Scientists hunt for the 'extinct' Tasmanian tiger

[piranhaman00]

I love this topic and have done a lot of reading on it. I do think they there very well may be some left in the Tasmanian forests. I know that the last confirmed living one was in 1936, but we have reports of verified tracks from the late 1970's, showing that they at least existed until then.


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I'm in the same boat. I think they could still be alive somewhere remote. I'm on mobile so it's hard to put YouTube vids up but the video of the one running across the road is awesome. It's not proved thylacine but looks awfully like one! That's old but hope still up

Edit-the movie is called the hunter. It's pretty neat.

And I finally rea the article and 300 left the guy estimates!? Wow hopefully they find one and get the population back


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[David R]

Its certainly sad. I hope there are thylacine left, and it doesn't seem entirely impossible. While I doubt there are moa left, I could imagine something small like thylacine surviving in remote areas. Sort of like the ivory-billed woodpecker.

You're right there is far higher chance of the tigers remaining alive in some isolated location than moa, I think NZers just like jumping on the bandwagon and trying to 1-up Australia...

 

[cmsbthebest]

Also, they have viable Tasmanian tiger DNA and are trying to clone it, with a Tasmanian devil being the surrogate mother