#tasmaniantiger — Public Fediverse posts
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Hunting with thylacines
* "They used to tell stories about going hunting with thylacines," Djalama man Joey Nganjmirra.
"Arnhem Land rock art raises questions about Tasmanian tigers living on mainland" >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-04/thylacine-rock-art-arnhem-land-tasmanian-tiger-mainland/106528418* "The last known thylacine...died in captivity at Hobart's Beaumaris Zoo on September 7, 1936, due to neglect and exposure to extreme weather. The species was officially extinct in 1986, following decades of state-sponsored bounty hunting, habitat destruction, and disease that decimated the population" >>
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/extinction-of-thylacine#thylacines #TasmanianTiger #Indigenouspeoples #djankerrk #RockArt #biodiversity #extinction #settlersociety
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NT rock art thousands of years old sheds new light on the mysterious Tasmanian tiger https://theconversation.com/nt-rock-art-thousands-of-years-old-sheds-new-light-on-the-mysterious-tasmanian-tiger-278670 #art #culture #australia #tasmaniantiger #science #STEM
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What is almost as cool as tasmanian devils?
Yes, tasmanian tigers (also known as Thylacine) -
Nine decades on, a witness to the last Tasmanian thylacine recounts her experience
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-05/thylacine-witness-reounts-her-experience/105735342
#News #Australia #Thylacine #Tasmania #TasmanianTiger #Extinction
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Scientists are making strides toward resurrecting the Tasmanian tiger, with a major effort using cutting-edge genetic technology. The ambitious project aims to restore this long-extinct species to its natural environment, possibly within the next decade. The collaboration between researchers and biotech companies is gaining momentum, offering hope for biodiversity restoration.
#TasmanianTiger #Conservation #GoodNews #ExtinctionReversal #WildlifeRestoration
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/effort-to-bring-back-the-tasmanian-tiger-builds-steam/ -
Three new ancestors added to #TasmanianTiger's storyline https://phys.org/news/2024-09-ancestors-added-tasmanian-tiger-storyline.html
Three new #thylacinids (Marsupialia, Thylacinidae) from late Oligocene deposits of the #Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern #Queensland https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2384595
"#paleontologists say the #NewSpecies are now the oldest members of the #Thylacine family to date, estimated to be 25–23 million years old, making them late #Oligocene in age."
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The Thylacine Museum - A Natural History of the Tasmanian Tiger #thylacine #TasmanianTiger http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/
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Suspicious photos of alleged thylacine revealed by pop wildlife biologist
New photos claim to show a thylacine in Tasmania. Distributed by a popular television personality who popularizes mysterious animal sightings, the photos and the backstory appear bogus. In today’s tech landscape, where digital images can be easily manipulated or manufactured, cryptid images without additional evidence should, by default, not be considered useful.
On May 14, 2024, TV wildlife biologist Forrest Galante posted a YouTube video showing a Zoom discussion with a guy from Minneapolis who claims he and his Dad came upon what they thought was a dog on the side of the road at night in Tasmania. They stopped to help and took photos when they realized it wasn’t a dog. The photos he provided appear to show a thylacine, which has been extinct for decades. Galante interviewed the witness “Zach” and revealed the photos said to have been taken in mid-April at an undisclosed location (near Upper Stowport).
The video interview is long and somewhat annoying to watch because the witness isn’t very helpful and also keeps his face hidden. Galante doesn’t know what to think because he sees some problems in the story and the photos. While mentioning the inconsistencies, he still desperately wants to believe and also benefits from the hype this could generate. Many people want to believe the thylacine is still existing out there.
Thylacines (or Tasmanian tigers) were marsupials native to Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea that filled the role of top predator. The last known thylacine died in 1936 and none were captured in the wild after 1933. Data strongly suggests that the their population was in decline and efforts to eliminate thylacines from farmed areas worked too well. After decades of no verified accounts of its existence, it was declared officially extinct by the Tasmanian government in the 1980s. Some people insist it still is out there and see their possibility everywhere, however, the evidence is very poor – just stories and terrible visuals.
The photos given to Galante looked to be edited or created from existing photos and models. They are strangely blurry, the background and shadows look wrong and the features inconsistent. There is no indication, besides the witness’ word, that they were taken in Tasmania. He did not give the exact location. The details are nonexistent or conflicting. Galante noticed the photos were not originals; he asked for the original unedited photos but there is no word that he got them. By the end of the interview, Galante assured Zach that he would contact authorities regarding this sighting.
More analysis here by Miles and Trey:
Plastic Plesiosaur Podcast May 15, 2024
And Reddit: At Least Some of the Thylacine “photos” appear to be manipulated images of Archesuchus’ Thylacine doll
Galante and the photos are getting significant attention. Thanks to social media, more people than ever see these images and volunteer their opinion based on their hopes, not their zoological or technological experience. From the responses on Reddit and YouTube, there is a significant percentage of those who think these are genuine pics of a live thylacine, some people think the photos are clearly hoaxed, and a third portion think these photos are fakes but the thylacine is really still around. The proponents of a living thylacine have opinions based on little more than wishful thinking.
I marvel at the many instances where, when presented with the same visual evidence (for example, the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film), some people will insist that the images of a cryptid are obviously fake and others insist with similar enthusiasm they are totally legitimate and proof-positive documentation. It can’t be both. One party’s opinion is entirely wrong.
What’s the best bet?
For those making an extraordinary claim – that something declared extinct and not seen for decades is still around – you must do better than grainy, awful visuals or “I saw it” stories. Regardless of the alleged sighting reports of creatures, whether it be a thylacine or a Bigfoot, there remains key pieces missing in the interpretation that would make the animals’ reality plausible. We have no body parts, no DNA, no reliable sighting patterns – no item to test or solid path to follow. If there is one animal, there must be many, yet we don’t see corresponding evidence of that. People were able to track and kill thylacines to the point where so few remained that they could not survive. Why do we not see them now? How did so few remain for so long without discovery? Because they are truly gone and people aren’t seeing or photographing thylacines.
#cryptid #Cryptozoology #ForrestGalante #photos #Tasmania #tasmanianTiger #thylacine
https://sharonahill.com/?p=8561
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It is widely accepted that the Tasmanian tiger or #thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) became #extinct following the demise of the last captive individual at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart on 7 September 1936 – but many sightings have been reported since.
A detailed analysis of more than 1200 sightings suggests the Tasmanian tiger survived until the 1980s, and that there’s a slim chance a few are still around.
Read about the history – and future – of thylacine… https://ausgeo.co/thylacine
📷 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Collection
#ausgeo #wildlife #conservation #tasmania #seeaustralia #tiger #tasmaniantiger #wildoz
#environment #academia #research #academicchatter #biology #history #histodon #nature #wildlife #photography #science #scientist -
Extinction is Forever. (I know people have been talking about trying to revive this species.)
Can we please try and look after what is left.Watercolour painting of a Thylacine, the Tasmanian Tiger.
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Scientists Recover #RNA From an #ExtinctSpecies for the First Time.
A team of researchers managed to isolate and sequence century-old RNA from the thylacine, also known as the #Tasmaniantiger. #extinction #deExtinction https://gizmodo.com/rna-recovery-extinct-species-thylacine-tasmanian-tiger-1850853441 -
19-SEP-2023
RNA for the first time recovered from an extinct specieshttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1001963 #science #extinction #TasmanianTiger #RNA #transcriptome
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Fascinating study suggests it's very likely that the thylacine, last confirmed to exist in 1936, only truly went extinct late in the 20th century...and there's a small chance a few could be roaming Tasmania's most remote wildernesses even now. 😮
#science #ecology #extinction #thylacine #Tasmania #Australia #animals #TasmanianTiger #thoughts
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723014948
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Commission for Dawn of her thylacine OC Drusa!
It was so fun to draw a swimming character! Making her hair look flowy and adding the lighting were my favourite parts ^^
#MastoArt #FurryArt #DigitalArt #Thylacine #TasmanianTiger #Swimming #Swimsuit #ThylacineFurry
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First impression of my new urban #edc #messenger #bag: the #hazard4 kato: looks nice, fits well for me, quality a little bit less than #vanquest or #maxpedition ... some stitches had loose ends and needed to be flamed for example. Added #tasmaniantiger glasses case on the side and 'deluxe strap pad' ...
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Requisite terrible #thylacine photos.
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Humanity is triggering extinctions at rates not seen since the Earth’s largest mass extinction event 66 million years ago.
Should we bring Tasmanian Tigers back from the dead?
#auspol #tasmaniantiger #extinction
https://1earthmedia.com/can-and-should-we-bring-animals-back-from-extinction/
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Re-posting after correcting a faulty link. Thanks to those who let me know. <3
"Museums stocked with 'platysausages' as taxidermists get it wrong on Australian animals."
🔗 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-05/poor-taxidermy-making-fattypuses-out-of-australian-animals/101827332
"We often find flatypuses that are pancake flat. We find fattypuses that are overstuffed, or sometimes the platysausage, which is long and thin and sausage-shaped."Great article By Zoe Kean , ABC Radio Hobart, with food for thought for museums.
We talked about the confusion experienced by Europeans seeing our Platypus for the first time in Episode 19: The Platypus Controversy.
Very amusing. 😄. Link to listen below if you’re interested.🔗 🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/2019/01/25/19-platypus-controversy/ 🎧
#History #AustralianHistory #AustralianStories #Histodons #AustralianPodcast #HistoryPodcast #Taxidermy #BadTaxidermy #Museums #Platypus #Echidna #TasmanianTiger #Zoology #AustralianFauna #OzAnimals
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"Museums stocked with 'platysausages' as taxidermists get it wrong on Australian animals."
🔗 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-05/poor-taxidermy-making-fattypuses-out-of-australian-animals/101827332
"We often find flatypuses that are pancake flat. We find fattypuses that are overstuffed, or sometimes the platysausage, which is long and thin and sausage-shaped."Great article By Zoe Kean , ABC Radio Hobart, with food for thought for museums.
We talked about the confusion experienced by Europeans seeing our Platypus for the first time in Episode 19: The Platypus Controversy.
Very amusing. 😄. Link to listen below if you’re interested.🔗 🎧https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/2019/01/25/19-platypus-controversy/🎧
#History #AustralianHistory #AustralianStories #Histodons #AustralianPodcast #HistoryPodcast #Taxidermy #BadTaxidermy #Museums #Platypus #Echidna #TasmanianTiger #Zoology #AustralianFauna #OzAnimals