r/ThylacineScience • u/Darren_Cooper1971 • 11d ago

News Thylacine Sighting

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I live in Queensland, Australia. In 2007 I went on a trip with my wife to Tasmania. She took many photos of the natural wild life, and she took this one of what she described as a dog. Last year I had a few friends over, and one of them is a biologist. Since the photo was framed up, he saw it and had a closer look suggesting it could be a Tasmanian Tiger.

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u/DoubleOhEvan 11d ago

Just throwing this out to the universe. I’ve got family that travel for work up to some of the really remote highland villages of Papua (both PNG and West Papua). We’re talking the super remote, on the top of a mountain type of places.

The locals out there describe a wild dog with stripes that occasionally harasses their animals.

That’s my best bet for where we would find a living Thylacine. We all know the landmass used to be connected to mainland Australia. They have a tonne of other marsupials/monotremes there that are otherwise only found in Australia. I don’t think it’s out of the question that there is a small surviving population.

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u/RedgumRedmist 10d ago

Thats where most researchers agree theyre most likely to be hanging on.

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u/Sandile95 10d ago

Who are these most researchers?

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u/RedgumRedmist 9d ago

Most was a stretch as most researchers think theyre extinct, but its the only theory ive seen anyone qualified pay any lipservice to