", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Joan saw what looked like a thylacine. Source:Hunt, Elle. *It had strong powerful hind legs*smaller front legs*A long stiff tail that pointed straight out. It was about the size of a dingo but had a long staight tail with distinctive stripes down its back & sides. John was adamant that they were not foxes, dogs or dingos all of which he is very familiar with after spending 20 years at Lakes Entrance in eastern Victoria. Register, Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. ", "A week later, on Sunday 10th April we returned to Mr Turners property after he phoned us, to say that what might have been the same animal had returned the night before, leaving chew and scratch marks on his fowl house door, and more tracks around the area of the dam. It was grey/brown with a lighter underside, especially under the chin. My mother in the passenger seat (who grew up in B/Hill) could only splutter "what is that?!" Despite the dog-like animal, native to Australia seemingly disappearing all those years ago, there have been a number of sightings of the animal over recent years. I wondered through my work day trying to figure out what the hell I had just sighted, and next day I went round to the local National Parks office to ask about it. She was in good condition, no ribs showing. "'There's nothing there that's concrete.'". ", "2005, South Golden Beach, Kolora Way; Lyndel observed a thylacine-like animal without stripes.". (15 to 30 kilograms), according to. He never saw the animal again even though he drove those same roads for another 2 years. My brothers wife and I were in the front. "Mr Gordon Pereira [mentioned earlier] was puzzled as to what he could do about the mysterious dog-like animal that had been making repeated attacks on his chickens at his Wentworth Falls property during June 1972. They include international dog and cat show judges, vets and wildlife experts, most of them choosing to stay anonymous. The bands were about 2 cm wide & about 6 cm apart. However, I did get time to study the creature. Five vets all agree it looks like a four-legged animal and not a macropod that hops, Mr Waters says. However, in 1936, the last known Tasmanian Tiger died, and the Thylacine was considered extinct. On hearing from Mr Heath of some of the Thylacine sightings he had been told about, an academic at a Queensland . All I thought at the time was, what is this? It had a sharp face, full ears, a hard erect rather round body, high in the shoulders, tall lean thin legs, long thin hard looking tail and the faintest glimpse of darker stripes around the body.". At this point they all saw, barely 4 metres away, a striped-backed animal, standing beneath a street light. The stone missed its mark and the animal, looking up, saw the people and ran at great speed up the slope with a very unusual gait. These superficially resembled those of a dog, but displayed marsupial features. Century-old footage of the last known Tasmanian tiger in captivity has been brought to life by colourisation, offering a tantalising glimpse of the now-extinct creature. near the narrowest point of Narrow Neck, which is used by so many other marsupials. Far longer than any dogs tail & kinda looked like a kangaroo's tail. "On Sunday 15th June 2003, about 8.30pm to 845pm, Robyn Simon was driving with a friend,Rebecca Jackson, on Acacia Street past Katoomba Golf Course, towards its junction with Cliff Drive. The Tasmanian tiger, a large striped carnivore, is believed to have gone extinct over 80 years ago - but newly released Australian government documents show sightings have been reported . But, he adds, "society will not protect an animal it thinks is extinct. Rod and I later staked out the site overnight with cameras, in the hope of capturing a tiger on film as it came to drink at the swamp, but failed to see any. In 1978 one friday I had done a days work, come home packed the car, driven 60 km into the Barringtons, set up camp, drank 2 cans of beer, it was on the darker side of dusk when i went to have a close look at a tree just out side the head light beam of my car when I heard a noise, I turned my head and about 4 feet (1.3 m) from me in the light beam of my car a tasie tiger walked past me.". It came from the left hand side up the slope, crossed the road & then leapt up the bank. His teenage son has since set up a large live animal trap in an attempt to capture it. One witness, ranger Peter Simon. The Tasmanian Tiger was in fact a marsupial rather than a big cat, and its proper name is the thylacine. [a pack of thylacine-like animals seen on the Vic/NSW border in 1977]. They checked them every few days also. I thought it looked a silver colour but it was hard to tell because it was raining.", "11th April 2006, 12.30 a.m. Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; Ron was driving west towards the highway and saw what looked like a thylacine as it walked along the northern side of the road. (1968). Although it could possibly be a fox or bird, when I looked up the sound a thylacine makes, it was identical to one we found on YouTube. He stated it had a tail like a roo, but not touching the ground. This odd creature obviously seemed to reside in the valley we had found it in and the co-ordinates I gave specified exactly how to find it, yet they couldn't give a damn! The last Thylacine The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. Newcastle Herald, 8 March. According to Robyn, the animal was as large as a big Labrador dog, moving with a slinkyloping movement, somewhat like a cat. 198-208], "1982, Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, Greys Lane, Tyagarah, Uki and Terania Creek; Rabbit observed 5 times at 5 different locations as above, a thylacine-like animal with a striped rump, always around 4 a.m. when driving before first light on his delivery rounds. [chapter title: Thylacines, pp. ", "2004, Clothiers Creek Road, Cabarita; Joslyn, of Kingscliff, saw a thylacine on Clothiers Creek Road at 9.30 am as she was coming into Cabarita. Since then, no conclusive evidence has emerged to suggest that Tasmanian tigers still exist in the wild, and the species was declared officially extinct in 1986, the Tasmanian Government's. He noticed the ears were rounded and that it stood about 1/2m high, its mouth was open. I have no doubt about what I saw. By this time our car was but a few feet from the animal which just stood there staring at our vehicle, mesmerised by the headlights' glare. Mr George Skinner, a maintenance painter who was working at Jenolan Caves back in the early 1980s, once told this author that he was driving home from work around 5pm one evening in March 1982. He said the creature had at least 19 black body stripes, extending from mid-back to tail-rump and was about 1.52 metres long from nose to tail-tip. Reports from other states and countries can be accessedhere. The animal was going for a gully that stands on the eastern side of the highway.". Most data was collected from old material. Yet how did the animal get where it was seen? Its body was greyish-brown and when it got up we observed that it's hindquarters appeared "tucked in" and were marked with dark stripes. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. ", "16th November, 1997, Sunday, 7-30 a.m. at Lennox Head; between Seven Mile Beach and Lake Ainsworth, near Camp Drew, Paul and his partner observed from their car, only 1 metre away, a dog-sized animal with black stripes down its back and rump with one stripe across the base of the tail. ", "15th January 2003, 9.30 am, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Mailman Peter drove right up to a strange looking animal standing on an earth bank on the southern section of Stock Route Road, just behind Billinudgel. Lopping once again and this time I was closer and still it made no sudden movement like it wasnt scared of my car. ", "During 1968 an old man told locals around Winmalee north of Springwood, that he had seen two Thylacines emerge together from a gully thereabouts that leads into the Grose Valley. Then it just loped off the road into the yard, Robyn noticed the tail itself was 2ft [61 cm] in length. My brother was asleep in the back. Thylacine hunter Michael Moss maintains that the Tas tiger may still roam the mainland, and encourages people to keep looking. He described it as the size of a greyhound with distinctive brown stripes on its back He saw it eating some meat by the side of the road and got a a good look at it before it ran off. Now plans are underfoot to bring back this thylacine and reintroduce it to Tassie. She seemed extremely curious-cautious. The dog rushed in to attack the animal & Mark, the farm owner and several other workers were surprised to see the dog backing out of the shed with an animal almost as large covered with brown stripes across its back and a thick, stiff, kangaroo-like tail. ", "In March 1973 an animal answering to the description of the Thylacine was claimed by a Mrs Cummins to have raided her fowl yard at Wentworth Falls. Its body fur was a mousy-brown colour with greyish stripes extending barrel-wise along the body. It's Rob here, I just had another sighting of a Tasmanian Tiger on Friday 24th Jan 2020. Ive shot and skinned roos and foxes before so I have had experience with them up in Armidale. The animal seen on video is about a metre in length and about 50cm tall, which would be. "It is almost extinct, but not quite. To the west of here, outside Capertee, at least two of these elusive forest-dwellers have been claimed seen by campers on separate occasions.". Numbats are closely related to the extinct Tasmanian Tiger. Later, back in Canberra, I came across an illustration of the Tasmanian Tiger, and immediately recognised it as the animal I had observed on my trip. It was about 5ft [1.53m] in length from head to tail, which, was stiff with no point. Then she found that the woman that worked in the store had recently observed two of the animals chasing and killing a swamp wallaby near her home just a few kms up the valley. Luckily, we were too busy to follow it up, but this animal is definitely at home on our 40 acres. Naturalist/Cryptozoologist Gary Opit's own thylacine sighting: "3rd February 2007, Jones Road, Yelgun; just after dark, Gary Opit watched, for about 5 minutes, an unidentifiable carnivorous marsupial that measured approximately 1.75 m in length and about .75 m in height standing in the middle of Jones Road, Yelgun, adjacent the Billinudgel Nature Reserve. The snout & the tail were held straight & the round ears were cocked up. The length of the animal was something like 5ft from nose to tail tip. These were only half-an-hour old and led deep into dense forest. The back legs were also shorter than the front ones. Im certain this animal was a Thylacine! "Back in 1960 Mr Gordon Pereira [of whom more will be said anon] was a NSW Government Railways station assistant, driving his car home from work at Medlow Bath railway station about 10pm when, 1 miles east of the [since demolished] Caltex depot on Whipcord Hill, on the Great Western Highway, an animal which he described as being about greyhound size with a large head, was caught in his headlights as it ran across the highway from the scrubland on the western [Megalong Valley] side to the railway lines, disappearing within seconds. Michael noticed that it had a distinct waddle of the back legs as it walked and he watched it turn away from him and saw that it had a white band at the end of the tail with a black tip. In Tasmania, the Thylacine was most predominant along the north and east coast, and in the midland plains region. I was 2-3 metres from it for several minutes. There were nine of us in all, and about to sleep when, to our utter astonishment, a creature boldly emerged from bushes and walked up to our campfire remains. Both animals disappeared within seconds into the rainforest.". "A STRANGE animal resembling a Tasmanian tiger has a NSW farmer scratching his head. Efforts to track the animal or animals down were made, it is said but all failed due to the general inaccessibility of the forest country." ", "1997, Mt Warning; Heidi described her brothers observation of a thylacine. I ran outside to find my cat facing off with a dog-like creature 4 times its size. He only saw the Thylacine twice during the same week, approximately 3 years after he began working in those ranges. It had a long, cat-like tail and features reminiscent of a fox or wolf. We came to the Pilliga. I had a magnificent view of it head on face to face sitting in the middle of the road not much more than 15 feet away. I went back to England shortly afterwards but on my recent return to Australia the article by Samela Harris on the sightings of the thylacien and the resulting correspondence makes me wonder whether what we saw could have been a marsupial tiger or wolf. It is obvious a colony of six to eight of these creatures exists in the gully. I tried to explain it to people for years but couldn't. My friend who was with me describes it as follows, it looked like a kangaroo but it walked rather than hopped. Although. A large excerpt, possibly the entirety of the paper, is given at the Thylacine Museum website: "During the CSIRO Entomological Expedition, November 1949, I had the good fortune of seeing the animal on the route from Bourke to Wanaaring, in an uninhabited area a few miles past the Warrego Rivers, where I was collecting on the right-hand side of the road, only a few yards from the road. I decided that this was not a wallaby but, from its distinctive body shape, a carnivorous marsupial. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Peter, principal of Main Arm School saw what looked to him very much like a thylacine. The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. It was an extraordinary experience, being so close to this animal. ", "6th February 2006, Mullumbimby, Left Bank Road, Sunday morning, 6:10 am; Alisha and her mother were going to the market and when they pulled out of Yankee Creek Road and went round the bend they saw a strange animal that was too big to be a cat and that was not a dog or a fox and it had stripes across the back, rounded ears & a long stiff tail.". The highly anticipated photos of a living Tasmania tiger family have been released and the man who captured them says hes absolutely confident at least one is a thylacine. Its physical appearance matched that of stuffed specimens preserved in government museums. Unlike most marsupials, the males also had an abdominal, back-opening pouch. ", Source:http://campbelltown-library.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-minto-monster.html. I know it's a Thylacine," Richardson said. Nearby we found a pile of day-old excrement containing pig bristles and crushed pig bone. Its ears were not as big as a roo or a fox. ", "September, 2005, 7am, Billinudgel Nature Reserve; on the trail that runs parallel to the beach several hundred metres north of the central trail entrance into the reserve. In November 2017, three investigators including Adrian Richardson, who has been hunting for the Thylacine for 26 years, captured video of what they claim is a Tasmanian tiger in Hobart. She stated that it looked funny and very skinny and moved weird-like. Againno familiar dog body language. The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, is one of Australia's most iconic species. The monster's screams, according to one local resident, were like "a woeful cough that goes on and on, like a human being on their death bed". ", His second experience occurred in January 1983, when from his bedroom window he saw what may have been the same animal seen by him the previous July, or another one, as it moved beneath a street light in the early hours of the morning. (1985). It measured 14.3 cm in length by 3c m width.". It was about 5ft from head to tail tip and up to 1 ft tall. I kept trying to place itfox-like face but too large and wrong body shape. ", "The Winter of 2022 will be remembered by Heather and I for the number of Blue Mountains bushland sightings of of Thylacines at least a dozen. One bounty hunter suggested it was a lost species of extinct Tasmanian Tiger. By the 1920s, sightings of the Tasmanian tiger in the wild had become extremely rare and in 1930, a farmer from Mawbanna named Wilf Batty shot and killed the last known wild Tasmanian tiger. According to CNN, an official document . The sighting occurred on the NSW/Vic border, and so is listed twice in the respective state databases. It was grey with dark grey mottling on its rump like bands, it had distinctive large round ears and was quite unlike a dog or fox. Each time it was in the evening, after dark, between 6pm and 8:30pm if I remember correctly. Fascinating new documents have revealed a series of reported sightings of the marsupial, which was declared extinct more than 80 years ago. "Thylacine sighting: 21/01/21 At approximately 6.00am SA time 2 days ago, a man leaving his home for work froze in awe at what he was seeing in the front part of his property in the Adelaide Hills when he saw . "Mr Turner told us that, in 1973, he was driving along the Great Western Highway from Katoomba to Blackheath late one night when, near the [now demolished] Katoomba Piggery at Bathurst Road, and opposite the railway lines bordering the water catchment, he saw in his headlights what he was certain was a Thylacine, as it ran from the railway lines across the highway in front of his car, heading in the direction of the Megalong Valley. At worst, it couldnt have been any more than 10 meters from me as it went tearing past, so I got a great view of it front on and in profile, and I tell you, it was one of the oddest creatures Ive ever seen! Source: Gilroy, Rex. We were driving at 20mph speed, when, turning a corner I saw this strange dog-like animal as did Carrol, as it emerged from bushes on the right-hand side of the road. The final thylacine was captured in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. Its tail was long and straight, resembling that of a kangaroo or wallaby. "On the night of 6th October 1982, at 8.26pm, Mr John Galluzzi was driving toward Katoomba on the Great Western Highway, when, at the bottom of Boddington Hill, Wentworth Falls, This creature appeared, cantering across the road from right to left. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. Source:Cronshaw, Damon. Mr Pereira also found a pile of excrement left by the animal. It ran off into the vegetation adjacent the road.". It must be the boofiest pademelon head around, he says. The animal was so close that he almost hit it as it reached the other side of his vehicle. Sightings of Tasmanian Tigers. The last captive tiger died on September 7, 1936 at the since-defunct Beaumaris Zoo. He described it as "clear as a day". . Awareness for the status of the Tasmanian tiger was so low that after Benjamin died, Hobart Zoo expected they would soon receive a replacement, and the death of the last Tasmanian tiger wasnt even reported in the media. We all believed we had seen a Tasmanian Tiger. In 2005, two German tourists to Tasmania, Klaus Emmerichs and Birgit Jansen claimed to have taken pictures of a live Tasmanian tiger. It moved on all four legs and had a tail similar to a wallaby. Neil Waters released a video last week teasing fans about the photos which he claimed were proof the extinct animals were still alive. The Tasmanian tiger, otherwise known as the thylacine, is a carnivorous marsupial native to Tasmania. Mr Waters says the head is rather broad for a pademelon. So it was that stealthy, whatever it was, that even the pademelons who hear one twig break and they're outta there, it didn't hear it.I've been running tours out there for seven years, but you know going out into the rainforest, you know three or four times a week and that's the only time I've seen something that I couldn't explain. It was 60 to 70 cm high and covered with short ginger-blond short hair with a narrow, small triangular-shaped head, a long thin neck, a long straight, thin tail that was as long as the animal. He said it had stripes & a sloping back. These were of a chocolaty-brown colourand not very obvious. READ MORE: What can prove Tassie tigers are alive. There is a maze of rock crevices and caverns in which any animals could live unseen, and it is into this gully that the 'tiger' tracks led. Quite suddenly the animal reared on it's hind legs, nose to the air, turned to the opposite direction than that it had been standing and raced into the vegetation at speed. 5 BEST Tasmanian Tiger Sightings Caught On VIDEO and I review them to see what I think they ACTUALLY are! It was greyhound-like, the head was like that of a kangaroo, particularly because of its kangaroo-like ears that stood straight up, the ribs were tucked up and the rump was uplifted. Source: Anonymous. ", "In 1975, one Springwood farmer reported attacks on his fowlyard by a large striped, dog-like animal, and almost shot the creature one day as it escaped over a fence with a hen in its mouth.". As they passed through Medlow Bath, and just past the Foy Avenue turnoff, which is a busy area, about 6.1 metres ahead of his vehicle, illuminated by the headlights and standing on the left of the highway near street lights, they all spotted a dog-like animal of Alsatian size. Ive been a vet nurse for 20 years. 01 of 10 It had stripes and a thin tail stuck straight out. The guy on duty looked at me as if I was some sort of crank who had just reported a Martian, but at least gave me a book to leaf through to see if I could recognize the species. It had distinctive stripes across its back & rump, which sloped down to a long kangaroo-like tail. We observed it for about 10 minutes from between 10 to 20 meters away. Im totally convinced I witnessed a Tassie tiger on the coast road between Lennox Head and Suffolk Park NSW. Fortean Times 25: 36. (Thylacinus cynocephalus)", Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20200216184608/https://www.angelfire.com/oz/thylacine/. Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts'. ", "1997, 4am, Uki; Peter described his sighting of 1997 on the Murwillumbah Road to Uki near the intersection with Mount Warning Road at 4am when he observed what at first he thought was a fox on the side of the road. Suddenly, at 5am he was woken by sounds coming from the direction of the cage, situated at the far end of his property on the edge of thick bushland. He described it to me at the time, as being not quite the same shape as a dog or dingo, fairly light brown, with stripes on its back. Its buttocks were tapered toward the tail. However, now she felt reluctant to go for walks on the road. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. It was the size of a small dingo but with an elongated, slim body and the hind quarters was more prominent. I was already out of breath as I entered the trees, and soon realised the animal had given me the slip, so I walked back to the car. Furthermore, diseases were introduced which had a significant impact on the Tasmanian tigers population. Rex's documentary on the species, starting with this sighting: "Back in May 1972 a Sydney bushwalker, Mr Noel Wright, got the surprise of his life, when a Thylacine emerged from ferns to stand momentarily on the track between Ruined Castle and Mount Solitary. After about 5 min I took off again south desperatly trying to get my head around what I had just seen 20 min south of Broken Hill!! There was very little traffic on the roads. These were only half-an-hour old and led deep into dense forest. We also found two unusual sets of tracks. (2021). While some of these tracks were indistinct amid small twig and leaf fragments, two were not, and I cast these. Apart from its size, it was greyhound-like in appearance with narrowing flanks, its body sloping downward to a long thin tail, which followed the slope of the back and seemed kangaroo-like in that it did not appear to wag. It was not a dog. He passed it and stopped the car but it had disappeared into the bush by the time he looked back. I believe the animal was heading for a gully that drops down into the Grose Valley, where other striped-bodied, dog-like animals [surely Thylacines] have been seen by people over many years. Source:Anonymous. It was not a dog sound she madenothing like it. They weighed up to 66 pounds. Zabloc saw an animal near the Minyon Falls turnoff on Repentance Creek Road that could have been a Thylacine. Towards the end of Shara Boulevard he noticed an animal walking head-on toward him, along the side of the road. The hocks were pronounced and lowit rocked back on them when it loped away. The reported sightings are contained in a document from Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE). Passing the Titania Motel [Oberon] sign at the Oberon turnoff, he spotted an animal with black body stripes the size of a large dog, as it ran across the Jenolan road from left to right into bush. I write about freedom, history, nature, hypocrisy and anything that tickles my mind. "It won't be much longer because we're very close to getting irrefutable proof the animal is still here," he said. Please note that I have taken the liberty of quoting liberally from all sources. "On the night of Tuesday 22nd February 1972 at 10.15pm, I was with a woman friend, being driven along the Great Western Highway just south of Blackheath to my home at Katoomba. It was a Tasmanian Tiger. TASMANIAN TIGER SIGHTINGS CONFIRM THEY ARE STILL ALIVE (Thylacine) Blazing Wildlife 85 subscribers Subscribe 587 47K views 3 years ago TASMANIAN TIGER SIGHTINGS PROVE THEIR EXISTENCE. The tail was long and stuck straight out behind it. The animal was a tan-caramel color with pronounced dark stripes from shoulders to rump and had a ridged "kangaroo like" tail. [The Thylacine was surely a male, females beingmore thickset - RG]. She said that its gait was awkward looking, and looked like it was loping because its front legs were shorter than its back legs, and it looked quite ungainly as it ran. When Europeans first settled, the Tasmanian tiger was rarely seen, however, they became increasingly blamed for attacks on sheep. It had the gait of a dog and it certainly wasnt a dog or feral cat. ", "2003, Byron Bay on the coastal road to Ballina 2ks past the Lennox Head turnoff; Doof daddy contacted the ABC radio station to say that about 5 years ago in 2003 he was returning to Byron Bay from Ballina along the coastal road after work in the early hours of the morning. 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