", "February 2006, Tyalgum; Donna lives at Tyalgum and saw an unusual animal that ran through their paddock on dusk at great speed. The search was successful in that we found fresh paw prints in mud at a remote swampland location. We have been troubled by irresponsible dog owners whose pets have eaten our free range chooks (now all well fenced) so actually got out of the car to photograph the animal but it calmly loped off and it was too dark to get a photo. I saw the animal from a somewhat oblique angle, and the head was not clearly visible. Newcastle Herald, 2 March. ", Source:http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/guestbook.html, "In 1977 Mike said he saw a similar animal in Hartley Valley around 9pm one evening while driving to work. The animal, an obvious Thylacine, then began running along the edge of the highway to vanish into nearby bushes. From Mount Gambier or Tantanoola to the Coorong, South Australia is also a good place to find them. She went outside to investigate and rushed inside to tell me what she saw. However in the dense scrub we came across signs of a scuffle over a large area, between a wild pig and a thylacine, as indicated by thee dozens of tracks embedded in the soil. 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. 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. "'There is no evidence to confirm the thylacine still exists. ", Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20070607040632/http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/000012.html, "1992 Ewingsdale; Tony saw a creature on a bright and sunny mid-morning 50 metres away that he was at a total loss to identify. Then I noticed that the fore and hind legs were of the same size and that it did not have the usual colours of a swamp wallaby such as the ginger head fur, pale face stripe, black forepaws or black tail. He recalled his father and other old hands from the Pokolbin area, saying there were two different types of native cat the spotted quoll and the rare striped tiger quoll. An enigmatic report of an animal called a "hyena", which was one of the colonial names for the thylacine, killed in 1803: "Two animals of the hyena kind were seen at Campbell's Island by hunting parties belonging to the Mary and Sally ; from the description given of which they appear to have been of the same species with an animal killed at Port Phillip in 1803.". On a bike ride to the beach they had a good look at what both thought may have been a Tasmanian tiger as ridiculous as that sounds, stated Andrew. I was driving down Bruce Road at Glenbrook, when at a spot 20 yards from the location of my previous [January 1983] sighting, I saw either the same animal or another, eating some small animal, perhaps a possum, on the roadside. Researchers are looking for the Tasmanian Tiger in Northern Queensland after potential sightings suggest the species might not be extinct. Both at the same time - exactly the same time - my brothers wife and I yelled "Tasmanian Tiger". But the tinny-sipping South Australian Tassie tiger hunter, who filmed the clip wandering around northern Tasmanian bushland, was quickly shutdown, with the museum there ruling the photos were likely of a pademelon. It emerged from the vegetation 70m ahead, running across the road, travelling north and then stopped to watch his approach. The back legs were also shorter than the front ones. 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 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. As our vehicle came closer they left their prey to dash into roadside scrub. ", "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. Does the Tasmanian tiger still exist? F***ing joke: Neighbours stunning note, Firefighters stunned by treetop discovery, proof the extinct animals were still alive, Unearthed footage shows last-known glimpse of extinct Tasmanian tiger. ", "18th September 2011, 8pm, Cape Byron; observed by zoologist Mary Gardner on the way to the Cape Byron lighthouse. The most remarkable feature was the strange manner of running: although the animal was swinging regularly sideways, the hind part of the body made a kind of bobbing up and down movement; the impression was as if the animal was drunk, as I had never seen anything like it. One particualr day they came upon a trap with a stange looking animal in it. These were of a chocolat, and not very obvious. While searching the muddy bank of a remote swamp for signs of animals, we came across tracks left by various marsupials. According to Mr Pereira the animals body fur was a light brown colour with dark stripes along its body and it had a long thin strait tail which it did not wag.". It was about 1 metre high and 2 and half metres long with high haunches at the back of the body. At that time sheep were being killed and torn up in Hartley Valley by a Tasmanian Tiger-like beast, and that is what I believed ran in front of my car. After several fruitless nights, however, he retired to bed on the evening of 14th June. He watched it walk off from beside his car for one hundred metres. Furthermore, diseases were introduced which had a significant impact on the Tasmanian tigers population. He stopped and had a look but the animal had run off unhurt.". It was dog-like and about the size of a full-grown Alsatian, with fawn coloured body fur and a row of blackish body stripes extending barrel-wise from mid-back to tail-rump. Here we have a carnivore hanging out with two herbivores, can somebody please explain to me why this is occurring? It has a distinctly grey striped torso, long pointed muzzle, and a thick rigid tail. 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. Rex Gilroy believes so, https://web.archive.org/web/20210225014002/http://garyopit.com/64-thylacine-sightings/, https://www.thylacineresearchunit.org/sightingreports.htm, https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_thylacine_mainpage.html, The continuing search for the thylacine on the Blue Mountains, NSW, http://campbelltown-library.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-minto-monster.html, http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/guestbook.html, https://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.php/76-/588-thylacine-sighting-kenilworth-qld-1998-thylacine-caught-1978-nundle-nsw, https://web.archive.org/web/20200216184608/https://www.angelfire.com/oz/thylacine/, https://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/australian_thylacine_casts.html, Tasmanian tiger sightings: 'I represent 3,000 people who have been told theyre nuts', https://web.archive.org/web/20070607040632/http://www.tasmanian-tiger.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/000012.html, Christian Kropp has seen two Tasmanian tigers in the Barrington Tops, https://www.thylacineawarenessgroupofaustralia.com.au/read-tagoa-witness-sighting-reports.htm, https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/browse.html%3Fnode=8498354051&ref=kcp_fd_hz. ", "1995, The Coast Road, between Byron Bay and Lennox Heads; Kate Mathews was driving south with a friend through the heathland when they saw a dog-like animal running towards them along the grassy verge. Between 2016 to 2019, the report notes seven sightings of the Tasmanian tiger. Newcastle Herald, 8 March. I know it's a Thylacine," Richardson said. Source: Gilroy, Rex. ", "1999, Federal; Graham and Rosalind had a close view of a strange animal when driving between Whian Road and Bates Road near the old Dip when the headlights illuminated it. Then seeing us, turned and dashed off into the darkness. But one expert said hed only put a $50 bet down that it was the famed Aussie animal - a safe bet Mr Waters agrees at the end of the clip. "Later, on another detailed search for evidence above the gully, we stumbled upon tracks of a full-grown animal, an apparent female, alongside paw prints of a cub at least several hours old. The animal "turned and looked at the vehicle a couple of times" and "was in clear view for 12-15 seconds.". I stopped to check out the area but couldnt see anything due to thick Bush but the dead kangaroo had all its groin and throat Eaten out. The animal then bounded off up an embankment out of sight. He was camped at the old army hut and was driving to the logging coup on the western side of Peach Mountain lookout at 5 am on a Monday morning when he observed a thylacine cross the road 3 metres in front of his car. The final thylacine was captured in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. He never saw the animal again even though he drove those same roads for another 2 years. *It had strong powerful hind legs*smaller front legs*A long stiff tail that pointed straight out. At this moment they both saw a greyhound-like animal, long and skinny, run across the highway from the right-hand side [south] to the left [north]. In addition to these relentless attempts to control their numbers, several other factors drove the Tasmanian tiger to its eventual extinction. The Guardian (Australia), Thursday 1 December. The tracks were situated beneath a small embankment close to the waters edge. After the second time I saw it, it was gone nowhere to be seen. The animal was so close that he almost hit it as it reached the other side of his vehicle. Newcastle Herald, 8 March. Newcastle Herald, 2 March. A couple were spotlighting near Torington, when they saw three thylacines. 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. It was not afraid of me but backed away whenever I approached closer than 2-3 m. The tail was the least dog-like feature. The animal had been walking across the highway (usually quiet thereabouts on a weeknight) when we saw it, forcing us to brake quickly. The impression was healthy-lean. Story. They weighed 33 to 66 lbs. It became obvious to us that a colony of from 6 to 8 of these elusive creatures existed in the gully. In Tasmania, the Thylacine was most predominant along the north and east coast, and in the midland plains region. I was sitting there going "what was it?". The wild population of the large carnivorous . Then she found thatthe 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. So from that experience I do believe they are still knocking around.". *It's body was longer & out of proportion than all other animals. In 1957, a specimen was reportedly spotted from a helicopter. A senior veterinarian and former RSPCA president is quoted in the video as saying there is a 70 to 80 per cent chance the animal is a thylacine. "West of the Kanimbla-Megalong Valleys lies the Jenolan Road, where motorists and locals have been seeing tigers for generations. Numbats are closely related to the extinct Tasmanian Tiger. It was about 18 kg, fawn coloured short dense fur. Its tail was darker and it had short hair just like a roo. Generally, although dog-like, it was not Canid, because of the structure of the hind part of the body. The tigers, or thylacines, were. ", "2003, Stock Route Road, Billinudgel; Joan saw what looked like a thylacine. While Mr Waters says the larger animals in the photos - which he claims to be the mother and father - arent giving much away, he says the joey says it all. ", "In March 1982, a camper sighted a thylacine-like animal drinking from a creek in the Grose valleyThe camper described the animal he saw as being two metres long, with greyish body fur {coloration can vary} displaying about a dozen blackish stripes extending down the body. I am a geologist and had another geologist see it too. The animal had apparently appeared from out of nearby bush to stand under the street light. Theres no doubt in my mind it was a Thylacine, one without stripes (Tassie tigers were reported without stripes in the 1900s) Apparently they have up to a 40km range which they trek each month. An anonymous report made to REPAD by a male witness: "I was driving home from work along Freemans drive about 3km from Freeman's waterhole at approx. This was apparently the meal of the animal I had just seen. 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. The following short blog post was posted to the A.C.R.O. after a good few seonds it loped away. Before leaving they went for a walk along the rivers edge on a bush track. My brothers wife and I were in the front. While the unconfirmed sightings may fuel the hopes of some, the thylacine is still widely considered to be extinct. ", "Late 2007, New Brighton; Don was driving a bus with 8 passengers between 2 and 3am when they all observed a large unusual thylacine-like carnivore eating a small animal on the road, probably a bandicoot struck by an earlier vehicle near the speed bump. Robyn was driving near the Club House just before entering Cliff Drive, where a two, roofed house stands amid pine trees, on the corner opposite the golf course and beside a, when in the headlights glare they both saw a Thylacine, According to Robyn, the animal was as large as a, mewhat like a cat. It ran off into the vegetation adjacent the road.". A rough transcript of her report (1:32-3:09) is as follows: "I take people out into the rainforest with the night vision goggles, ummm, and we go looking for animals. Standing on the road, it stayed for about 40 seconds until Scott was within 40 m of it. The animal then snarled at us showing long pointed teeth, before disappearing into long grass. It moved on all four legs and had a tail similar to a wallaby. Victorian Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) Sighting Reports Reports from other states and countries can be accessed here. But this is no small feat. 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. Then Donna saw that its head was too large, it was too bulky in the forequarters, and the body tapered off in the hind quarters, the exact opposite of the body of a wallaby. After looking at the cars headlights, it suddenly ran off into the bush.". "In 1978, he was 7 or 8 at at the time and lived on a farm near Nundle NSW. Its body was sloped and the tail followed the slope. 7:30pm when in front of me on the side of the road, eating a dead kangaroo, was a medium/large long, slender dog shaped animal with a kangaroo-style tail. Known officially to science as a thylacine, the large marsupial predators, which looked more like wild dogs . They said that about five weeks before, on 27th November 1979, while photographing birds at Mount Mondilla, they found paw prints in mud that appeared to match those of the Thylacine. This time I was traveling with 2 friends at around 2.30am in the morning and we were driving through the middle of Loch Sport with the lights on high beam when we saw a thylacine, slightly larger than a fox cut across about 20 metres in front of the car. The head looked Alsatian-like but had shorter, thicker ears than a greyhound. She saw it a couple of times during the following days. It was illuminated by the headlights of my car approximately 20 m in front of me. The tail was thicker at the base than at the tip and was about 1ft in length. Join the conversation, you are commenting as. It had stripes that were not bold. The swamp is surrounded by dense scrub and situated at the foot of a deep gully encased by steep cliffs. The Tasmanian Tiger was a sandy brown-yellow and had dark stripes wrapped around its back. She didnt take her eyes off of me. Over the years we have kept the location of the swamp and gully a closely guarded secret, to give these marsupials an opportunity to increase their numbers, and keep away unwanted human interference. The fur was short, with a sandy beige colour. ", "The Minto Monster was back in the news again in 1973 when claims that a mysterious creature had been 'terrorising' East Minto residents with its blood curdling screams. He reported I can say that what I saw did not look like anything I have witnessed before. [January 1979 sighting by married couple at night], "1979, Tyagarah; David saw a strange thylacine-like animal and it reminded him of the Tyagarah Lion observations that people had talked about over the years.". Plaster casts were made and later matched with others found in Tasmania in 1974 whose peculiar paw structure identified them as thylacine. Therefore the tiger seen by Robyn Simon and Rebecca Jackson could only be a visitor to theKatoomba area, until it settles into a new habitat, perhaps with its mate if one is nearby, out on theNeck or back in Megalong Valley. He was certain that it was not a cat, fox or dog. So many people, local and others, came in to describe their sightings. It was about 5ft [1.53m] in length from head to tail, which, was stiff with no point. "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 . The animal seen on video is about a metre in length and about 50cm tall, which would be. It's also. The area is full of wombat burrows and many sandstone caves. "Further west beyond Blackheath lies the town of Mount Victoria, on the western edge of the Blue Mountains. Sometimes you just need to know when to let the squirrel win the day. * Im not sure I saw stripes across its back, but its colouring across the top of its rear 1/4 was darker than the rest. ", "15th February 2006, Hastings Point; Rose described a strange dog-like animal that she saw while driving to work in the morning. It appeared greyish-brown, with dark stripes on the hind quarters, but none occurred up front. Russel observed on two occasions in the same place, families of three very sleek thylacine-like animals with brown lion-like coloured fur, dark bands on the flanks, with long rigid tails held low to the ground, running through the bush. ", "February 2006, Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores; Rayleen saw a thylacine-like animal crossing the road. A short time after she saw the animal, while talking to her neighbours, she was surprised to find that three of them had also observed an animal of a similar description. All of these species went extinct millions of years ago except for the Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian Wolf, which persevered into modern times. Product Information. The tiger tracks were found in a hanging swamp area which was part of a rain forest on the south side of the mountain. The back and the hind legs looked more like a cat, its tan-coloured thick fur had an orange tinge in the sunlight and it had dark stripes across its back. The animal retreated into bush at the top of a gully.". Can you believe that? "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. They have been a source of intrigue since the last known Tasmanian tiger died in a Hobart zoo in 1936. With all due respect I disagree with Nick Mooneys opinion and thats fine - thats perfectly OK - and he encourages me in his report to get as many opinions as I can because his is only one opinion, Mr Waters says in the new video. Tasmanian tigers grew to between 39 and 51 inches, with a 20-inch tail. Another report given to Samantha came from a woman called Gail who worked at Durrumbul preschool and who had seen one crawl from beneath the preschool building and walk in a hopping way. Yet how did the animal get where it was seen? Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. The bands were about 2 cm wide & about 6 cm apart. ["Two animals of the hyena kind"]. Both were of a buff colour with distinctively rounded ears, hunched backs and remarkably long thin straight tails. Before colonisation, the Thylacine was not confined only to Tasmania. It looked like a cross between a dog and a kangaroo. They weighed up to 66 pounds. The final captive Tasmanian tiger was caught in the Florentine Valley in 1933 and transferred to the Hobart Zoo. Its body fur was a greyish-brown colour and the body stripes, a blackish-brown colour, when first observed, ran from the middle of the back onto the tail rump. Last February, two visitors claimed an animal with a "stiff tail and striped back" wandered in front of their car at Corinna in the island's west. "In February 1977, in the Kanimbla Valley north of Megalong, Mr Kevin Cummings was driving out of the valley one day when, as his vehicle passed a tall embankment, he saw ahead of him, what he immediately recognised to be a Thylacine, run across the dirt road he was on and up the embankment. Now plans are underfoot to bring back this thylacine and reintroduce it to Tassie. It stopped looked at us approaching then ran off in to the bushes. It occured roughly 30km from the first, some twenty years earlier. It had stripes and a thin tail stuck straight out. The discovery of the carcase in the area of Eucla, and my observation of the live specimen, convinces me that the animal still exists on the mainland of Australia.". We also found two unusual sets of tracks. The Tasmanian Tiger was in fact a marsupial rather than a big cat, and its proper name is the thylacine. It had a long thin tail about the length of its body. "In October 1995, Mr Bob Donaldson was driving friends to Blackheath from Katoomba around 1am. The animal moved in a way that I had never encountered before. He stated it had a tail like a roo, but not touching the ground. Trailing a Tiger. My other children and I heard the strange noise, but did not go out to investigate. The time was around midnight as they left the Country Club road into Cook Road, then turned into Banksia Road on their way home. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Sat 30 Nov 1811, p. 2. 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