thinking thats a really wierd dog - vertical stripes on its sides and rear and really long jaw, spitting image. Wish I'd got a photo of it, but certain they or at least their offspring/descendants are still around if thats possible...

"What is the middle ground? You could be right. You could be lying." Um... Pretty obvious that the other option there is: "You could be wrong." What a weird statement...

10:04 He calls it a mammal, but isnt it a marsupial?

Cool and all, but wouldn't it be more productive trying to save the environment for the animals we have left?

I watched a video not long ago about a potential population that might still exist in New Guinea. The range of the Thylacine extended not only into mainland Australia and when sea levels were lower many of the pacific islands were close enough that animals could more freely migrate.

It's more likely that the tiger could be hanging out in the depths of New Guinea than in the relatively more inhabited Tasmania

If they were still alive wouldnt someone have samples of their poop or paw prints by now?

Even if you magically bring it back, that doesn’t mean the world will keep it around.