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| Tasmanian Tiger sightings are piling up in Australia-carnivorous kangaroos |
| 2017-04-04 |
| Multiple reports of Tasmanian Tiger sightings are starting to flow in from everyday citizens in Australia. Several people have recently claimed they’ve spotted the animal, which isn’t a tiger at all — and, despite looking very much like a species of dog, isn’t of canine lineage either — but a carnivorous marsupial. Spotting an interesting creature in Australia isn’t exactly a rare occurrence, but there’s one problem with these reports in particular: the Tasmanian Tiger is supposed to be extinct. The last known Tasmanian Tiger was captured in its native Australia in 1933 and lived for a few years in a zoo before dying, and its death has long been thought to be the final nail in the species’ coffin. Australians have occasionally claimed to have spotted the dog-like animals over the years, but the sightings were typically rare and attributed to nothing more than misidentification. That’s all changed now, as several “plausible sightings” are beginning to give life to the theory that the animal never actually went extinct at all. Now, scientists in Queensland, Australia, are taking action in the hopes of actually finding evidence that the Tiger is still around. If confirmed, it would be an absolutely monumental discovery, considering the animal’s history. The team plans to set up cameras in areas where reported sightings have taken place in the hopes of confirming the claims. Tasmanian Tigers look more like dogs than kangaroos. Every time I look at reconstructed dinosaur bones I think of kangaroos -- the layout looks the same to my uneducated eye. I just have visions of allosaurs and Tyrannosaurus rexes hopping across the primoridial plain as they chased stegosaurs for breakfast. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 Are they sure it's not a chupacabra? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-04-04 12:25 |
| #4 No mention of just who the "scientists in Queensland" are, but I'll bet it's Gary Opit, who has seen thylacines behind every bush at least since I met him back in the late 80's. They're all dead, Jim. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2017-04-04 09:57 |
| #3 Gaia is way more robust then enviros think. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-04 02:32 |
| #2 A million poisoned baits a year are dropped by air over the southwest of Western Australia. So my theory that they are creating a food supply for Thylacines is not that implausible. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-04-04 01:29 |
| #1 The problem is there are a lot of feral dogs in Australia from numerous breeds and some may look like Tas tigers. These reports are from the mainland, not Tasmania, where the Tigers were supposed to have died out after the arrival of the dingo, 40,000 years ago. There was a recent sighting on the outskirts of Perth. I thought at the time that the widespread poisoning of feral predators (foxes, cats, dogs) would have given them a ready supply of food (marsuptials are immune to the poison used), and allowed a residual population to expand outwards. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-04-04 01:10 |