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The Zanzibar leopard was recently re-discovered. Zanzibar is much smaller than Tasmania with a much larger human population.
True, but the Zanzibar leopard had only been considered extinct since the 90s.
 
It happens on our overpopulated island, too.

2006: A cryptozoologist in Devon is widely ridiculed for suggesting the pine marten is still present in the county and the wider South of England despite being presumed 'functionally extinct' in England:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smaller-Mystery-Carnivores-Westcountry/dp/1905723059

2016: Pine martens found in Devon:

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/pine-marten-devon-rare-found-3009872

... and not just Devon:

https://www.forestryengland.uk/blog/the-return-pine-martens-englands-forests
 
De-extinction: scientists are planning the multimillion-dollar resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger.[url]

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The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, is the second undertaking by Colossal, a Texas-based biotechnology “de-extinction” company that last year announced it planned to use genetic engineering techniques to recreate the woolly mammoth and return it to the Arctic tundra.


Its new project is a partnership with the University of Melbourne, which earlier this year received a $5m philanthropic gift to open a thylacine genetic restoration lab. The lab’s team has previously sequenced the genome of a juvenile specimen held by Museums Victoria, providing what its leader, Prof Andrew Pask, called “a complete blueprint on how to essentially build a thylacine”.
(C) The Guardian. '22.
 
It happens on our overpopulated island, too.

2006: A cryptozoologist in Devon is widely ridiculed for suggesting the pine marten is still present in the county and the wider South of England despite being presumed 'functionally extinct' in England:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smaller-Mystery-Carnivores-Westcountry/dp/1905723059

2016: Pine martens found in Devon:

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/pine-marten-devon-rare-found-3009872

... and not just Devon:

https://www.forestryengland.uk/blog/the-return-pine-martens-englands-forests

Endangered pine marten spotted in London for the first time

Pine-marten-camera-trip-image-EDIT2.-ZSL-2a62946.jpg


https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/e...ed-in-london-for-the-first-time-in-100-years/

maximus otter

 
Extinct Tasmanian Tigers May Have Survived Longer Than Previously Thought

For decades, biologists have believed that the last surviving Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, died in captivity in a Tasmania zoo in 1936.

But the striped, dog-like marsupials may have persisted for decades longer, according to a new paper published last month in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

Scientists analyzed 1,237 reports of Tasmanian tiger sightings from 1910 to 2019, taking care to assign each instance a rating for credibility and reliability. Vague accounts from tourists or hikers who were not very familiar with thylacines often earned lower credibility ratings. Observations by former trappers or biologists tended to get rated higher.

From the data, the scientists created a statistical model that determined thylacines may have actually died off between the 1940s and 1970s, with a small chance that they existed up to the early 2000s.

There’s even a “tiny possibility” that thylacines still inhabit Tasmania today.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...ved-longer-than-previously-thought-180981958/

maximus otter
 
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