Saw one in Barrington Tops NSW. We thought it was a quoll as we had no idea what it was or what a quoll looked like. I did some reasearch to discover other sightings in Barrington/Glouster area. My mind was blown. Everyone who sees these things becomes obsessed because youve encountered something mythical and now magical. Wonderful
@@joaorebochooaw6321 yes thats what i thought as well. I obviously can't confirm it was a thylacine but you tell me what it was, a small panther looking animal with tiger stripes on the base of its back and start of tail
yeah, they dont deserve to be cooped up in cages just to be looked at and yelled at by little children, or to be hunted for their pelt. it is just rediculous
I would love for them to be still around but logically there is no possibility that they are I think what people are seeing are foxes and dingos suffering from Sarcoptic Mange.
If they are still around, maybe it's better we don't find them. After all we exterminated this animal as soon as we got here. Who's to say if we discovered this animal still alive, we wouldn't do it all over again?
@@limpan3961 The problem is our species. On every continent the megafauna disappeared shortly after homo sapiens set foot on it for the first time. So yes, we suck :(
@@domenigo97 You and Salem are both wrong. We do cause many extinctions, but most of the time the issue is invasive species we bring. Most of Australia is uninhabited by man today, in the past there were far less people, no way we hunted thylacine to extinction in Australia that's ridiculous. The issue was ancient man brought canids. Dogs directly competed with thylacines, foxes directly competed with thylacine. Canids out competed the marsupials and there is a reason for this. This happened 3 million years ago [before humans] when saber toothed tigers out competed a saber toothed marsupial called thylacosmilus in south America, other carnivorans out competed almost all terror birds. The difference was continental drift brought in invasive species, we brought canids to Australia. Tasmania was a refuge because man did not bring canids to the island, there are no dingoes in Tasmania. They were endangered. As for your assertion that we killed of the great megafauna, the Quaternary extinction is a mystery we do not know the cause. We humans lived with woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, snow hyenas cave lions etc for 400,000 years of our existence, older human species lived along side them for millions of years yet 12k years ago all of a sudden megafauna around the globe died, most humans died out as well. All the while African rhinos and elephants, which have been around us from the beginning, are still alive!
People killed them because they were protected their sheep. And before even human hunted them down dogs and foxes compete with them which the main factor Tasmanian tiger couldn't keep up By that time they were extinct or so we thought they extinct
I've read that numerous tribal people in Irian Jaya (Indonesian New Guinea) have claimed to have seen them in their high valleys. I hope they are still living......and in several places in Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania, of course. Beautiful animal.
I saw a creature in jarrahdale on scarp road near the start close to the farm on one afternoon it ran like the feature in this video. Had stripes and a strange face that as it darted close to the bonnet of my car its head was tilted in our direction I distinctly remember it having rings on its black tail. Never seen it again this was almost 7 years ago at least but me and my friend never forget seeing it. Was almost as big as a large dog and has a cat like face and black ears.
Yes. Of course, they would be a little fuzzy and out of focus. Like all Big Foot sightings and others. They have to leave something to the imagination..
Yes, it is amazing that when you stand next to a small enclosure with a movie camera using 8 mm film on a tripod you get a better image than when you stick a small hobby camera or cell phone out of a window during a spontaneous sighting.
Hey Guys, It’s okay, because an Australian university is (was secretly) studying and monitoring a large family of these animals at the top end of far North Queensland. The local indigenous people have known they were there for a very long time. The University has been tracking and monitoring them for about a year now. Thank you.
@@TURK_182 I think it's too wet up there for bush fires, dunno,just guessing it's a lot different in the tropical parts of Australia not so dry,not so many bushfires
Yeah, I'd need I little more evidence, as they would be the first official mainland thylacines in two thousand years, according to science, so I'm slightly sceptical.
Me my mate seen a thylacine run across the road on McEnroe Road Tarpeena sa, out shooting one night, 2002. Its the only one I've seen in all my years out bush, it's Canter across the road was like nothing else.. I'll never forget That wildlife Encounter..
The males have pouches to protect their goodies - they can take it. Thanks for that This is very good too - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nmSTv-Gi7RU.html
Yes. They use camera traps all over the world to track the movements of other endangered species like tigers and leopards. They should use them for this as well. Then we could have some really solid evidence.
That would be too easy. Like Loch Ness and Bigfoot and Aliens, they are too smart for camera traps. Only the nut jobs get to see them and record them on grainy 1912 cameras even though it's 2018 and everyone has a phone camera in their pockets now a days.
Ok, I used to live in SA, and one night my husband and I were driving past southern suburbs that are closer to the bush, and we saw something on the side of the road. I kept on driving, then looked at my husband and asked 'did you see it?' he said 'yes, I did'. It was like a slow action movie, I stopped the car, did u-turn to come back and check that thing again, but nothing was there. So, what we have seen looked like a large cat/leopard/tiger? with long tale, staying still on the side of the road, it was NOT a kangaroo or fox, ok? It was a large animal. Till this day I have no idea what we saw.
@@jayaprakashantherayil8895 I`m not a dude and you need to spend less time on the internet and untrustworthy websites, then you`ll be able to assess critically other people` intellectual abilities prior to asking irrelevant questions or making nonsense assumptions...
In my experience you often hear wildlife rather than see them. There are well attested ear witness accounts who can describe the call of the Thylacine. Surely if they are breeding near human habitation in Australia there ought to be strange vocalisations as well as sightings? Don't get me wrong, I would love it if they have survived somewhere in the Outback.
If you look at 3:10, you will see that the back legs have a long midsection, and a short lower section. This matches with the good footage available for the creature. For me this is the most important characteristic. So, for me, it looks like the thylacine could still be alive! But my son says it is just a dog...
Based on marsupial high reproduction rate, and it’s been 70-80 years since supposed extinction, if they’re still alive there’s been plenty of time to repopulate in high numbers, so there should be many more sightings if they’re around.
@@daviddickinson936 You don't need to be a Ph.D to understand why Marsupials have a lower reproductive rate than placental mammals, there's only so much room inside a pouch for young coupled with most marsupials just breeding less frequently A cat can have a litter of 6+ kittens every couple months, most marsupials probably only have a couple small litters a year if even that
Yet others see 2 of those clips as clearly fox, even to the white tip on the blurred tail that those who refuse to observe overlook. First one is a mangy fox with right front paw injured. Last one just a dog or fox. And those are clear records, yet their providers are probably convinced are something different. Common creatures, normal fauna, and not sadly tigers.
It’s a big country mate, and I’m sure they are out there. Me and my mates either saw a ghost of one in the 90’s, sprinting flat out once when in the Western Australian country, won’t say where. But mate we all sat in silence until one of us asked if the other boys saw it , and then we described what we each thought we saw and and concluded eventually what we all saw and all agreed. Stripe and hopping back legs. Like a gallop.
Robyn Nagorcka's video is of a fox with mange, with an injured foot. The video from the 70's clearly shows a fox with mange as well. Slow down the video and you will see the last bits of fur still on its tail at the tip.
They've been sighted in dense bushland in the Blue Mountains of NSW. There are populations on Tasmania AND the mainland. They'll be fine if we just leave them alone. They aren't scared of us, but they should be!
With the phone interviews, all of his print casts, as well as other people's casts, makes the photos and videos even more substantial. The government should step up and be willing to put a little money behind proving they still exist, because it will be proven, and the government is going to come out of it looking like they were trying to pull a cover-up. Which all governments will try to do with many different things that they don't want the general public to know about.
@A Florida Son 🤣 The idea of Neil's photo and video evidence being "substantial" is truly hilarious!! The way he gets so excited about things that are SO obviously not thylacines is what's got me so convinced that they're extinct, at least outside of New Guinea.
@@AFloridaSon None of the information provided is even slightly convincing. No great conspiracy exists except on the mind of the gullible or misled. The fact fools or ignorant exist among so-called professionals shows problems with education and general knowledge, not that somehow thylacines have hatched on the mainland Australia. They can't even identify foxes and cats. The soliciting of funds from the gullible to pursue this outright falsehood is abhorrent. The funding of reliable research in Tasmania might have merit, and these con-men and fantasisers are not reliable researchers.
@@stephenbrand5661 And people donate funds to keep these spreaders of untruths in beer and toys. The most useful donation would be a childs book with pictures of dogs and foxes and cats.
I took a road trip around Tasmania in 2009 and asked around. Some people I talked to swear they’ve seen it. I also came across something on a late night drive that I couldn’t identify, looked too small to be a thylacine though
If they are still alive, Just leave them alone until they have a higher enough population where there would be more sightings and eventually officially say they are not dead
That's so not a fox, I have heard stories of sightings in 5 states, and seen paw prints that don't match foxes, dingo or feral dogs. I believe they are around just in very small numbers that roam.
In France, we have an old legend about a "beast" in the Gévaudan region, which was described as something between a wolf, a lion and a hyena. It is largely accepted today that the beast was a hyena, or maybe a thylcacine, who broke free from the local fair (historians found out that in the region there was a well-known "curiosity zoo" which sold exotic animals).
That thing apparently killed a lot of people. So slightly possible a hyaena (a few have been man killers), but wolf or lion have much more credibility. Thylacine? They killed chickens, not humans.
I read that story, and could say categorically that a thylacine would not have killed so many people, and there is no record in Australia or them killing people not even children. I recall that the animal description in France turned out to be closer to that of a Lion rather than a Hyena, and could also have escaped from a fair to I suppose.
There have been quite a few sightings in the Southwest of Western Australia. I used to live down there and saw one myself I am sure when out in the bush on motorcycles.
Like a lot of things hoped to be around--bigfoot, angels, saucermen--no one has produced any proof. I'm rooting that they find some one day but I'm not holding my breath until that day comes.
Jim Pauff I'm normally a skeptic about things like bigfoot, ufos etc as the so called evidence is usually bullshit or ridiculous CGI effects. This case however seems plausible due to the video footage plus the animal did definitely exist at one time.
@@MichaelWilliams-mo1vv I'd agree with you if the quality of the videos was higher. What I see could be mangy dogs or foxes. I'm rooting for the tiger being around but you have to convince me. It seems to me that the rational thing.
Australia is a continent with 24 mil people on it most of them living in the city's so even if they find alive dinosaurs in Australia it wouldn't be far-fetched.
I saw that exact creature just coming out of kersbrook in the adelaide hill didn't have enough time to film I really beleive Tasmanian tigers are still alive
What pathetic and horrible creatures are humans. When they were around, they hunted these magnificent things down to extinction. Now they are desperate for a glimpse.
Man, i'm such a terrible person because animals who slaughtered farm animals were hunted by some old biddies who are probably dead of old age in AUSTRALIA
It's very unlikely the last one in captivity was the last one alive... But a tiny remaining population would be inbred and vulnerable. The sightings in the 70s could easily be real... but the numbers would have expanded by now if the species was still going... Could be in PNG
I'm not convinced but I'm also not counting out the possibility that Thylacines could still be out there. But my questions is simple: We have fantastic tech these days called trail cams which can be strapped to a tree and photograph anything that triggers it with movement. Why is nobody using them? Or are they, and they just aren't seeing any thylacines?
I'm guessing they are using trail cams, but just like with God, you can't prove a negative. It can always be argued that they simply haven't been filmed by these cameras "yet".
Active--You most certainly can prove a "positive." Right now, scientists, most of them, rule out the possibility of a living, breeding colony of Thylacines. All it will take is one crisp, clear video of one of them, or a body, and we will all be on board for the protection of this species. But it has been many decades since the last one (known) died in captivity in the 30's. Don't get me wrong--I hope Thylacines are still here--but there is no real evidence.
You might have misunderstood what I was trying to convey. I agree with you that they are probably extinct. But a lack of decent video footage will not convince those who desperately want to believe they are still alive.
The problem with game cameras is to cover a *very large area* you you need an *unbelievably large number of game cams,* and *somebody* has to *pay for them.* Plus you have to know *where* to put the cams in the first place. You ALSO have to have dedicated teams to service these cameras in review all the footage caught on them. The money and resources needed to do all that would never be available until it was proven the thylacines still existed, and then you wouldn't need the game cams anyway....
One Tasmanian tour operator has since reportedly added another U.S. $1.36 million to the prize pool. But the money is not just a click away. Entrants will have to submit digital photos of an unharmed tiger and later provide video footage as well as a certificate from a vet who has examined the animal.
I think they're still around. I'm a big sceptic but some of the footage in this clip was the real deal. The stiff tail, the weird large head. I can't believe settlers back then killed them all. Australia is huge, there are spots even unknown to the aborigines.
Us human beings are garbage sometimes the dog should have been in the cage it should have been roaming free forgive us mother nature for what we have done
I believe they are still out there, Australia is vast and some parts very remote: hopefully that will keep away from humans. The thing is you get two different types of people, the ones who see one and feel the need to tell the world and the ones who realise that if they tell everyone where and when they saw one that they’d probably get hunted down. Personally I’d keep it quiet
Yes, that makes me doubtfull about these sightings. There's always enough image quality to support the possibility of whatever is shown being the mysterious creature, but not enough to confirm it.
Yeah, pretty interesting considering they shot crystal clear footage of it in the 1930s lol. I'm always skeptical when people present incredibly distorted video as evidence. A lot of experts seem to think there is a good chance the Thylacine is still alive though.
It's showing and running it's territory. Set up trail cams at the open areas. P.s. I've got a fox in my side yard. He had mange at one point, on the hind end. One, the proportions are off. The muzzle is too big and broad, foxes are more triangular and ummmmm like a triangle that was pinched, the tail is too long and robust, almost looks prehensile and more for balance, the foxes is just a bunch of thin bones wrapped in a plush bush or fur, and is used to convey mood, etc. The length and how it carries itself are off for a fox, the videos are very ungainly and foxes are very fluid. The legs of a fox are delicate, slender, and elegant, while the thylacine are stocky, thick boned and fairly muscular.
The animal in the video around 2:50 totally looks like a fox suffering from mange. The head looks too big because the hair loss makes the body look smaller than with all the usual fluffiness people are used to. The thylacine has fat tail base/long butt. The tail of the mangy fox in the video is slim at its base. It also runs weirdly because one of its front legs is injured. Look up pictures of hairless cats, guinea pigs, hamsters... all of them seem to have weird proportions but it´s because of the absence of fur, not because their proportions are different from the hairy ones.
Yes! People are seeing things! And these guys from the Thylacine awareness mob (whatever?) should be intelligent enough men to know that the majority of the sightings are foxes! And the rest (in the decade after 2000!) are ridiculously to blurred to be taken seriously. (Even your normal contemporary mobile phone could give better definition and stabilisation!) I want to believe it exists still, but I will not stoop to the fact I 'see what I want to see!'
Orkadian yes but foxes don't run and look like that and at least have hope that the Tasmanian tiger is alive hopefully just that I hope humans protect them not hunt them
It makes me sick when some of those "animal rights" supporters say that we humans should all die out. One even commented that a tiger's daily food should be humans!
aspiknf Humans are too varied in nature to be labeled as such, just like in animals such as elephants or chimps that also have their own individuals that vary greatly in behavior. You could say that those animals are nothing but destructive in nature because of how individuals from those species act, despite the more docile members of their species acting in more altruistic ways.
For a species to not die out and have a stable population, there needs to be over around 10,000 alive. The extinction was destined before the last one died, ever since they got under that number. I believe there were a couple alive within the next few years of the apparent last ones death, but it isn't possible to be alive today.
Not to mention thylacines didn't even live on the mainland, they went extinct from there 2000 years ago. If there were any sightings, they would be in Tasmania, not on the mainland.
10,000? And that is a scientific reasoned amount or just a made up figure? It's funny how people accuse people with sightings as making it up....and then quite happily make up their own BS to justify their own opinion. Hopefully you've also at least visited Australia including Tasmania and have a grasp on how vast it is.
I live in Australia and have visited Tasmania many times, and been to several museums and exhibitions based around Thylacines. From talking to several experts there, I heard from them that it is around 10,000+ for there to be a stable population. Not only that but there has been several searches with thousands of dollars put into them, and it took decades of no sightings from search teams for them to declare it extinct.
Slinkylabcat should see the brush tail possums at my place of a night There's a big female that bashes cats I'm not sure if they are bigger than yours but I'd estimate 6kg Or 13.5 lbs
The idea of thylacines still being out there is a little fantastical, and their appearance that looks very much like a dogs does contribute to false sightings... but Australia is a continent with a very low population density, if an animal could hide anywhere, it could hide in Australia.
Caelan Beyer You should have photographed them, or better yet made a cast (unreasonable demand, but this is a very important find). There are actually no remains of any sort, including footprints, directly proving that the thylacine still lives, so it would have been useful.
Proportions? To me it looks really small next to the grass behind it. Compare the relative size of the ears with those of a thylacine... Its now absolutely definitive what it isn't. Note also the height of the ankle. Certainly nothing like a Thylacine. There is a group recently collecting blurry, distant images of mangy foxes and claiming they are thylacine, most footage being from well-populated areas in SA (zero road-kill or non-blurry images, oddly enough), they are well known to be hoaxing and strategically avoiding critiques of their claims (all their youtube footage is now 'comments disabled' because in every case they were utterly disproven by numerous people) and this is some of their footage.
