In a nutshell it's absolutely impossible.
Genetically incompatible to that degree?
Interesting. I mean it does look plausible as a Tasmanian Tiger as positioned in the image. Though with its head facing us like that it's impossible to say whether it has the facial profile we'd be looking for.
One thought though. Is it implausible at this point that Thylacines may have cross-bred with another marsupial - either at some point in the distant past (before being declared extinct) or through a small number of survivors in generations after that point.
What I mean is, when we see modern sightings like this, is what we are seeing truly a 'Tasmanian Tiger' or another cross-bred creature, which has inherited markings or body shape from having a thylacine as an ancestor?
Genetically incompatible to that degree?
We have a gentleman here who's surname is Waters who believes that mainland Thylacines are extant. and have altered genetically in 4,000 years in response to their environment.
I doubt it. To paraphrase Monty Python - The mainland Thylacine is not pining for the Fjords...it is bereft of life, it rests in peace, It's metabolic processes are now history! It's kicked the bucket, It's shuffled off its mortal coil...it is deceased.
We have a gentleman here who's surname is Waters who believes that mainland Thylacines are extant. and have altered genetically in 4,000 years in response to their environment.
I doubt it. To paraphrase Monty Python - The mainland Thylacine is not pining for the Fjords...it is bereft of life, it rests in peace, It's metabolic processes are now history! It's kicked the bucket, It's shuffled off its mortal coil...it is deceased.
I could tell some stories about that one, but I won't.
Oh yes. He's stayed away from me personally but he's done his weird stuff with friends of mine.You too Oldrover?
What am I missing here?
A parks ranger insisted he had spotted thylacines a few years ago and gave a detailed, and convincing, description of what he had seen - only to recant the story at a later press conference, flanked by his superiors.
I can't recall if this story was already covered here, sorry if it was .https://www.newscientist.com/articl...Fncp5w4h47W6fBTSuMa6gg2S40#Echobox=1564396060
More details on that sighting were included here:
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2016/09/thylacines-survived-into-the-1940s/
Not that sighting. First let me say that I can't find the original quote, but I'm not sure where the idea of a Parks and Wildlife employee retracting his story flanked by superiors comers from, it doesn't appear to be Tasmania.
(C) The Independent '19Eight reported sightings of a creature believed to be extinct are forcing experts to wonder whether it could still be alive.
The Tasmanian tiger, a large striped marsupial carnivore with almost Loch Ness Monster status Down Under, was thought to have died out in 1936, when the last one known died in captivity.
But newly released Australian government documents show sightings have been reported as recently as two months ago.
The species, officially called a thylacine, resembled a cross between a large cat, a fox and a wolf. It had yellowish brown fur, powerful jaws and a pouch for its young like a kangaroo.
Among eight sightings in the past three years was one from a couple from Western Australia visiting the island of Tasmania in February, who said they saw one of the creatures crossing the road.
That article is paywalled.I have many years of experience with media types. Journalists are the worst people i have ever met, serial liars with no backbone they are not interested in truth just the story they want to push. One woman who worked in Tasmania was the worst i ever met. Despite my insistence that i had never search for bigfoot, she persisted in calling me a bigfoot hunter. Another guy, whom i was thankfully not involved with asked my friends if he could come along to cover a thylacine expedition. He begged them not to camp in the forest or go too far in because he couldn't cope and was worried about his camera. My friends took a 200 mile round trip to collect him and they stayed in a lodge rather than in the forest as he had requested. When he wrote up the story he made it out that they not on a real expedition as they did not go deep into the forest or camp out! Any chance these vermin will get they will screw you over.
And her we have an article written with an overweening arrogance and pomposity by someone who has never been in deep wilderness. He pompously dismissed eyewitness sightings but his alternatives stretch credibility to breaking point. Extreme scepticism seems to have gather a stupid mystique these days so much so that we may never solve a single fortean riddle if we carry on down that road.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/co...QuvI9mHvCz5BKJ3O-MDAQ3UO8nFpW6JDH-RWRQHPlTCV4
That article is paywalled.
Nope, just tried it again. You were lucky!I read it without paying ok
Man buys land were Tasmanian wolves have been seen, in order to search for them.
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019...tigers-allegedly-live-and-plans-to-find-them/