Biologists Just Found Out What Thylacines in Tasmania Actually Are
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Biologists Just Found Out What Thylacines in Tasmania Actually Are, and it isn't a wolf. A new study of 225 skulls shows the Tasmanian tiger's jaw matches no living mammal. Its closest working match is a crocodile.
For a century it was branded one of the most dangerous animals in Australia, a sheep killer behind wild animal attacks on livestock. The bones say otherwise: a 17 kg ambush predator that took bandicoots with one lightning-fast snap. Feral dogs, an invasive species, may have done much of the damage it was blamed for.
Inside:
the staged 1921 photo that built the myth
the 1933 zoo footage, a rare thylacine caught on camera
why it may have survived decades past 1936
the de-extinction plan and its wolf-costume problem
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Nature was there long before humans.
Humans didn't create nature, nature created humans.
While our domesticated modern dogs will breed their own siblings, wild animals tend to not, meaning males run off to go find nothing?
Papau New Guinea was once part of Australia before tectonic activity and sea level rise isolated the two land masses.
In New Guinea are many unique species of marsupials such as the tree kangaroo.
But New Guinea has regions in the interior that are so difficult to get to that even native aboriginal peoples have never ventured there.
On a strange longshot whim he made a black and white drawing pictograph of 10 different animals from Australia including the thylocene and had a friend show it to native people asking them to indicate any animals like those in the illustrations that they may have seen before or something similar to the pictograph.
Six animals were pointed to continuously by many of the people and the thylocene was one of those 6.
Then there was a report of a man in a remote village that had domesticated a thylocene. The researcher went to that village to find the man and succeeded in locating him.
He was told that yes he had raised a striped forest dog for years, but that it had gotten his other dogs upset and eventually it stopped eating and died.
Asked about the remains the man said he ate it after it died. Only a charred jawbone remained. He took the jawbone and sent it to the criptid researcher for an analysis.
DNA was fire damaged and inconclusive, but the jaw matched perfectly to that of preserved thylocenes.
He has asked indigenous people where these animals are? They said most are in the deep mountain forest interior. They claim to see them now and then in that region.
The investigator has spent 6 years setting up an expedition to explore that region. It can only be accessed by helicopter, and then only for small windows of time as the weather there is unpredictable.
His last footnate is this. He will document what he finds including any thylocene. But he says it is brtter for the animal if it remains unknown and the location never becomes public knowledge. He will not allow it to become threatened by human encroachment again if it is alive and thriving there.
Biologists Just Found Out What Thylacines in Tasmania Actually Are
Wilder Australia
38,098 views
Biologists Just Found Out What Thylacines in Tasmania Actually Are, and it isn't a wolf. A new study of 225 skulls shows the Tasmanian tiger's jaw matches no living mammal. Its closest working match is a crocodile.
For a century it was branded one of the most dangerous animals in Australia, a sheep killer behind wild animal attacks on livestock. The bones say otherwise: a 17 kg ambush predator that took bandicoots with one lightning-fast snap. Feral dogs, an invasive species, may have done much of the damage it was blamed for.
Inside:
the staged 1921 photo that built the myth
the 1933 zoo footage, a rare thylacine caught on camera
why it may have survived decades past 1936
the de-extinction plan and its wolf-costume problem
If you love animal facts, apex predators, wild Australia, scary animals, deadly animals and animals you didn't know existed, subscribe for more wildlife documentary stories.