Tasmanian Tiger in Colour 

Imagine it. Being the last of your kind, and never even knowing it. Never being aware that there are no more of you out there.

The fact that the zoo who housed the very last one of these let it die out of negligence is just beyond me. Unbelievable.

I'm so happy that this video exists, but also so sad that we only have them on video now.

No matter how many times I watch this footage, it never gets easier to comprehend/accept how we squeezed amazing creatures like this out of existence.

I had the incredible experience of meeting and talking with David Fleay at his wildlife park. It was 1975, I was in my 20's, visiting Queensland, Australia. He was an amazing man and his park is his lasting tribute to his love of Australian wildlife. He did have one distinction apart from all others; he was bitten by THIS Thylacine, Benjamin, while photographing him in Hobart in 1933. He asked me why I came to Australia. I said that I was fascinated with Australia's wildlife from adolescence. I had excitedly read a National Geographic Magazine article on Australia, and the platypus that were brought from Australia to our National Zoo in Washington DC. He told me that he was responsible for bringing those platypus to America. David was as surprised as I was. We both then realized that he was a huge part of the reason that I flew across the world, and by strange coincidence chanced to meet him.

Not only does this footage break my heart because Benjamin was the last of his kind but he just looks so bored and restless pacing about in that bare concrete floor enclosure.. he would've been happier out in the wild were he belonged

His name was Benjamin. You can see how stressed he is. His enclosure is way to small and there is no place to hide.

They really shouldn’t have gone extinct, it’s such a beautiful creature

The Tasmanian Tiger looks like a medieval artist's attempt at painting a modern tiger. Very interesting creatures. I wish they were still around!

I have been obsessed with the Thylacine for years and to see the colorized footage of the last known living animal is absolutely incredible! I hope that all of the sighting reports are true and this beautiful creature is still out there.

Its kinda depressing, seeing a creature in colour thats extinct

One of the many bizzare, and unique looking animals we used to have on this earth .

It’s so crazy to me how dog-like it is. Yet it’s a marsupial? Truly unique.

It’s cool how much it’s body and legs kinda resemble a dog but then it just opens it’s mouth and turns into a croc

This was 90 years ago. That's not very long ago in the grand scheme of things. These animals died out when my grandparents where young. To me that's a very sobering thought.

It's kinda hard to believe it existed. I really wish this animal was still alive. It's so beautiful.

disturbing that this died so long ago but it’s like it’s here

For nearly 2 million years these beautiful creatures lived, hunted and raised young. They evolved to survive and thrive in their environment, where they were the apex predators. They lived in perfect harmony with their ecosystem. And in less than 100 years, humans wiped out every single one. Tragic, but it's happened to thousands of species, and continues to happen, so, sadly not unique.

Imagine being him no one to reproduce with, no one to socialize with living like you have no purposes anymore.

Imagine dying alone during a cold night and not even knowing you were the last of your kind... Damn

Amaaaaaaazing! Have seen the black and white footage. This really shows how impressive it must be. I really hope there is a lost population somewhere in the wilds of Tasmania. Beautiful place.

I still dream of science cloning this extinct specimen and bringing it back to life

I read multiple articles that stated that they believe that there may still be some of these animals left in the wild, but that they are just deep in the wild so we don't know. I wish it were true but I feel like if it were, someone would have seen one at some point.

and she died because the people who were supposed to be watching her left her outside on a cold night.

What's sad is this Thylacine that was named Benjamin died due to extreme weather anomaly for that time of year where it became extremely hot in the day and freezing temperatures at night, it died because someone left the door to it's sleeping quarters or enclosure shut so it froze to death.

This footage is so beautiful and so tragic. It superimposes humanity's ingenuity to restore and preserve beauty through information against the our tendency to destroy nature's physical beauty. It's amazing how this footage was able to preserve a moment from by gone time, and that someone was able to augment the moment to add details the original medium was incapable of preserving. But at the same time, all we are left with is an echo, a fragment of what once was and is no more... thanks to us...

Serious prehistoric vibes especially that wide jaw and rear end shape.

The experience of seeing an extinct animal alive, moving, breathing. It's magical. Whether they truly are still out there, or they're cloned back from extinction I hope to see one in person in my life. Doggy.

They are very interesting looking. Their face looks so different than anything I've seen before, the way he yawned and his mouth opened so wide was so shocking.

how incredible and absolutely heartbreaking. their face shape is so unique!

He looks so friendly and chill. I've loved thylacines ever since I discovered them way back in, like, seventh grade. I'm not big into conspiracy theories, but with sightings reported here and there, I really hope these guys still exist somewhere in the wild and we're just unaware of them.

This is interesting. This old footage was used so much back in the 1970s as a warning about what we could lose. People don't realise but back then tigers, rhinos and even African elephants were on the critically endangered list. They could have gone the same way.

What an incredible looking animal I really hope there are still Tasmanian Tigers hidden somewhere in the Tasmanian wilderness.

such a fascinating animal. it looks so prehistoric yet lived till 1930. and would still be here if humans were not so cruel. bring them back.

There's a special eerieness in this clip knowing that this is real footage of an animal that no longer exists. This one was likely one of the very last members of its species on earth at the time of the recording aswell.......

I read somewhere that the last one died due to the lack of responsiblity of a keeper keeping it outside in the cold weather and forgot to bring it inside for the night... imagine the last one dies due to the lack if someone not doing their damn job.

better quality than most bank security cameras

it is truly a shame a beautiful animal like this is gone because of us

The worst kind of monster is one who doesn’t know that they are. Which for humans, is saying something.

This video makesme sad.. I know the species, saw photos. But a colored video of this beautiful and unique animal hits hard..😔

And to think that if the Tasmanian tiger had been discovered just a few decades later people would have tried to protect it. A shame it was found by man in an age when conservation wasn't a thing and the plundering of wildlife on foreign lands was still celebrated...

That enclosure is sad. Not even places for it to hide etc.

And then you remember that Australia tried wiping out the Emus... but failed, fortunately.

Kind of haunting, seeing this animal that is now gone

I dont know why, but out of all the animals that have gone extinct, this one in particular hits different. When i first saw it i thought it was such a beautiful creature. When i learned this was the last of its kind, i felt disappointment.

This video shatters my heart into a million pieces

What a gorgeous animal. The appearance of this animal makes it - at least according to me, very hard to try to grasp that we have video-tapes of such an animal. What I mean is that it looks so pre-historic that we have video-tapes of this is just mind-boggling.

The thylacine was such a beautiful animal. It’s a shame I’ll never be able to see one in person

Their phenotypic resemblance is considered the most striking example of convergent evolution in mammals. Bizarre they were Marsupials. Nature uses tools it has.

To those people who are saying stuff like ' its not a tiger its a dog ' or ' why is it called a tiger thats a dog ', please read this... It's not a tiger or a dog. It's a marsupial in the Dasyuromorphia order, making it related to Tasmanian Devils, Numbats and Quolls. It is nicknamed the Tasmanian tiger because of the distinctive stripes on it's rear end. However, the actual name of this creature is the Thylacine, a much less mis-leading name. Things like this is why we shouldn't use common names, it's much better to use the scientific names. To put things into perspective, there is like 4 species of fish all named ' sheephead fish '. Just call animals by their scientific name, it's much less confusing!

The loneliest animal in the world.

absolute unique animal. looks like nothing else.

This Tasmanian tiger was neglected when people found out it was the last one on earth they brought it to this place to protect it instead of protecting it they neglected it not even a few days and it passed away and it was the last one on earth

Thank you so much NSFA! This is absolutely fantastic to watch. Wonderful job!

This one died when the keeper left the Tazzy Devil out at night, it was winter, and in a bare concrete cage the animal died from exposure to the cold. The keeper "forgot" to put the animal in his night pen.

Thylacines look prehistoric, like creatures humans were never supposed to see and kill

A very impressive animal. I hope they still exist in remote areas of Tasmania, NE Australia, and/or New Guinea.

You can really see how narrow the nose bridge is now. Lovely. Sad. But lovely.

No hiding spot, shade.. just a concrete floor. How stupid the zoo keepers by not providing a natural environment and killed it.

Its mannerisms are very cat-like. When he closes its eyes and lift its head up, it looks very close to when cats are sniffing in the air

This footage in color was truly stunning. It was so beautiful. This makes me wanna grieve more of such a wonderful creature going extinct.

Soon as I first saw this when it came up, I nearly cried cuz I never seen an actual prehistoric/extinct animal before in color

They look so strange. It's so hard to believe it was real, yet here is actual footage!

what an interesting creature. it looks like a hybrid of several carnivores. (Big)Cats, Dog, Foxes... The length and form of his mouth is astonishing!

It’s amazing how it went from a remnant of the past to feeling like a real animal I can touch

These beautiful creatures didn't deserve to die. I do beleive that there are still more out there, who should jot be discovered for their own safety.

Its interesting because it genuinely looks unlike anything we have on earth at this time

They are so beautiful, it breaks my heart seeing this lovely creature in such an awful little enclosure, so lonely and bored and unhappy.

this makes me so sad benjamin must have been so lonely :’(

I know the comments talk about the sadness of tasmanian tigers being possibly extinct, but the quality of the video and the fact its from 1933 stuns me. the fact that it was recorded before ww2 even happened is also extremely stunning

Looks prehistoric

It is truly sad what happened to this beautiful animal but we should be thankful to the person who recorded this footage even if it is only 2mins long it allows generations to be able to see what the magnificent Thylacine was like.

Its behaviour is very dog like. In particular the yawn when you put dog in the same situation

RIP The Tasmanian Tiger. You faced something no living thing should have ever.

Imagine there's an alien invasion, they exterminate all humans on the globe. You're the last one, and they put you in a cell just to observe and record you. You don't speak their language, they don't speak yours, and they're not even interested in communicating. You are all alone, and your cell is your entire universe. That's this guy's fate.

Such a beautiful animal, unique in ways we never got the chance to understand before it was killed. Fuck humans honestly.

I never seen this animal in person and to know it's gone forever just makes me very sad.

These guys are SO fascinating. They’re marsupials, like kangaroos and wallabies, but because of isolation, they evolved to fill a predatory/scavenger niche and through convergent evolution, the assumed a body plan almost identical to big cats and wild dogs. They just look so surreal and strange to me; like, the uncanny valley between a kangaroo and a cougar.

It's so unreal to see a extinct animal in actual footage u never see tht with anything else like dinosaurs

It's so cool how the stripes disappear and then re-appear depending on your angle of view. It is strange how seeing animals, first in black & white and then in color, to me, is so different. Seeing them in color makes them more real for some reason. The same with seeing people. Thank you for posting this.

It's sad how we killed such a unique and amazing species

This makes my heart break.

It looks so adorable! Such a cutie.

oh my god...that baby is so precious and beautiful. i will remember this video forever.

What a terrible experience for the animal. No water, no food, no shelter, no blanket or shade! What hell.

They're so strange looking but I oddly love it..it has a charm of it's own. It's very cute. Too bad it's sadly not around anymore..

What a shame..we only have photos and videos .

My friend in the early 90s swears she saw two of them, I remember her story clearly. Driving from Adelaide to Mount Gambier her headlights hit what she saw the back legs and tails of this animal them early hours of the morning in the middle of nowhere going off the side of the road. She still holds her story strong.

How is the quality footage from 1933 better than any security or news footage we have today?????

Imagine the amount of pain knowing you're the last of your species. No one like you exists anymore, and you're all alone

What kind of sounds do they make?

He looks like such a good boy too with those eys.

What a beautiful creature. We humans really suck sometimes.

What a beautiful creature. I wonder what animals from today our children will only see in videos.

This is literally one of the saddest films I've ever seen.

While watching this video kinda creeps me out because of the dead silence and eerie mood, it is sad to see that humans are the reason this amazing animal is extinct although looking through these comments makes me grateful to know that there’s still people who care

This hurts my heart.

They were such cool animals. Such a shame that they're gone now. :/

Fascinating and heartbreaking

If it could speak, it would say how sad it may have been to know that it was the last of its kind. No, family, friends, or one like it in the universe. A genuinely terrifying feeling.