Search ongoing for extinct Tasmanian tiger amid efforts to revive species | 60 Minutes

Thylacines - marsupials known as Tasmanian tigers - were declared extinct decades ago, but efforts to find one in the wild are thriving. Scientists are also working to bring back the species.
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[@60minutes]

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[@zxyatiywariii8]

Thanks! Subbed 👍🏽

[@benbeck1]

Love this animal, such a tragic tale. Hope its still out there or the genetic scientists can bring it back. Thanks for the good upload.

[@WarrenHolly]

How about doing a story of the yowie, yeti and sasquatch. Guaranteed blockbuster!🦍

[@teodorotaneo1688]

If i havnt heard Dr. Thor i would have believe this crap!

[@DavidWilson224]

hello from Tasmania Australia! :)

[@brycepardoe658]

I so badly want to believe these creatures still exist

[@bunyip7343]

If you have ever been to the west coast and southern coast of Tassie... that is some thick bush - there is hope that they might still exist.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Me too! The video of that last one haunts me. I rescue/rehab animals, and there's such intelligence in that captive one's eyes, makes me sad. . . I hope there are still some living free. We live not far from the International Wolf Center (they have a live video feed, for anyone interested) and although of course thylacines are not related to wolves, they have the facial expression and body language of an intelligent and curious animal who deserves their own space to roam.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

​@@bunyip7343I've always wanted to travel there. . . but I can't afford international travel. 😕

[@lanichilds2825]

Bigfoot

[@Slay_No_More]

I think it might still be around. Just a gut feeling based on nothing however.

[@sarantissporidis391]

First they hunt it to extinction, then they search for it. Makes sense.

[@maximusolivia9982]

I guess trying to correct mistake from the past. 🤷‍♂️

[@indiopeninsulares6723]

I think the locals hunted it until it goes extinct not the outside world

[@sarantissporidis391]

@@indiopeninsulares6723 I was referring to the locals. I have never shot a thylacine.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Tbf, the people who are searching for thylacines now, are hoping to help save the species (if they still exist). They aren't the same people who destroyed the species. Not all humans are evil. If a rabid dog kills a child, my Service Dog isn't to blame just because both are the same species.

[@maximusolivia9982]

@@sarantissporidis391I bagged 4 back in the day. Had one of them stuffed. Ate the other 3

[@MattMan01]

How do you start this off by comparing the very REAL Thylacine, to a Yeti and Loch Ness Monster?

[@buxomboba]

Exactly what I was thinking... I came straight to the comments because that felt like such an off way to begin this video.

[@brianshorey]

He goes on to say that unlike other mythical creatures, this thing existed.

[@buxomboba]

@@brianshorey But that's just the thing, "unlike other mythical creatures," still implies that it is also a mythical creature...

[@brianshorey]

@@buxomboba You could actually read this either way (although the inflection tends towards your interpretation). Agreed, they should have worded it better, but they did at least make a small attempt at drawing a distinction.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

​@@brianshoreyWell said.

[@taylork3043]

Don't tell me you're gonna clone the Tas Tiger till you do. I've been hearing this news for over ten years

[@CaptCMoore]

Exactly, clone

[@da6640]

Of all the things to report on, they report on an extinct rat dog

[@lantrick]

@@da6640 UIKR IKR? this was the only thing reported on, no other news stories about anything else, for decades. shameful.

[@Skywatchers]

Ikr, they been going to clone a mammoth since I was born. Yet we have no mammoth. 😂

[@chewy99.]

@@da6640Yeah I kinda wish we had another news story other than about these things in the last 50 years.

[@TheECSH]

Taiwanese here, and i see a lot of parallels in our stories. In Taiwan, there also used to exist a predator, the clouded leopard. It was the "soul" of the forest and had significant roles in the history of the indigenous tribes. It was driven to extinction by human activities. Similar steps were taken to find any traces of their existence today, such as camara trapping. Sightings have been reported but never confirmed. Some people are adamant that they still exist somewhere in the deep mountains.

[@kidslovesatan34]

Is that the same as the extant clouded leopard in Thailand? They are still there in the jungle.

[@TheECSH]

​@@kidslovesatan34 yes, but a subspecies that's endemic to Taiwan. Funny enough that you should mentioned this, because again, similar to this video, some scientists have proposed using clouded leopard species from Southeast Asia as surrogates to carry the embryos of the genetically edited Taiwanese clouded leopards

[@downrodeo]

@@TheECSH I build a biking trail near my home here in Malaysia. It is a small low land rainforest area. The clouded leopard has been reportedly spotted here. Not sure how many are around though. And more importantly what sex they are.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Yes! I've seen pictures of them, they were so beautiful, I hope some still survive. . . It's sad how many animals get hunted for their fur until they're driven into extinction.

[@timbanks7344]

They do have some in zoos, there is one in the national zoo at least there was a couple years ago.

[@JoniusGnome]

I live in Tasmania. A lot of the landscape here is rugged, steep and inaccessible, with quickly changing weather patterns. I believe the Thylacine still exists. Many extinct species have been found in remote places, look at the Coelacanth, the prehistoric fish found still alive and kicking.

[@tehmtbz]

There's a guy here on KZbin, a biologist I iirc, who means to collect enough money to, at some point, travel to an area of Tasmania he has identified as inaccessible to any natural predators, and well-removed from any human populations. He says he doesn't want to go there until he has the money to do it right so he can feel certain one way or the other. Incredible prospect. He feels it's very likely still alive. I hope I live to see it.

[@jillianj310]

@@tehmtbzi saw this, I thought it was in papau new guinea where the singing dogs were rediscovered. And it was a tribe member who had one as a pet! But extremely interesting either way.

[@alfredvalrie5541]

The problem is that the Tiger is megafauna which preferred grasslands not mountains.

[@JoniusGnome]

@@alfredvalrie5541 Tasmanian Tiger was too small to prey on Megafauna.

[@jillianj310]

@@alfredvalrie5541 to be fair, I think they said it might be a close cousin of the Tasmanian tiger. Like a slightly differently evolved version.

[@JD-qh3sd]

One problem with this: The thylacine didn't sound anything like that. They're not related to wolves -- they're not canids at all -- and there's no evidence that they ever made any howling sounds like that. Reports from people who actually heard thylacines in the past indicate they were usually mute but would sometimes make short barks (but nothing like dog barks) or squealing sounds.

[@pseudocode1]

and a deer would make a noise like that but they ruled it out to fit their narrative

[@tourdegadetheskankslayer1065]

Tasmanian tigers didn't howl like a wolf or dog they supposedly made a "yip" "yip" sound according to first hand accounts from before extinction.

[@neilwaters7543]

😂 In over 100,000 years of human contact with Thylacine's, Adrian Richardson is the 1st one to EVER state that they howl like a wolf. Nice story, but it needs more dragons...

[@bolbyballinger]

To be fair the researchers of old kind of threw out accounts from natives and we didn't really put all that much thought into the thylacine other than finding ways to off it. There's gonna be a lot of info missing on them.

[@UpTheAnte1987]

I wonder if anyone’s told him marsupials don’t howl. Always take anything anyone who’s obsessed with a subject says with a large grain of salt

[@ShamWerks]

They did that just to get the Flying Bisons to take off.

[@joedennehy386]

Richo was pranked

[@JLYVE89]

The amount of animal species that went extinct/are going extinct because of human populating, deforestation and hunting is incredible, sad and infuriating.

[@TopFix]

The Thylacine existed on the mainland of Australia and went extinct there 2,000 years ago, way before any European arrival. Based on historical trajectory, it was bound to go extinct in Tasmania eventually regardless.

[@DonutCrazyYT]

In 1980, we were driving (slowly) up an abandoned train track, on the outskirts of Zeehan, and had to stop, as one passed in front of us. It came from the right, stopped in the middle of the road/tracks (in the full sunlight), looked at us for 10-20 seconds, and then continued walking off to the left. All 4 of us in the car, all agreed we'd seen a Tassie Tiger.

[@Shattered65]

I suspect the last few wild ones were around the Zeehan area in that period, but I am sure that the population was so low that they have long since died out. We saw what we were sure was one standing on a road in that area around December 1980 as we came around a bend it turned and ran into the scrub.

[@DonutCrazyYT]

@@Shattered65That’s my thought too. So glad we got to see one.

[@MeadowDay]

How lucky you were to see such a sight…I’ve always been heartbroken by the irresponsible loss of such a glorious animal.

[@MattMcAlister-ky2xc]

That’s the most likely scenario - they probably still existed until around the mid-80s but have since indeed gone extinct. It’s unlikely that it would have been another animal that you’d seen in the area

[@AKayani559]

​@@MattMcAlister-ky2xcwhat do you mean it couldn't been another animal it most likely was another animal

[@dislikebutton4593]

Tasmania native here, these creatures still exist. But they are very rare. I’ve seen 2 in my lifetime while out and about.

[@steverichardson6920]

I remember an incident here in WA where a livestock truck came to grief and a cow escaped into a block of land surrounded by main roads and it took a couple of weeks to find that cow, so a small animal in thousands of square kilometres not hard to believe 🤷🏼

[@bolbyballinger]

Also, there's reports of them being in New Guinea which is the most unexplored place on earth. In fact, one anthropologist was told about a story of a native in the area who had one as a pet and since they were going to that area anyway looked into it. By the time they got there it had been killed by the natives dogs as it was smaller and weaker. And the natives taking advantage of all calories they could had eaten it. But there were bones that were thrown out and the anthropologist did find a jaw bone and took a picture. And the image matches a thylacine jaw perfectly. So, somewhere in New Guinea, ringed by near impenetrable rainforest mountains, there could very well be the thylacine.

[@MattHobson-cr6xk]

​@@bolbyballingermaybe in new guinea maybe.but that isn't the most unexplored place pretty sure somewhere in Brazil is or the Amazon. in all of these places the jungle is dense ASF and in some type of constant tribal warfare so yeah who knows what's hiding I am more convinced there are monster snakes out there than the Tassie tigers myself but hey who knows Forrest seems pretty convinced if there are in new guinea pretty sure he will find em.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

​@@bolbyballingerYes, if they were there, they'd be endangered by dog packs, who would consider the thylacine to be invading the dogs' turf.

[@leonardotheuseless4188]

@@bolbyballinger why would they be in new guinea, tasmania is so far away from there, at most they would be a similar species.

[@bolbyballinger]

@@leonardotheuseless4188 The presence of dingoes drove the Thylacine to extinction on mainland Australia. This is important because back in the ice age ocean levels were lower. So low in fact that Australia and New Guinea were actually one contiguous landmass rather than separate islands. So it's only logical that the thylacine was also in New Guinea just like there are kangaroos in New Guinea. That and there's an actual fossil record. Is it a different kind of thylacine? Almost certainly. But it's a thylacine all the same.

[@fluxpistol3608]

Tasmanian tigers, or thylacines, did not howl. They likely made a variety of sounds such as hissing, coughing, and a distinctive series of husky barking noises that may have served as a form of communication. There isn't any concrete evidence or description from historical observations that suggests they howled like wolves or dogs. Thylacines had a different jaw structure and vocal capability from those canids known for howling. Therefore it likely wasn't a Tasmanian Tiger.

[@rumpeltyltskyn]

And am I mistaken, but are there not feral dogs in New Zealand?

[@Tasmanaut]

@@rumpeltyltskyn this isn't in new zealand mate, it's in tasmania.

[@rumpeltyltskyn]

@@Tasmanaut I misunderstood, thats my bad, I get names/places mixed up, I thought Tasmanian was part of New Zealand, not Australia.

[@Tasmanaut]

@@rumpeltyltskyn that's hilarious XD I would be offended but it's just funny

[@rumpeltyltskyn]

@@Tasmanaut I think I misheard something in a video once and got it twisted in my head!

[@CompoundingTime]

Remember when we followed old Adrian into the woods and tricked the geezer into think we were Tasmania Tigers howling?

[@Yogachara]

First I laughed at your comment, then I felt really sad... ☹️

[@andrewchalmers7422]

You couldn't get to where he was city couch potato

[@Legiey]

💀

[@HanginOffThaReel]

Exact same! Lol ​@@Yogachara

[@pichan8841]

The 'howl' is exactly what made me doubt it being a thylacine: No howling documented. Only grunting and yelping of sorts...

[@JMcKey21]

The fact that it is a marsupial is the wildest thing to me.

[@kikigood7567]

Deer actually make some crazy loud weird sounds just not often

[@anthonyhardt1994]

Yep! Deer will bellow in certain circumstances, and the man's calls sounded like a deer to me.

[@KhanMann66]

Or just a cat screeching. His howls sound similar to a cat.

[@creeperFIN123]

Dingos howl too so... Could be anything that howls.

[@wahoonbox]

You are so correct

[@stadic5311]

We been hearing about these de-extinction projects for years now and nothing has come from it. They talked about passenger pigeons, Tasmanian tiger, and the woolly mammoth. I’ve seen them all

[@captmulch1]

Ah, yes, the annual Tasmanian Tiger story …

[@Gigglypuffx3]

Lmao

[@ricardorascon88]

Boo hoo just more history about how yt🙍🏼people killed off another animal species 😂.....

[@Abbybabby29]

What’s sad to me is they roamed for thousands of years and then people as horrible humans came in and annihilated them really sad just another animal taken out by people

[@hughbryant898]

Specifically, the colonials (not the original settlers) drove it to extinction.

[@richardclark.]

And after they pay to have it eliminated they make it a mascot and wonder where it is?

[@Antechynus]

​@hughbryant898 the original settlers wiped out the thylacine and devil on the mainland when they introduced dingos... the first feral introduction.

[@badbattleaxe5832]

As humans we are an Apex predators, many times through history Apex predators have rendered their predecessors obsolete and eventually they go extinct. It’s a sad but natural process that’s been happening for millennia.

[@richardclark.]

@@badbattleaxe5832 yeah. But we had a choice. Reasoning process and foresight. It was not the natural order of things or a matter of survival.

[@johnbwill]

The Tigers don't howl - wrong. Also - "there are no wild dogs in Tasmania" - completely untrue. There's a pack of wild dogs up in the western lakes - I've heard them howling on more than one occasion, when I was doing week-long hikes into that remote backcountry. I'd love it to be true - but that first guy lends zero credibility to the idea.

[@hodaka1000]

It would be nice to find them In the 1960's you could imagine it but as time goes on and with more and more people with more and more cameras it's more and more unlikely

[@zxyatiywariii8]

You have wild dogs? I hope Tasmania is careful about dogs coming in from abroad, you're one of the few places free from canine rabies. Rabies is endemic here in the US, except for Hawaii, which has such strict regulations, even Certified Service Dogs need to undergo a bunch of tests and documentation before we can visit Hawaii with a Service Dog.

[@Tasmanaut]

@@zxyatiywariii8 we don't have wild dogs. Any that are found would be shot by park rangers.

[@YortOK]

​@@zxyatiywariii8we ARE very careful about animals from overseas. There is no rabies anywhere in Australia.

[@comfortablynumb9342]

The Loch Ness monster and yeti have never been proven to have ever existed. We know Tazzy tigers were real. This isn't a hunt for Bigfoot.

[@OGtruthserum]

Loch Ness are pleiosaur, they existed a long time ago.

[@liamgross7217]

@@OGtruthserumyea, way before the loch was formed.

[@KhanMann66]

Wasn’t the guy who came up with the Loch Ness proven to be a hoax?

[@liamgross7217]

@@KhanMann66 the famous photo was a hoax. Some doctor took it.

[@kobrapromotions]

@@OGtruthserum loch wasnt anything its all made up... it hasnt been found, you cant even say it was a plesiosaur because again 0 evidence. Grow up.

[@markleon411]

Nothing can erase the shame of our ignorance and destruction of environment and species. We must learn from our mistakes and move forward with care.

[@ricardorascon88]

Yt people must learn ! Europeans and there descendants to be exact! Thankfully I'm only half Spaniard luckily not British

[@TopFix]

The Thylacine existed on the mainland of Australia and went extinct there 2,000 years ago, way before any European arrival. Based on historical trajectory, it was bound to go extinct in Tasmania eventually regardless.

[@no_name787-fs3yk]

Not my fault 🤷

[@andrewkellett6290]

Unfortunately the Tasmanian government still allows the logging of native forests reducing suitable habitat to this day. Leonardo mentioned this on his own Facebook page.

[@Cloud_JOB]

In 1957, they stated that it was roaming around the bushes. In 1986, it was put on the endangered species list. The man was telling the truth. He must have seen something. What a fascinating species.

[@WILD__THINGS]

Thylacine were not canids and did not howl. And if they are still around, they are most likely in New Guinea.

[@kristaprice1954]

That's what Forrest Galante says. Not that I swallow everything he says but the way he explains his reasons make A LOT of sense with the geography and history of the Tasmanian Tiger.

[@WILD__THINGS]

@@kristaprice1954 That's exactly why I'm saying this.

[@tornmien]

Imagine being out there and hear something saying something like "They're GRRREAT!"

[@AFloridaSon]

Yeah, but they're not actually tigers.

[@tornmien]

@@AFloridaSon Just saying they're as rare as Tony.

[@Robochop-vz3qm]

🤣

[@svenmorgenstern9506]

But do they like breakfast cereals? 🤷‍♂️

[@joshclark756]

tony the tight is real

[@MarijkeWillemsen990]

It’s horrible that people murdered all the Tasmanian tigers and that it was also paid for by the government.

[@igorz3551]

Yeah 😒

[@retriever19golden55]

That's how the American bison was driven to the brink of extinction.

[@kellyruddock8822]

the tiger was not a sheep killer! the jaws werent big enough to crush a sheep skull. maybe a lamb but not a full grown sheep. the tiger was very misunderstood. they were killed for no reason. i believe they are still around.

[@pyroglyphies]

This is so true. I've read and watched so many facts about the extinct animals and Tasmanian Tiger is one of the most misunderstood animal ever. Not even surprised considering how low the conservative nature and efforts of our people back in the day. Their drastic "preventive measurements" back in the day caused way too many unbalanced ecosystem that the scientists nowadays are trying to reverse. I also believe these creatures are just somewhere deep in the mountains like other 'extinct' animals that are currently getting rediscovered.

[@screenPhiles]

Okay, they were essentially thought to be vermin and were hunted down and killed. Got it. Now what makes you think they're still around?

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Ikr, it makes me so angry at the people who killed them so ruthlessly and stupidly! 🤦🏾‍♀️🤬😢

[@dianagraham4021]

THANK YOU!

[@titaniumquarrion9838]

I a unsure if tiger's hunted sheep or not but to claim it was impossible due to jaw size isn't a great reason. Wolves can't crush a Caribou or Moose skull but they bring them down by attacking and crippling their back legs and belly.

[@Bhafez1]

THIS MAN OUT HERE HOWLING AND THE INTERVIEWER SAID DO IT AGAIN 😂

[@SovietMOB]

I never thought the extinction of animals over time was anything more than the cycle of life. Then when I was in my 20s I went to a history museum and they had a display of actual birds that went extinct and the place they were last seen. It was so many different species and they were so different looking and to think they will never be here again was sad ! One of them the last sighting was in my town and I remember seeing that species as a kid. Hopefully they find the thylacine.

[@popeyethepirate5473]

Hopefully you can figure out that communism tries to make ppl extinct...

[@eldiablo3794]

The Great Auks were single handedly exterminated by humans... even if you were to look at it from the "cycle of life" angle the driving factor behind the extinction of species like the Great Auk was literally men over hunting them.

[@jgs1703]

Species have gone extinct since the beginning of time.

[@SovietMOB]

@@jgs1703 obviously. 🙄

[@ShooterMcGavin-zm6rm]

Was it your Dad?

[@elderinmoi1571]

The silhouette of that animal running across the street … no dog no wolf runs like that. I don’t know that it is but i never saw an animal running like that.

[@prameelaramanujan5672]

If it's really been "spotted" or seen, then that's good news. Just leave them be. Let them roam freely and stop "stalking" them❤❤❤

[@kellykempvero]

There all dead. There isn’t any

[@mdee8784]

Honestly Tassie is so wild and remote I reckon there’s gotta be a few still left out there. Here’s hoping we get to see them again one day

[@4bidden1]

Even if there is a few left then inbreeding would have or will have token them out

[@bradwilliams1691]

Totally agree.

[@robertmurray6340]

The Tasmanian tiger still exist in my opinion. Very few numbers but I believe there is still at least one or 2 populations of them that exist on the wild.

[@bradwilliams1691]

Tasmania is still largely untouched by human hands - I agree.

[@vsznry]

I liked that one film where Willem Dafoe is hired to find one.

[@danielmartin7838]

That was a great movie!

[@bryanbaker5730]

The Hunter I think!

[@atruceforbruce5388]

The howling 3 : marsupials, mentions some.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

WARNING SPOILERS BELOW, don't scroll down if you don't want to know! I love the way he started out as a callous "bounty hunter" working for a company as evil as Vault-Tec, but then he eventually came to empathize with that hunted, elderly, suffering thylacine. ❤

[@Daniel-nr6iw]

Didn't he end up killing it in the movie?

[@chakuseki]

Tasmanian Tiger is the name of an ED pill I bought at the local bodega

[@maximusolivia9982]

And? How’d it turn out?? Don’t leave us “hanging”

[@aguyinavan6087]

Don't take it, you'll go extinct.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

​@@maximusolivia9982😆🤣😂

[@tituswillow]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣howling😂

[@FaydsterTV]

“60% of the time it works every time”

[@amycastor2872]

Just think of all the other animals that humans are currently driving into extinction

[@enticingmay435]

Yeah it’s sad that people don’t become obsessed with them until after they’re gone.

[@9ofClovers]

Press F to pay respect to Harambe

[@AFloridaSon]

There's not enough money in saving animals that are not yet extinct. By bringing back extinct animals, they can put patent on them, and sell them to the highest bidders.

[@poindextertunes]

@@9ofCloverstoo soon

[@radicalsuggestions]

Even on that same island: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_War

[@marleyboy7732]

If you ever come across an Aussie hunter who likes to drink. Sit down with one. They can tell you some of the funniest & crazy stories. Had an ol boy here in Tx. Couldnt get enough. He was so funny & cool.

[@apancher]

Aussies are a blast in general!

[@zxyatiywariii8]

I LOVE Aussies!

[@futureport]

We had an old mate who lived on a mountain here in oz, he swore that his reclusive rich neighbour was a bio scientist and conducted experiments on animals. He reckons one night (after a few beers at the pub) he came home to an open door and a strange creature the size of a large goanna shaped like an armadillo running rampant through his house! Those tales are the best!

[@josh26566]

​@@futureportwhat's a goanna?

[@marleyboy7732]

@@futureport 🤣🤣🤣 crazy

[@YuSayinFuqery]

2 other enthusiasts made the howls while searching themselves & catfished him.. Now he’s on a wild Goose chase. He catfished himself, his wife’s going to be livid.

[@letstalkaboutit8254]

I would wager the majority of the blurry videos supposedly depicting a Tas. Tiger are actually fox's with mange- that would account for the slender tail.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

It's highly unlikely what he heard was a thylacine. However, I'll always hold out hope some still survive.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

​@@letstalkaboutit8254I agree. We once rescued an orphaned fox kit, and literally everyone who saw him thought he was a dog pup with some husky genes, because his tail was still short-furred, and he had the blue eyes common to babies of his breed. Eventually his eyes turned green and then finally fox-amber, and his tail poofed into a proper fox tail; but foxes can be mistaken for many other animals, and they have very adaptable sounds, depending on what sounds they heard as babies.

[@puppetguy8726]

I remember feeling sad about the extinction when I first read about the Tasmanian tiger many years ago, I hope they can find proof they're still out there

[@bolbyballinger]

There is some new evidence coming from New Guinea (which they did live in at one point). An anthropologist heard about a native having a "striped dog" (the thing the natives called thylacines when shown images of them that they recognized) for a pet. It couldn't keep up with the actual dogs the natives had and died. As they would with any of their dogs they then ate it. Fortunately the bones were thrown out and the anthropologist was able to find a jaw bone. They took a picture and scientists confirmed it as looking exactly like a thylacine jaw. And this is an area we straight up haven't explored. It's a mountainous area that's also a rainforest so traversing it is exceptionally difficult. If the thylacine is alive, it'll be there.

[@MrPaulviles]

Should correct you that it was THOUGHT that they preyed on sheep but is proven they didn’t.

[@nivision]

"preyed on sheep"? expected better of you, 60 minutes. that was largely a misconception they used to hunt it to extinction. we now know that though their jaws look scary, they weren't actually very strong.

[@bradwilliams1691]

Back in 2001 my wife and I took the kids on a trip to Tasmania. While on the road between Strahan and Queenstown on the west coast, both my wife and I clearly saw a dog like animal come out of the bush, cross the road and, with one leap, climb up the embankment (at least 2 - 2.5 metres high) on the other side. Unfortunately, it was too far away & too quick to get a detailed look but, the animal in question was too big to be a feral cat or dog. Until my dying day, I'm convinced that what we saw was a Thylacine. True story.

[@boosted_l6787]

As soon as I heard his howling I thought crazy

[@JoseGonzalez-vy1kc]

Lol samesies

[@boosted_l6787]

@@JoseGonzalez-vy1kc When they make noises of these things like bigfoot ect I'm like I'm out

[@JoseGonzalez-vy1kc]

​@@boosted_l6787😆 🤣

[@MrBrenos]

A few Tassie boys that go looking for the Tasmanian Tiger stumbled onto tiger footprints a couple of weeks ago. Here’s hoping they are still here

[@octavius428ball]

Lmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂yeh I bet they really did being experts in the field and all 😂😂😂😂

[@MrBrenos]

@@octavius428ball yeah so funny champ. Kind of like the animals they have been rediscovered in Tassie after being classed as extinct for over 200 years. Those experts?

[@brucewayne3633]

The footprints looked a bit small, perhaps a possum...

[@minirock000]

They do not call them shrimp they call them prawn.

[@gointothedogs4634]

I recall the Australian actor who did commercials saying, "Put another shrimp on the bar-b."

[@minirock000]

@@gointothedogs4634 That would be Paul Hogan or commonly known as "Crocodile Dundee" in the states. Another unknown thing in the states, Aussies do not drink "Fosters", they think it is swill.

[@baabaabaa-yp2jh]

​@@minirock000Naa, we know it's swill!! And the shrimp bit Hoges did was so the Yanks didn't get confused.

[@minirock000]

@@baabaabaa-yp2jh Aye.

[@Alberthoward3right9up]

​@@baabaabaa-yp2jh seppos aint real smart 😂😂

[@cheshunt5597]

Look out for the Drop Bears! The TAS Tiger didn’t howl. Until very recently there were many older Tasmanians who had seen and heard the tiger. No one mentioned howls or calling across valleys.

[@sarahbass6116]

I firmly believe that the Tasmanian Tiger still exists. Over the years they have learned to avoid humans.

[@coreencasey5109]

This is not an Australian 60 Minutes.

[@DalazG]

Something i always struggle to understand is how we seem incapable of ridding invasive species, but species we want, we can't keep. - Australia can't get rid of African cane toads - Florida can't get rid of Indian burmese pythons - Spain can't get rid of carribbean sea urchins But we struggle to keep native animals alove

[@christiannielsenalaiza6371]

Compared to the Dodo bird, I think this one still holds a glimmer of hope. I’ve been to Tasmania and I do share with the locals that thought, this crazy but possible idea of actually spotting one.

[@craig9563]

Intro: Hardly an appropriate comparison between a recently extinct real animal, the thylacine, with two bogus mythical creatures.

[@chuckjenkins4348]

Being from the states I too have spent my whole life praying! wondering! hoping! if there’s still one group of them hiding away out in the bush where they can’t be seen and pray before I die they’ll be found again.!!!

[@YortOK]

My granddad saw one at Hobart zoo in the early 30's. I don't know if he saw one in the wild, I never asked him.

[@jonathanroberts-bj7yl]

It’s amazing how long they survived.

[@HiImJeff00]

“Don’t nature mess with animals mess” - a wise person

[@danielmartin7838]

What’s happened to 60 minutes? Incredibly erroneous to draw a comparison between mythical creatures and the Tassie Tiger. And the mannerisms of the presenter are forced and contorted in a most unnatural way. There were game cams some years back that released incredible pictures of what definitely looked like a Thylacine.

[@number4cat1]

Yeah, I would be embarrassed if forced to read that intro nonsense in front of a camera, but I think this narrator is immune to embarrassment.

[@haemstah]

It's mostly cheese these days.

[@XxBloggs]

There have never been any videos that show thylacines since the alleged extinction. There are plenty of people with good imaginations.

[@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSA]

If the Tasmanian Tiger has managed to avoid extinction, how has it survived with others as the gene pool must be extremely small?

[@jman360co]

30 yrs ago he heard the call. 40 yes ago called for its extintion. Best possible scenario was that 30 years ago it was functionally extinct.

[@booklover6403]

Some posted that 12 individuals had have survived for a healthy gean pool to exist to this day

[@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px]

@@booklover6403 A healthy gene pool takes 10s of thousands of members. Not a dozen. Any genetic defect in a population that small will become dominant and end the species.

[@user-wb1nz6fq2i]

Wanna know the true story about how the last tiger "Benjamin" died? Well, My great great grandfather was a Zookeeper at Beaumaris zoo. The family story passed down from him goes like this- A young lad with down syndrome named Jebediah Brown, was employed at the zoo to sweep sawdust and clean the cages, my GGGrandpa caught young Jeb fooling around with the animals on numerous occasions, but because of his affliction, they let him do it ( because the local lasses didn't want a bar of poor Jebediah due to him having too many chromosomes and the zookeepers felt bad for him ) so they turned a blind eye to him fiddling the critters. So, one windy day in the spring of 1936, Jebediah- with a skin full of liquor, got into the cage with Benjamin for a little fun. Well, the liquor took control of the feeble minded boy and he went too far, he put his member inside the beast and stirred it around and around some more, until the critters insides became all mixed up like a stew....and just like that, the last tiger kicked the bucket. When the zookeepers had seen the aftermath of Jebediahs sin, they bundled him up in a potato sack and threw him down a mineshaft on the outskirts of Hobart Town.......and apparently, even to this day, on a windy September morn, you can still hear the screams of Jebediah Brown coming from that old mineshaft.

[@wunclerlaufenbumcorneliusu7047]

Man, your great-grandparents killed this thing off, it’s too late lmaoooo

[@rickh3714]

A teardrop of an island- bigger than Switzerland? 🤔 Remember on maps you're comparing it with the Australian mainland-not Bermuda!

[@shaundgb7367]

I was down Tasmania just over a week ago. Think it bigger than my own state. Took a good six hours drive to go from bottom part of it to the top part of the state. Still not seen the west side of Tasmania. Think that is real wilderness so would not be surprised this Tassie Tiger could exist in an area where not many humans live.

[@andyshriner5443]

I heard him say that they "preyed on farmers' sheep," which is what was claimed at the time but I found this on Science daily: "Australia's iconic thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was hunted to death in the early Twentieth century for allegedly killing sheep; however, a new study has found that the tiger had such weak jaws that its prey was probably no larger than a possum."

[@nephos100]

When you find the Loch Ness monster and the Abominable Snowman, you'll probably find them playing cards with the Tasmanian Tiger.

[@quester09]

thylacine: I'm back! coelacanth:

[@brucekuehn4031]

Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone

[@marvymarier8988]

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"

[@BabbittdaWabbitt]

Oh, you beat me to it…Doh !

[@zxyatiywariii8]

So sad and so true.

Life, uh, finds a way

[@mypalfootfoot9591]

I do hope Mr. Richardson finds that the Tasmanian Tiger has survived but having a feeling in your heart, no matter how fervent it may be, is evidence of nothing.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Same. I hope, but I doubt.

[@forgingstrength6119]

I really hope they are still out there, somewhere.

[@MTG776]

I've been to Tasmania and one might think it is a small island compared to Australia further north, but have no doubt Tasmania is a huge island. More than a quarter of the island is still unexplored.

[@kraneiathedancingdryad6333]

Cool and all, but wouldn't it be more productive trying to save the environment for the animals we have left?

[@AFloridaSon]

There's no money in saving animals. They're a for profit business. They will patent the animals and sell them to the highest highest bidders. Colossal is basically a glorified puppy mill.

[@kathleenmartin7498]

I truly do hope they find some who have still survived.

[@willyates9176]

I hope there are still some around, but I don’t wish them to be found by humans. Look what happened last time. They are only extinct or nearly so because of human intervention.

[@JacobafJelling]

2:10 when people start imitating the howl, then you know it’s over

[@richardburgess5865]

Thylacene never howled the way canids do!

[@KhanMann66]

Old man was tripping. Dude never explain how he knew it was Tasmanian tiger.

[@bolbyballinger]

That said, colonialists have a bad habit of handwaving the natives. Plus they all pretended the thylacine was killing more sheep per year than the island even had to begin with. So there's probably a lot of stuff they missed. Plus, I've seen multiple dogs that "can't howl" give it a shot and actually produce a howl. Not a particularly strong howl, but a howl nonetheless.

[@ooblah10]

Tassy doesn't have dingoes or wild dogs so maybe a fox or quoll he heard?

[@zxyatiywariii8]

​@@ooblah10A fox with mange could have a skinny tail, too, which could make him/her look more like a thylacine from a distance. Although the jaw would be very different. . .

[@Tasmanaut]

@@zxyatiywariii8 there are NO foxes in tasmania

[@leegalen8383]

Gotta love Australians❤

[@joshuawilliams-tt1ng]

My farther in law was at a pub north of Hobart around 2006. Two local hunters had shot one mistaking it for a wild dog and brought it back to the bar. It was placed in a deep freezer for about 6weeks until the university paid the publican and hunters to keep it quiet and took the dead tiger away.

[@donjuanako]

Footage of two men walking, clear as day Footage of taz tiger, blurry as hell

[@4bidden1]

😂

[@winesap2]

I hope they find some of the Tasmanian Tigers still alive, but people claim to see bigfoot too.

[@johnshields6852]

Someday there'll be one or two humans left and will probably be out in a room (cage) for beings from other worlds to visit and marvel at the last human, maybe even feed him/her.

[@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSA]

Petted too?

[@brandonbeeler2954]

@@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSAfeed us skittles 🤣

[@liamgross7217]

I hope they don’t poke us 😬

[@sizeablelad1270]

I wouldnt if I was an alien

[@kittwood5336]

This is absolutely not a joke. Best friends of mine lived down the road from me in Haines City Florida. The area was close to several former theme parks where exotic animals were often brought and displayed over decades occasionally escaped. So it is not completely uncommon to see unusual animals in this part of Florida. One afternoon they were sitting in their house where they lived in the back of an orange grove, and through their glass door they saw an animal walk by in their growth that they could not identify. They described it as moving something like a cat, having a head like a dog, but stripes like a tiger, and they could not imagine what it was. They began searching and searching to find out what the strange creature could be and one afternoon told me joyfully that they had found out what it was, it was a thylacine! Please show me a picture and I cannot even believe it was real. I had never heard the word or any reference to a Tasmanian tiger. But I will tell you to this very day, I absolutely believe there was one in Haines City Florida in 1994. I don't know how long they live, or if it was alone, I believe my friends.

[@CowboyJojosAdventures]

Great episode. Would Love to think that it is still in the wild!

[@gointothedogs4634]

Why would it be impossible to recreate a Thylacine when scientists are doing it with mammoths? I'd love to know they were back!

[@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px]

They aren't actually bringing back mammoths. They are making an elephant that looks like a mammoth. They "hope" it will act like a mammoth and fill the ecological role they once did, but behavior isn't genetic, it's learned so having a pseudomammoth raised by elephants will likely just result in a hairy elephant that acts like an elephant with overheating issues.

[@rosariodagosto6484]

NEVER ASK A SERIOUS QUESTION IN AN AUSTRALIAN PUB ...😊😊

[@leokimvideo]

There's always easy money via government grants to go searching for the Tassie Tiger. It always attracts a certain style of person. Thats what makes Tasmania so special. It's weird because there was a human extinction on Tasmania yet that's ignored. Honestly I don't understand anymore.

[@EelisWalking]

Government grants for thylacine searches ended in the 1980s

[@doh4828]

The thylacine has been extinct for such a relatively short time, that chances are actually quite reasonable that small populations have managed to survive in remote regions. There have been continuous sightings, a lot of which are quite convincing and hopefully it’s just a matter of time before one is confirmed.

[@Ryne918]

Little do they know, I'm a Tasmanian tiger.

[@MichaelmaxxxxX]

haha and your icon winked too!

[@ricktaylor3748]

My girlfriend has an Appalachian tiger, it has brownish black fur. Every 28 days it pukes blood.

[@gointothedogs4634]

Well, if you have to tell us, you're probably not

[@ricktaylor3748]

@@gointothedogs4634 Who is "us"?

[@NoOneHere2Day]

@@ricktaylor3748 I also hate when people use "we" or "us" in the comments section. No one speaks for me, ever.

[@perseus431]

10:04 He calls it a mammal, but isnt it a marsupial?

[@aleale6277]

Marsupials are mammals

[@dirtyfrench2926]

All mammals fall into 3 groups. Placentals like humans who give birth to a fully developed baby. Marsupials like Kangaroos that have a pouch the baby continues to develop in, and Monotromes like echidnas and the platypus that lays eggs.

[@GassersGhost]

@@mattrag4988 You were two hours late (on the same damn thread) to be the smartest guy in the room. 👍

[@patrickwolff6902]

“He said it’s a rectangle but it’s really a square”

[@krnpowr]

Uh... duh... what do you think marsupials are, Einstein?

[@marcob1729]

It's more likely that the tiger could be hanging out in the depths of New Guinea than in the relatively more inhabited Tasmania

[@danielcharles4451]

“Outback Tasmania” …. That’s hilarious! Outback is what Aussie’s call the desert area on the mainland, while in Tasmania it’s called the “wilderness” as it’s so lush and most the island uninhabited.

[@blockchain1776]

There are Mountain Lions in North Carolina, but they say there are not. I saw one, and others i have talked to have as well

[@dirtbikeheaven1129]

Same in West Virginia, although my sighting was years ago.

[@pauledwards6446]

Hahaha

[@superflyers148]

Hey everyone check out "The Hunter" with William Dafoe. It's a fictional story about trying to find the last Tasmanian Tiger.

[@megadavemedina]

scientist's assessment is on point

[@desiv1170]

"What is the middle ground? You could be right. You could be lying." Um... Pretty obvious that the other option there is: "You could be wrong." What a weird statement...

[@effmltalks]

Very interesting. Very sad when species go extinct.

[@richardclark.]

Especially when we pay to have it extinct. Then make it a mascot and wonder where it is.

[@jonbinki9651]

How many tears have you shed for never encountering a saber tooth tiger or a troop of North American Hyena's, during a field walk?

[@rustykerr3174]

I wanted you to know that was a group of 12-13 Tasmania tigers living and breeding as I saw 2 little ones that hadn’t fully developed there stripes yet, one big one came out of the pack and charged me I have never been so scared in my life I had no idea what I was seeing the stripes long tail , long muzzle lots of teeth I didn’t find out what I saw for years later. I feel so lucky to have seen them, but at the time it was really scary. I have never gone back, but now I want to see if I can find the road and set up a couple of game cams. They looked very healthy. There by Mt. Rainer in Washington state, Though you should know they do exist.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Washington State? That's a highly unlikely place for thylacines, even if a breeding pair had been imported there, the climate is completely wrong. Also, thylacines don't live in packs like wolves, so if there were 12 - 13, they were probably either wolves or wild dogs, those do live in packs. Sounds scary though, whatever they were, parents are very protective of their babies. Edit: But yeah, set up a camera, it would be interesting to see whatever you saw. Go when breeding season is long gone, it'd be safer

[@satderry8149]

Robert Deniro's range is incredible

[@beththurling4965]

In Kakadu in the Northern Territory of Australia -thousands of miles from Tasmania there are rock paintings made by aborigines of the Thylacine

[@homininnomad7019]

Likely a population of 10 or less. In South Africa, there is a single lone female adult African Elephant grazing the Outiniqua forests stemming from a relic population.

[@dihe1392]

How sad, poetic even, maybe. To be the last of your species 😢

[@Mephitinae]

If there is a population, then its DNA should be detectable in lakes. It either shows up when tested, or it doesn't, and that settles it. This isn't the 1980s anymore, we have the tech to verify it.

[@drengr2759]

The definition of "extinction" is far too simplified. "Functional extinction" means that they can never recover, because of multiple factors. Inbreeding is a major factor; birth defects are severe after 1 generation of inbreeding. After several generations, lethal defects become insurmountable.

[@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px]

@@drengr2759 Unless they are cheetahs and they decide they might as well effectively become clones and recover from near extinction.

[@donantonio5646]

If they were still alive wouldnt someone have samples of their poop or paw prints by now?

[@taramansion]

Idk if I'm on board with 'creating' them, but after watching that sad footage of the last known one in a zoo, it would be cool to know they still exist.

[@jimmymarsh44]

One of the reasons the thylacine looks so prehistoric is its tail that sticks straight out so uniquely. Dogs' or dingos' or coyotes' tails are placed differently and allow for more flexibility to aid in communication. If those videos showed a random stray dog or dingo with mange, they would all have to be holding their tails straight out in the exact same position whenever caught on camera. Could be totally wrong, but I'm surprised this isn't mentioned in any coverage I've seen on the topic.