Thylacine, aka Tasmanian Tiger

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"We have cross-checked the descriptions we received of eyeshine colour, body size and shape, animal behavior, and other attributes, and these are inconsistent with known attributes of other large-bodied species in north Queensland such as dingoes, wild dogs or feral pigs.”

If they want to find wild dogs or feral pigs they should start the hunt in Newcastle.
 
Amazing, I always thought it was still out there - there are too many sightings. The late, great Steve Irwin was convinced it wasn't gone too.
 
Don't know much about geography, or zoology, but how the Fcuk does a striped dog get from Tasmania to Queensland?

Remember reading a bit about them a few years back, when there was talk about cloning one. Quite a sad tale about the last remaining one in captivity, apparently his keeper went home and forgot to open his night cage, poor sod died of exposure. That was 80 years ago, they must be bloody good at playing hide and seek
 
maghater said:
Don't know much about geography, or zoology, but how the Fcuk does a striped dog get from Tasmania to Queensland?

Remember reading a bit about them a few years back, when there was talk about cloning one. Quite a sad tale about the last remaining one in captivity, apparently his keeper went home and forgot to open his night cage, poor sod died of exposure. That was 80 years ago, they must be bloody good at playing hide and seek
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They were originally found throughout Australia. It had been thought they were wiped out on the mainland, leaving Tasmania as their final refuge at the beginning of the 20th Century. If they're to be found anywhere on the mainland, it'll be on the Cape York Peninsula. Prime habitat, still largely unexplored.

It's not a dog, btw. It's a marsupial. An amazing example of convergent evolution.
 
Monty Pigeon said:
They were originally found throughout Australia. It had been thought they were wiped out on the mainland, leaving Tasmania as their final refuge at the beginning of the 20th Century. If they're to be found anywhere on the mainland, it'll be on the Cape York Peninsula. Prime habitat, still largely unexplored.

It's not a dog, btw. It's a marsupial. An amazing example of convergent evolution.
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fingers crossed then
 
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