It was trotting quickly with a stiff legged gait. So it was that stealthy, whatever it was, that even the pademelons who hear one twig break and they're outta there, it didn't hear it.I've been running tours out there for seven years, but you know going out into the rainforest, you know three or four times a week and that's the only time I've seen something that I couldn't explain. Source: Cronshaw, Damon. I found fresh faeces that may be its (it was not obviously male) and have frozen a sample. Feb 28, 2021. ", "During September 1983, I organised a major search for evidence of living Thylacines in the Wollongambie Wilderness, east of Lithgow. ", "That month Mr Ron Perry was picnicking with his family in the valley around 3pm one day on the bank of the Cox River Picnic Ground. The domain will be registered with the name servers configured from the start. In fact, one might argue that Naardings account is more likely to be true than not, that he happened to see one of the very last living thylacines, and that the species went extinct some time after 1982. ", Source:http://campbelltown-library.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-minto-monster.html. We've done it.". Wilfred Batty of Mawbanna, Tasmania, with the last thylacine known to have been shot in the wild. Head Down Under, and youll find quite different wildlife to what we have here in Europe. Its body was a bit chunkier, the legs shorter, the tail had nothing like the length of a cats and hung straight out, and the snout protruded out quite markedly from a head that seemed proportionally smaller than that of a cat. They said there have been sightings in the Pilliga in the past. It looked, then lopped off into the cliff side of the road. A report made to Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit, through his popular Wildlife Talkback radio show. The other possibility is, of course, that its true. The animals face was like a dingo/dog/wolf but with rounder ears. Christian, who now lives at Seal Rocks, remembers the experience as clear as day. (Thylacine Research Unit) provides details of reports made directly to them Among the adult population 25 years old and over, 95.7% of Lindon residents have at least a high school degree or equivalent, 42.5% have a bachelor's degree and 14.8% have a graduate or professional degree. There was some excitement online yesterday as word spread that a family of thylacines was potentially caught on camera. The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct decades ago, so a confirmed sighting would certainly be cause for celebration. There was very little traffic on the roads. WebThe remains of the last known thylacine were discovered at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in 2022. ", "1989, Terania Creek Road, The Channon; running across the road at night in front of his car, Peter saw a thylacine-like animal showing distinct dark brown banding across the body. [chapter title: Thylacines, pp. Mysterious Australia Newsletter 2022(August): 5-14. The shape of the head, legs and body was unmistakable. short-lived and had a life span typically less than a decade, Team plans to make mouse-like dunnart give birth to Tassie tiger, These scientists say de-extinction is a matter of when, not if, Nurse driving home from shift among victims of triple-fatal crash involving allegedly stolen car, Lauren Cranston jailed for eight years over one of Australia's biggest tax frauds, 'They will forever know their dad was a hero': 1,000 mourners farewell slain NSW paramedic, Family of man shot dead by police question why they weren't called in to help, There are 11 First Nations MPs and senators. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. ", "1992, 8.30 pm, Coopers Shoot Road, Bangalow; Vicki said that the weirdest animal appeared in the middle of the road. Moreover, the thylacine was almost as big as a wolf, and was also a predator. El Farallon Owner Killed, According to Robyn, the animal was as large as a big Labrador dog, moving with a slinkyloping movement, somewhat like a cat. My brothers wife and I were in the front. Ah we were looking at the pademelons, there was maybe about six of them just grazing on this clearing and then to, ah out of nowhere, this animal just came and pounced on one of the pademelons and grabbed it around the neck and, and I just just took me by surprise. Does the Tasmanian tiger still exist? Christian Kopp (11 at the time) and his father saw a thylacine when collecting firewood. I looked it up on the internet and it did look like the pictures of thylacines but with no stripes. My friend who was with me describes it as follows, it looked like a kangaroo but it walked rather than hopped. Then it just loped off the road into the yardbetween the two properties. We could see the shape. Source:Paramanov, S. J. The museumestimates that atleast 3,500 thylacines were killed through human hunting between 1830 and the 1920s. The last of thelarge marsupial predator species died in1936, butthe thylacinewas not officially declared extinct until 1982. So this is a new one. From the lab to your inbox. ", "I was driving up the Gap Road at the time when it ran across the road ahead of me, so close that I almost ran over it. Her neck was longthe entire body lithe. Waters uploaded the latest video, titled "THYLACINE JOEY PHOTO" on Sunday, in which he reveals the three images that he believes are likely the extinct marsupials and not a cat or pademelon. The animal was growling aggressively at this time. Ina 2021 statement from TMAG, Mr Mooney rejected Mr Waters's identification of the animals as thylacines. He described it to us as a short greyish-furred animal, with narrow flanks and a drooping, long thin tail. The tracks were situated beneath a small embankment close to the waters edge. (1968). Both times it was too difficult to see it properly, because it was travelling so quickly. Thylacine "On the morning of Thursday 24th March 1983, I received a phone call from Mr John Turner of Shipley, located on the west side of Blackheath close to the Kanimbla Valley cliffs. Update: February 23 @ 4.35pm: Sadly, it looks like this wont in fact be the discovery of the century, as the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery determined the animals in the images are Tassie pademelons. (modern). Two of the men who hounded the above woman out of town, who later saw it themselves. It's also not the first time Mr Mooney has poured cold water on a reported sighting. The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database. After about 5 min I took off again south desperatly trying to get my head around what I had just seen 20 min south of Broken Hill!! Robyn was driving near the Club House just before entering Cliff Drive, where a two-storied,shingle-roofed house stands amid pine trees, on the corner opposite the golf course and beside asecond house, when in the headlights glare they both saw a Thylacine moving slowly across the roadfrom the Club House towards two houses. The terrain was undulating wooded hillsides with ajoining farming valleys. It had a very long thin tail that drooped down then lifted up towards the end. 216 pp. ", 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. He signed off: Congratulations everyone. She went outside to investigate and rushed inside to tell me what she saw. ", "15th January 2003, 9.30 am, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Mailman Peter drove right up to a strange looking animal standing on an earth bank on the southern section of Stock Route Road, just behind Billinudgel. To the west of here, outside Capertee, at least two of these elusive forest-dwellers have been claimed seen by campers on separate occasions.". This probably reduced thylacine numbers to the point of no return. Reports from other states and countries can be accessedhere. I have no doubt about what I saw. We were within yards of it when it moved off the road into the scrub with a loping cat-like run. He recalled his father and other old hands from the Pokolbin area, saying there were two different types of native cat the spotted quoll and the rare striped tiger quoll. Wildlife expert pours cold water on claims Tasmanian tiger family Tasmania covers 64,000km and is a very diverse landscape, he says. Even if the evidence was more solid, photos and videos cannot, alone, prove the existence of the thylacine. I have all the images in a little thumbnail directory, and with the cats, I often do a double-take and think, Whats that? he says. When I saw the impressions I recognised them at once as those of a Thylacine, and immediately began making plaster casts of them. Phil described the animal as having body fur of a burnt colour [ie blacky-brown], with a row of orangey-brown stripes extending barrel-wise from about mid-body to tail rump. Ummm but then I started thinking about it you know, what was it that I saw? It was completely unconcerned by the presence of his car and he closely examined it for 5 minutes before it walked off. ", "Pete, of Ocean Shores, was recently talking to his neighbour, Steve, who also has a farm at Wooyung directly adjacent the caravan park. and again as it loped away in a carefree manner. The animal, an obvious Thylacine, then began running along the edge of the highway to vanish into nearby bushes. The animal, he said, was a good 6ft [1.83m] length from nose to tip of tail, and stood about 2ft off the ground on all fours. I saw the animal from a somewhat oblique angle, and the head was not clearly visible. "The Winter of 2022 will be remembered by Heather and I for the number of Blue Mountains bushland sightings of of Thylacines at least a dozen. ", "1999, Brunswick Heads; Jodi saw a striped animal cross the road between the fish co-op and the highway. Daily Telegraph (Australia), 19 November, p. 3. It then chased one of them across the neighbours garden. Rod and I later staked out the site overnight with cameras, in the hope of capturing a tiger on film as it came to drink at the swamp, but failed to see any. There had been recent sightings claims by campers and others. ", "The Winter of 2022 will be remembered by Heather and I for the number of Blue Mountains bushland sightings of of Thylacines at least a dozen. The coat was like a newly sheared sheep in looka short, uniform length, fawn to light brown, and very dense, not laying flat like a dog or cat or even horse coat. Newcastle Herald, 2 March. Its tail was long and straight, resembling that of a kangaroo or wallaby. The salted skin of a freshly shot tiger cat was pegged on the dunny door, Max said. There was also a rock shelter some distance off the rough, 4-wheel drive trail we were on, where we came across pigmy-size ochre paintings. He described it to me at the time, as being not quite the same shape as a dog or dingo, fairly light brown, with stripes on its back. ", "5th March 2006, Sunday, Left Bank Road, Mullumbimby; Elle and her family saw a strange animal in their garden close to the house and watched it as it ran down to the creek. Source: Gilroy, Rex. These were only half-an-hour old and led deep into dense forest. There is no doubt in our minds that the creatures we saw were Tasmanian Tigers, said Sam.". She stated that it looked funny and very skinny and moved weird-like. There were nine of us in all, and about to sleep when, to our utter astonishment, a creature boldly emerged from bushes and walked up to our campfire remains. (2016). At first she thought that it was a wallaby. Source:Anonymous. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. The animal then bounded off up an embankment out of sight. It stood half a metre tall and was about 1 metre in length from nose tip to tail. At the time of writing this book [2017] Thylacine tracks are still being left at this site.". These were of a chocolaty-brown colourand not very obvious. Australasian Post, 31 January. From a newspaper article: "Ive seen plenty of dingoes in my life and Im educated quite well on animals and the bush, he said. Theres something about thylacines that makes you want to believe in them.. It was not a wild dog nor kangaroo". Thursday 13. She was in good condition, no ribs showing. It was covered with short golden-fawn fur with black shadowy marks on the fur tips across the rump like vague bands. We were baffled. ", "On 3rd January 1980 I received a phone call from a Mr Roger Handly and his wife. Mr Pereira also found a pile of excrement left by the animal. The Guardian (Australia), Thursday 1 December. Its body was greyish-brown and when it got up we observed that it's hindquarters appeared "tucked in" and were marked with dark stripes. "On Saturday night, 4th October 1986, Mr Mike Davis was driving from Lithgow past Mount Victoria township. Then she found thatthe woman that worked in the store had recently observed two of the animals chasing and killing a swamp wallaby near her home just a few kms up the valley. The farm owner yelled out Its a monster, we will have to kill it and picking up a stone, threw it at the strange animal. ", "That same year a Tasmanian Tiger-like animal, was seen by Mr Bill Forbes [since deceased] after it had just killed one of the goats he bred on his Mt York Road farm.". With 78 contributors, including 58 with a PhD, it is set to be the new definitive volume on the species for many years to come, and includes the last two pieces the late Col Bailey ever wrote on the thylacine among many others. The eyes were very keen, watching in a way domestic dogs do not. The name thylacine roughly translates from Greek via Latin as dog-headed pouched one. A rough transcript of her report (1:32-3:09) is as follows: "I take people out into the rainforest with the night vision goggles, ummm, and we go looking for animals. Max was with his father on the trip. Jackson Ryan is CNET's award-winning science editor. Spooky to see the drawing on the web site and realise what it might be!", "the tasmania tiger is thriving around bilambil Hieghts Inner bushland, it was spotted only a couple of weeks ago by 2 well educated people driving up hogans road, it ran across the road into the bushland, description was a huge tan brown dog cat like creature with black stripes down it side, they said it didnt look like a dog and was much bigger but did resemble a big cat panther like but simarlarities of both, thet said it was fast but they still got plenty of vision of this creature", "During May 2010 a female Thylacine and cub were seen moving through bushland not far from Wombeyan Caves by campers. "Further west beyond Blackheath lies the town of Mount Victoria, on the western edge of the Blue Mountains. In his announcement video, Waters said he and the committee of the thylacine group had discovered the photographs from a camera in north-east Tasmania. No sex identifiers noticed. "The animals are very unlikely to be thylacines and are most likely Tasmanian pademelons," the statement said. His unit has already assembled the first complete genome of the Tasmanian tiger after using DNA from thylacines that had been preserved in alcohol. He noticed the ears were rounded and that it stood about 1/2m high, its mouth was open. "Rex claimed he saw a thylacine on Tuesday, February 22, 1972 at 10.15pm on the Great Western Highway, south of Blackheath. My attention was caught by the movement of something about 60 meters away that at first glance I thought was a medium sized feral dog standing head down in short grass roughly 15 meters from the eucalypt scrub that borders the paddock like plains of the area. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. He accelerated up to it and observed that its back, rump & tail were covered with dark bands. "Make up your own mind," urges Neil Waters, who captured the images. The last known individual died in 1936 in Hobart Zoo; the last reliable sighting of a wild one dates back to 1933. The tapered tail and we could see the faint stripes. An anonymous report (including two separate sightings) made to REPAD: "In about 2007, 2008 I saw this creature at Bowna Reserve in NSW (near Albury 2640). We were driving on xxxx Rd at the time. The front legs were longer than the back, but shorter than those of a greyhound. As we approached the left-hand turnoff to Evans Lookout, at the corner of the local council water catchment fence which encloses a vast area of dense scrubland, we saw in the glare of the car's headlights a strange animal. They phoned and spoke about their experience on my Wildlife Talkback programme.". These tracks were at least several hours old. If thisis all legit, then this means well actually have verified pics of a fuckenTasmanian tiger released on March 1 next Monday. Robyn says the animal appeared to know where it was heading, as if it were used to a particularroute. By this time our car was but a few feet from the animal which just stood there staring at our vehicle, mesmerised by the headlights' glare. Our knowledge base has a lot of resources to help you! I decided to examine the animal carefully before risking movement. Subscribe to BBC Wildlife Magazine today and get a Timeless Hedgehog Haus or, New England Nestbox as your welcome gift! Rather excited about the whole thing I tried officially reporting it to the ranger, who showed absolutely no interest in the matter, as you might expect. Its snout was narrow and pointed, the eyes appeared sloping backwards, the ears were tall and rounded and it had a long neck. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. Tantalising sightings of this enigmatic Australian marsupial continue to inspire the belief that it could still be out there. After looking at the cars headlights, it suddenly ran off into the bush.". The animal stood about 61cm off theground on all fours and had a body about 30cm in depth. Trailing a Tiger. My brother was asleep in the back. (p. 26), "The Newnes Plateau country has lately [2015-2016] been the scene of a few tiger sightings, and paw prints finds which may, or may not have been made by Thylacines. ", "June 2003, Rosebank; Neil saw an animal that he could not identify while driving to Rosebank from Clunes at 8.30 pm. 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. Thylacines had long since disappeared from mainland Australia when British colonists arrived in the late 18th century, with an estimated 2,000-4,000 remaining on the island of Tasmania. Robyn noticed the tail itself was 2ft [61 cm] in length. (2021). Home; Service. Nearby we found a pile of day-old excrement containing pig bristles and crushed pig bone. Can you believe that? 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Dogs and wolves are more closely related to elephants than they are to thylacines. Her interests include natural history, wildlife, the outdoors, health and fitness. At the base of the tail there was an orange ring about 50 mm wide and it was followed by 6 to 8 yellow rings about 40 mm wide. The last close sighting was about 6 months ago and it was right by our car on our forest drive. With all due respect I disagree with Nick Mooneys opinion and thats fine - thats perfectly OK - and he encourages me in his report to get as many opinions as I can because his is only one opinion, Mr Waters says in the new video. The trap had apparently caught something, but by the time he reached the cage it was empty. You can unsubscribe at any time. [January 1979 sighting by married couple at night], "1979, Tyagarah; David saw a strange thylacine-like animal and it reminded him of the Tyagarah Lion observations that people had talked about over the years.". Dave Watts/JACANA/Gamma-Rapho/Getty, Choose your welcome treat! We hold to the principle that if you give more in value than what you take in payment, you will always have enough. There were no visible markings on the body, although he thought the rump was perhaps darker than the rest of the animal, which had a tan colouring. It stopped looked at us approaching then ran off in to the bushes. It was in clear view for 12-15 seconds. Like you're listening, you're looking, and you're identifying attributes of the animal. At this moment they both saw a greyhound-like animal, long and skinny, run across the highway from the right-hand side [south] to the left [north]. "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. Farmer opens up Tassie tiger mystery. Later, back in Canberra, I came across an illustration of the Tasmanian Tiger, and immediately recognised it as the animal I had observed on my trip. Each time it was in the evening, after dark, between 6pm and 8:30pm if I remember correctly. Its ears were not as big as a roo or a fox. Source:Cronshaw, Damon. Earlier last year, on the road between Ballina and Eltham, just after the Alstonville turnoff, dad and my brother saw something similar. ", "1995, Coopers Lane, Main Arm; Hayley observed a golden-fawn animal with a striped tail. We have been troubled by irresponsible dog owners whose pets have eaten our free range chooks (now all well fenced) so actually got out of the car to photograph the animal but it calmly loped off and it was too dark to get a photo. Theres a tangible sense that it was here, and that we should have saved it while we had the opportunity.. ", "During April 1983 such an animal was reported making raids on a Kanimbla Valley farm.". Thats because when I was checking the SD cards I found some photos that were pretty damn good. The animal then made a quick exit back into the ferns.". Rex Gilroy, during an expedition north of the Grose Valley: "We returned to the swamp last February, and found more evidence. "Later, on another detailed search for evidence above the gully, we stumbled upon tracks of a full-grown animal, an apparent female, alongside paw prints of a cub at least several hours old. 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. It is obvious a colony of six to eight of these creatures exists in the gully. I think it was young about 12-13 inches from the ground to the top of its back.I didn't see any stripes and I don't think it had any but it was obviously a marsupial. Both at the same time - exactly the same time - my brothers wife and I yelled "Tasmanian Tiger". It was only about a metre or two in front of my car. A fuller account of his sighting can be found on his website: "On Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15 pm, a female companion and I were driving along the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath toward Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. The family set steel traps to catch rabbits/hares that were pests in the area. Can I use my account and my site even though my domain name hasn't propagated yet. I remember it had pricked ears, but nothing else because the whole encounter was over in seconds". It has me very interested.". Wales Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) Sighting Reports I have no doubt that these animals are living somewhere out there in the Glenbrook National Park, from where they enter Glenbrook townships fringes at times in search of food, he said, in an interview with me in 1985. Zabloc saw an animal near the Minyon Falls turnoff on Repentance Creek Road that could have been a Thylacine. [a pack of thylacine-like animals seen on the Vic/NSW border in 1977]. Apart from its size, it was greyhound-like in appearance with narrowing flanks, its body sloping downward to a long thin tail, which followed the slope of the back and seemed kangaroo-like in that it did not appear to wag. Copyright 2023 The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database. The database currently contains 11,305 species and subspecies (as of April 2023). It was at the edge of the bush at the top of a small gully. It was 60 to 70 cm high and covered with short ginger-blond short hair with a narrow, small triangular-shaped head, a long thin neck, a long straight, thin tail that was as long as the animal.