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'Sightings' of Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Prompt Search in Queensland (theguardian.com)
Elle Hunt, writing for The Guardian: "Plausible" possible sightings of a Tasmanian tiger in northern Queensland have prompted scientists to undertake a search for the species thought to have died out more than 80 years ago. The last thylacine is thought to have died in Hobart zoo in 1936, and it is widely believed to have become extinct on mainland Australia at least 2,000 years ago. But sightings of large, dog-like animals that are neither dingoes nor foxes have persisted over the decades, despite widespread scepticism. Recent eyewitness accounts of potential thylacines in far north Queensland have spurred scientists from James Cook University to launch a search for the animal long considered extinct. Professor Bill Laurance said he had spoken at length to two people about animals they had seen in Cape York peninsula that could potentially be thylacines, and that they had given plausible and detailed descriptions.
"'Sightings' of Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Prompt Search in Queensland "
Shouldn't that be: Sightings of "Extinct" Tasmanian Tiger Prompt Search in Queensland ?
I was fishing for bass in a jon boat when we saw it 20 yards away. Fortunately we managed to get away - I thought my buddy Elvis Presley was going to have a heart attack.
BTW people have been asking about Elvis. He's become pretty religious these days, having seen the crop circles.
Let's get Willem Dafoe on this straight away! (obscure movie ref?)
"In the hills we almost captured one for research, but a damned bigfoot came along and scared it away."
Table-ized A.I.
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I saw Melania and her beau in Mew York this weekend !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Newfangled critter gets a fancy emoticon command prompt, and the rest of us are stuck with dollar signs or angle prompts.
Table-ized A.I.
which way did he go? which way did he go?
Increases the number of tourists. Free publicity in newsmedia.
Even if they find the animal, it will be a big thing.
Win, win, either way.
More food for the drop bears...
Since there's not a lot to this story, I'll go ahead on a tangent and recommend a book called "Song of the Dodo." It's an excellent book about extinction (and evolution, and biological diversity). There's a section in it about the thylacine.
Highly recommended, definitely up there on my list of science books.
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Now this guy http://www.truthinsideofyou.or... will be after it
The article doesn't mention it, but the Tasmanian Tiger is a marsupial. It is essentially a dog (wolf) that carries its young in a pouch. Most mammals in Australia were marsupials but many became extinct after the Australian Aborigines discovered the continent.
Marsupials evolved pouches to deal with the extreme climate and unreliable vegetation in Australia. A mother will remove and discard her young if the available food is not sufficient for both. Pregnant mammals with long gestation cycles don't have that luxury...
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
Thought we were still looking for that leprechaun?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39423053
And I bet there are more folk wandering around in Thailand to rig cameras,unlike most of Aus, kiwi land,tasmania etc etc..
ok
Maybe a dingo ate your baby thylacine!
Take it with a MASSIVE grain of salt, Tassie tiger spotting's are like bigfoot sightings, never any quality camera or video footage (despite us living in an age when just about every man woman and child has a camera device on them). Every year we hear about sightings all through Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia and Occasionally Queensland, yet despite this and a constant stream of trackers and experts no one has found a living or dead one (i.e. non fossilised remains). It would be nice if they still existed but it is far more likely they are gone, they were easily tracked and hunted when they existed.
It's 2017. Everyone over the age of 6 carries a camera. Why are you bothering to listen to "eyewitness" accounts instead of just asking for photographs / videos?
If they Tasmanian Tiger exists, someone with a cell phone has probably seen it. Lack of photos = immediately creates suspicion for any claimed eyewitness.
If the "eyewitness" is an old technophobe/luddite, give them a manual camera and ask for photos.
We cannot always prove past crimes when the subject and the persons killed are extinct.
I don't believe we should bring everything back, but Thiocene had a unique place in the evolution of other species, and the other species, in some instances, are no longer in control.
I am not advocating we bring back T-Rex, but Thiocene was removed very recently, and there are out-of-control species like mice and rats that Thiocene kept in control for millions of years. Case in point: problems in Australia and New Zealand. So lets give a fuck for once and see if Thiocene is still a viable species to have in control of theMAMALS in the Outback introduced in the last 400 years.
If they aren't viable, then fuck em. But if they are! I'd rather have them doing the special weeding for us than sinking billions into flawed projects that we do chemically and with other severe repercussions we cannot even guess about.
Fucking humans. We usually only hate gigantism. But the Thiocene was a little ugly fucker. If we get a chance, lets see what it can do.
As much as I'd love to think this could be real, we've seen the Thylacine sighting stories rolled out by the media on slow news days regularly for the last 30 years at least. They always seem to find the same "alternative lifestyle" looking person to front a camera and claim they've seen a tiger. It's never come to anything, and this time it's 3000km from their last sighted habitat. 80 years and three thousand kilometres between sightings? I really doubt it.
L8r.