Since then, many researchers have been keen to de-extinct the thylacine. Join the conversation, you are commenting as. Two words showed something was wrong with the system, After centuries of Murdaugh rule in the Deep South, the family's power ends with a life sentence for murder, Flooding in southern Malaysia forces 40,000 people to flee homes, With Prince Andrew's sweetheart mansion rental ending, King Charles offers compromise that shocks his son, Storms threaten north-east United States after tearing through the south, leaving 10 dead. These are just three of more than 1,200 alleged thylacine sightings reported between 1910 and 2019 in Tasmania that have been collated and analyzed by Barry Brook, a mammal ecologist at the University of Tasmania, and colleagues to create the TasmanianThylacineSighting Records Database, which they used to estimate an extinction date for the thylacine. "I know what they are and so do a few independent expert witnesses," he said. Areas such as Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park and the broader Wilderness World Heritage Area are extremely inaccessible, and Brook says it is plausible a few individuals could be there without being detected. The most recent sighting of the extinct thylacine Tasmanian tiger has been debunked. Hes written for TV shows such as "The Tonight Show", "Politically Incorrect" and an award-winning childrens program. Whatever the cause, thylacines became restricted to Tasmania (which was never populated by dingoes), where they mostly inhabited woodland and grassland habitats. Mooney sent CNET a six-page assessment of the four photos presented in Waters' video on Monday. Archaeological data suggests dingoes came to Australia between 3,500 and 12,000 years ago, while thylacines have been present on the continent for much longer. //]]> There are some very telltale signs here that this is everything but a pademelon.. . document.links = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. In a statement to SBS this afternoon, TMAG confirmed that Nick Mooney assessed the images and concluded that the photos are unlikely to be thylacines, and are most likely Tasmanian pademelons. Waters who did not return multiple requests for comment released the photos as part of a 19 minute video, urging viewers to make up their own mind. In a subsequent interview with News.com.au, he said that the response to his photos by expert analysts gave him more fire in my belly to prove them wrong., It wont be much longer, Waters said. The likely extinction date was sometime between 1936 and 1943, he wrote, with the most optimistic scenario suggesting it did not persist beyond the 1960s. We've done it.". Now he has the best job in the world, telling stories about space, the planet, climate change and the people working at the frontiers of human knowledge. By signing up, you agree to Pedestrian Group's Terms of Service and consent to our Privacy Policy. } The experts poured cold water on the thylacine claims, and said that the video . 9-4-2022 Possible live thylacine filmed in South Australia 8-24-2022 Tasmanian tiger footage remastered in 4k color 9-7-2021 Photographs of alleged live thylacines released 3-1-2021 There are 335 marsupial species currently in existence today, with some 70 per cent of those species native to Australasia. for (var t=0; t Wellington Club Membership Fees, Valerie Bertinelli Brother Drew, Amtrak To Yankee Stadium, Articles T