The animal then snarled at us showing long pointed teeth, before disappearing into long grass. ", "On Thursday afternoon 28th January 2015, on a Blackheath fire trail, above a gully Rex Gilroy found a number of Thylacine paw prints in a sandy patch. Two days later their teenage son observed it and described it as being a cross between a kangaroo and a greyhound. User "SoulNavigator" reported in the comment section about a sighting they and a relative had while driving: "20 years ago myself , my brother and his wife drove from Brisbane to melbourne via inland route. Nick Mooney, Honorary Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, last week said that based on the physical characteristics shown in the photos, the animals were very unlikely to be thylacines. The Tasmanian tiger or 'thylacine' The thylacine looked like a large, long dog with stripes and a long stiff tail. I recognised them to be those of an undoubted Thylacine. It emerged from the vegetation 70m ahead, running across the road, travelling north and then stopped to watch his approach. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery,. It would have been great if I had been able to get even one photo of the creature.", "I was driving out west of nsw 60 km west of Balranald when I came upon a tassie tiger at 2am. In 1957, a specimen was reportedly spotted from a helicopter. The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, once populated much of Tasmanian and mainland Australiawhere it is also still searched forbut few know that the animal was present on New Guinea as well. In the series of images, the one photo Mr Waters is confident is a tiger joey, experts believe is probably a Tasmanian pademelon joey. Anonymous. ", Johns third sighting of a tiger took place in March 1984 around 6.10am. These tracks were however barely half an hour old, and we were able to follow the movements of the Thylacine, observing how it had emerged from a nearby gully to move through foliage to the muddy shoreline, and walk along it for some metres, before stopping to drink at the waters edge, then return the way it had come. The Tasmanian Tiger is to Australia what Sasquatch is to North Americaa creature that has often been sighted but never actually corralled, by deluded amateurs. Neil Waters released a video last week teasing fans about the photos which he claimed were proof the extinct animals were still alive. The discovery of the carcase in the area of Eucla, and my observation of the live specimen, convinces me that the animal still exists on the mainland of Australia.". Register, Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. For a few seconds it stood there in the glare of the headlights before running off the road into the dense scrub, towards nearby Grose Valley. The database currently contains 11,166 species and subspecies (as of January 2023). Passing the Titania Motel [Oberon] sign at the Oberon turnoff, he spotted an animal with black body stripes the size of a large dog, as it ran across the Jenolan road from left to right into bush. "'There's nothing there that's concrete.'". Suddenly a striped-bodied dog-like animal strode across the track just ahead of them then ran off out of sight. Mr Waters says the head is rather broad for a pademelon. Another report given to Samantha came from a woman called Gail who worked at Durrumbul preschool and who had seen one crawl from beneath the preschool building and walk in a hopping way. ", Source:Anonymous. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. "Good description given, bounded into bush," the report states. ", "Pete, of Ocean Shores, was recently talking to his neighbour, Steve, who also has a farm at Wooyung directly adjacent the caravan park. An Ambulance officer related this story to a colleague sometime after 1998. The animal was growling aggressively at this time. Following this animal were 3 smaller identical animals. It looked like a cross between a dog and a kangaroo. Local naturalists were convinced from the general description, that the mystery carnivore was a Thylacine. According to CNN, an official document . Newcastle Herald, 2 March. READ MORE: What can prove Tassie tigers are alive. CNN . It then ran off under a barb wire fence to disappear into the regrowth vegetation.". Had it found its way across country, movingat night, from the Medlow Bath-Grose Valley region, keeping to the water catchment scrub intoKatoomba, or else along the Megalong Valley cliffs side, avoiding houses to reach the area it wasseen in? They checked them every few days also. (2017). It had a large head with golden eyes and widely separated rounded ears. ", "A friend, Haley, told them that around about 1996 she had observed a large cat-like creature with a plain coloured body and a banded furred tail leap across Coopers Creek behind Durrumbul north of Mullumbimby in northeastern NSW. It was not a wild dog nor kangaroo". The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. The stone missed its mark and the animal, looking up, saw the people and ran at great speed up the slope with a very unusual gait. The animal had been walking across the highway (usually quiet thereabouts on a weeknight) when we saw it, forcing us to brake quickly. Share your thoughts in the comments below or vote in our poll above, To join the conversation, please The tigers, or thylacines, were. Until recently, the last confirmed dodo sighting on its home island of Mauritius was made in 1662, but a 2003 estimate by David Roberts and Andrew Solow placed the extinction of the bird around 1690. Source:Hunt, Elle. It was about 18 kg, fawn coloured short dense fur. There were body stripesextending barrel-wise from the mid-back to the tail rump. I was on my way to work at the time, heading for Glenbrook Railway Station and had no time to pursue it, when it ran off holding its prey in its mouth. I looked it up on the internet and it did look like the pictures of thylacines but with no stripes. We all agreed, the animal looked like a Tasmanian Tiger, body stripes and all, and about the size of a large dog. His teenage son has since set up a large live animal trap in an attempt to capture it. Fortean Times 25: 36. Being an expert on wildlife identification he was positive that it was a thylacine. At worst, it couldnt have been any more than 10 meters from me as it went tearing past, so I got a great view of it front on and in profile, and I tell you, it was one of the oddest creatures Ive ever seen! We are still seeking to verify more recent sightings. (2022). This is only to make it easier for the reader to access these reports, which would otherwise be spread over many websites and other mediums (e.g. Canton, Michigan: Visible Ink Press. I have rung and reported this to my local veterinarian.". A friend, Eric, told them that he had seen the same kind of animal cross the road in front of his car near Wooyung and although he applied the breaks he hit the animal. According to Mr Pereira the animals body fur was a light brown colour with dark stripes along its body and it had a long thin strait tail which it did not wag.". The following short blog post was posted to the A.C.R.O. It looked just like that". "It won't be much longer because we're very close to getting irrefutable proof the animal is still here," he said. The strange animal had a huge jaw that opened to an extent, greater than the dog, and it gave forth with a bizarre cry unlike anything that they had heard before. It had the strangest tailvery long, like a broom pole. Some years later he saw it again at the same time and place & then his wife saw it in similar circumstances near their house. Tasmanian tigers grew to between 39 and 51 inches, with a 20-inch tail. ", "During September 1983, I organised a major search for evidence of living Thylacines in the Wollongambie Wilderness, east of Lithgow. The film was recently colorized by Composite Films in Paris. 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. We all believed we had seen a Tasmanian Tiger. As we passed thick roadside scrub, an animal almost the size of a full grown Alsatian dog, with fawn-coloured body fur and a row of blackish body stripes, ran across the highway in front of the car. It looked, then lopped off into the cliff side of the road. From Mount Gambier or Tantanoola to the Coorong, South Australia is also a good place to find them. It didnt run. The following quote is taken from a book, and does not include any direct quotes from the witness: "Among those who say they have seen thylacines in the mountainous wilderness of the Namadgi-Kosciusco National Park along the New South Wales-Victorian border is ranger Peter Simon, who saw one for several seconds in broad daylight in 1982, from a distance of 100 feet." Its fur was very short, about 15 mm long, of a greyish to light brown colour and was not at all mangy. The headlights provided us with a good look at the creature. Neil Waters released a video last week teasing fans about the photos which he claimed were proof the extinct animals were still alive. This was apparently the meal of the animal I had just seen. Yet, when I went to the Lithgow Police Station to report my sighting, all they did was laugh at me and said I was crazy", Author?. Luckily, we were too busy to follow it up, but this animal is definitely at home on our 40 acres. Zabloc saw an animal near the Minyon Falls turnoff on Repentance Creek Road that could have been a Thylacine. In December 2006 at 9.30 a.m. she again saw the same animal with three young cubs chasing and playing together on the road. It had a very unusual manner of walking quite unlike a dog. These tracks were at least several hours old. ["Two animals of the hyena kind"]. Im not sure if this is a characteristic of the Thylacine. It was illuminated by the headlights of my car approximately 20 m in front of me. It was grey/brown with a lighter underside, especially under the chin. Roger Hardy also informed me that in the Mount Mondilla area are deep gorges. After looking at the cars headlights, it suddenly ran off into the bush.". These were mostly reported by motorists.". The swamp is surrounded by dense scrub at the foot of a deep gully encased by steep cliffs. It stood there looking towards my vehicle as I stopped to see if I could get a good look at it. As we approached the turnoff to Evans Lookout, and on the corner of the local city council water catchment fence [left side of road going south] which encloses a vast area of scrubland, we saw in the glare of the cars headlights a strange animal. ", "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. He stated that it didnt look like some unusual hybrid but a species of carnivorous marsupial. Its fur was a tan colour, and the body stripes were blacky-brown. To say I was astonished would be an understatement. A couple were spotlighting near Torington, when they saw three thylacines. I kept trying to place itfox-like face but too large and wrong body shape. I hoped to find some specific characteristics from the footprints, but the sandy soil did not show them up; they were of the size of a medium-sized dog's imprint. Tasmanian tigers were 39 to 51 inches (100 to 130 centimeters) long, and the tail added 20 to 26 inches (50 to 65 cm) to its length. [The Thylacine was surely a male, females beingmore thickset - RG]. ", "February 2006, Brunswick Heads; Pacific Highway near the Mullumbimby turnoff, Walter saw a dead thylacine-like animal, with a distinctive long straight tail and stripes along the body, lying on the roadside, a victim of a car strike. Whatever it was it most certainly was neither a dog nor a dingo. It must be the boofiest pademelon head around, he says. "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. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. [reprint of an article in a previous edition (2016) of the same newsletter]. She stated Im an artist and I paint native animals and the gait of this animal meant that it was a marsupial, not a dog or a cat. It ran almost 1ft off the ground on all fours. ", Source:http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/guestbook.html, "In 1977 Mike said he saw a similar animal in Hartley Valley around 9pm one evening while driving to work. The striped-bodied animal was too large to have been anything else. The back and the hind legs looked more like a cat, its tan-coloured thick fur had an orange tinge in the sunlight and it had dark stripes across its back. All I thought at the time was, what is this? The creature had escaped into scrubland which extends eastward to a gully which drops down into the Grose Valley-where sightings of Thylacine-type animals continue to be reported by campers and bushwalkers to the present day. The back legs were also shorter than the front ones. It looked to be Alsatian dog-sized and he saw the familiar dark body stripes of a Thylacine. I wondered through my work day trying to figure out what the hell I had just sighted, and next day I went round to the local National Parks office to ask about it. It was neither dog, nor dingo, nor wolf, and certainly not a fox. Mr Millar said he had seen old pictures of the Tasmanian Tiger, which is believed to be extinct, but the animal he saw was smaller and did not have stripes on its body.". ", Source:http://acro-research.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/possible-thylacine-or-big-cat-sighting.html?m=1, "2000, Mahers Lane, Terranora; Don saw a long thin dog-like animal with stripes across its back & the base of its long thin tail in the evening as he drove down the road from his home through farmland. It was about 1 metre high and 2 and half metres long with high haunches at the back of the body. Steve mentioned to Pete that he and his family have seen thylacines on his farm on occasions. Efforts to track the animal or animals down were made, it is said but all failed due to the general inaccessibility of the forest country." It ran off into the vegetation adjacent the road.". Its body looked roundish and the head appeared out of proportion to the body with massive jaws.". Im dead-set sure the damn thing was not a fox, dingo or dog and Im positive about the zebra-like stripes down the back. It is almost legendary in its native land, and although purportedly extinct, there have been numerous sightings, photographs, and video footage put forward over the years that . Rex Gilroy believes so. It was trotting quickly with a stiff legged gait. Over the years we have kept the location of the swamp and gully a closely guarded secret, to give these marsupials an opportunity to increase their numbers, and keep away unwanted human interference. Now, a newly released government document has revealed sightings have been reported as recently as two months ago. The shape of the head, legs and body was unmistakable. Her father realized that this was some unknown creature that they had never seen before. The location was 40 miles south of Singleton on the Putty Road. The time was around midnight as they left the Country Club road into Cook Road, then turned into Banksia Road on their way home. Exploring animal welfare, animal care, and the human-animal bond. The time was approximately 6.15 - 6.30 am and the sun had been up for about 30 minutes. It looked like a female lion, but it had stripes on the flank and stripes on the tail. Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops. Im certain this animal was a Thylacine! A Tasmanian tiger enthusiast has claimed to have captured photographic evidence of the extinct animal and possible "proof" of breeding. Then it just loped off the road into the yardbetween the two properties. The stripes were, she said, wider at the top and narrowed to a point and extended, The animal turned to look at the women in the car. The guy on duty looked at me as if I was some sort of crank who had just reported a Martian, but at least gave me a book to leaf through to see if I could recognize the species. As we were driving towards Rosebank, I saw an animal about the size of a whippet dash across a grassy slope. ", "2003, Byron Bay on the coastal road to Ballina 2ks past the Lennox Head turnoff; Doof daddy contacted the ABC radio station to say that about 5 years ago in 2003 he was returning to Byron Bay from Ballina along the coastal road after work in the early hours of the morning. The tail was thickly furred. In the few seconds before the animal dashed off the road into the darkness of the catchment scrub, we were able to get a good look at it. ", "September, 2005, 7am, Billinudgel Nature Reserve; on the trail that runs parallel to the beach several hundred metres north of the central trail entrance into the reserve. A Victoria farmer, Peter Groves, made the news after allegedly spotting a Thylacine while walking near Clifton Springs on January 4, 2019. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images If you haven't heard of the. Generally, although dog-like, it was not Canid, because of the structure of the hind part of the body. ", "2005, South Golden Beach, Kolora Way; Lyndel observed a thylacine-like animal without stripes.". Its physical appearance matched that of stuffed specimen's preserved in government museums.". There is a maze of crevices and caverns in which any animal could live unseen, and it was into this gully that the tiger tracks led. I wish Id gone back to sit, wait and watch just to cure my curiosity. All the patients I mentioned it to were not surprised. The Thylacinidae family was a diverse group of approximately ten different species of dog-like, carnivorous marsupials. *It's body was longer & out of proportion than all other animals. (2022). (Thylacinus cynocephalus)", Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20200216184608/https://www.angelfire.com/oz/thylacine/. Neuroglia-The Alternative Model of the Brain, NGS, Sanger & PacBio sequencing in Antibody Drug Discovery, Avian influenza: common questions and answers regarding transmission to mammals, You Really Should Talk to Your Plants Especially If Youre a Woman, Biological Crop Steering the Next Step in Controlled Cultivation. Newcastle Herald, 2 March. What were probably the same pair were seen by Winmalee residents moving about in scrub behind St Columba's College. The dog and the people chased the animal into a large hollow log where it crouched to stare at them. The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the Thylacine, has been presumed extinct since 1936 . Yet how did the animal get where it was seen? The length of the animal was something like 5ft from nose to tail tip. (1811). I was driving down Bruce Road at Glenbrook, when at a spot 20 yards from the location of my previous [January 1983] sighting, I saw either the same animal or another, eating some small animal, perhaps a possum, on the roadside.

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