Comments on: Thylacines and More

By: brittney m

brittney m — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:29:35 +0000

I hope thylacines are still out there. They’re awfully cute. I can’t tell much from the first footage shown, it’s really messed up. This actually is the first real footage I’ve seen of the taz tiger. All I’ve seen are photos.

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:47:11 +0000

“Ever heard of natural selection?”

Yes we have, Skeptic, but the rate of extinction has accelerated dramatically, almost extraordinarily so, since the 1600′s. The current rate of species extinction is estimated to be 100 to 1000 times the rate of “background” or average extinction rates across the rest of Earth’s evolutionary time scale.

For more recently extinct animals, I very much recommend the book “A Gap In Nature” by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten, from which I think a few of the images in the first clip were taken. They even mention a few cases of post-extinction sightings, making at least a few of them Cryptids, by definition.

Boy, that Hartebeest in the first video looks like it was interesting animal, I’d never heard of it before.

Anybody know what song that was in the first clip? I detected elements of Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor, a haunting funeral dirge of a song, if ever there was one, and long one of my favourites.

By: Terry W. Colvin

Terry W. Colvin — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:05:56 +0000

Oddly enough megafauna survived in Africa but died out in the Americas and elsewhere. Elephants, rhinos, musk oxen, etc. learned to avoid men or retreated to the more wild areas of Africa. The same can be said of the oceans. Man didn’t attack the oceans systematically through whaling and fishing until the last 200 years. That is why so many “new” marine species are found. I agree that smaller animals like the southern Asian tiger and even the thylacine have and could survive in wild areas.

By: skeptic

skeptic — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:18:54 +0000

It is sad that these animals have become extinct, but I disagree that it’s all man’s fault as suggested by some.

Extinction has been happening for millions of years and will continue to happen in the future. Ever heard of natural selection?

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:39:03 +0000

First film—Devastating.

Second film—My first thought was—it is a cat!!!
Then I looked at it closely two or three more times. Apparently the person who shot it is sure it is a thylacine. I’m not an expert on what a thylacine looks like but I want to believe-(yes, shoot me) and also I trust mystery_man. I will have to study pictures of the thylacine closer.

By: sausage1

sausage1 — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:56:40 +0000

Quite sad films, all those beautiful animals gone.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:34:27 +0000

Tbe dodo was killed off by rats, apparently, which ate the eggs. FWIW.

Has anyone heard of anything recent from that guy who was sure that thylacoleo was just hanging on in the southern tip of Australia?

By: YourPTR!

YourPTR! — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:31:37 +0000

Tasmania is a huge island, the 26th largest in the World and almost the size of Sri Lanka. It is very sparcely populated and is referred to as “One of the World’s last great wildernesses”. There are large areas that remain practically unexplored and densely forested. 37% of the island is contained within National Parks and World Heritage Sites. Something big could exist undetected in that kind of environment quite easily. Tasmania even has Bigfoot reports!

When a German tourist claimed to have photograph a living Thylacine in 2005, Nick Mooney of the Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service was reported as saying “It is possible the species could have remained undiscovered, living in small pockets in Tasmania’s most remote wilderness, as it was resilient to in-breeding.”

So who knows? It’s continued survival certainly cannot be ruled out! I don’t hold out much hope for the Dodo though.

By: CrimsonFox79

CrimsonFox79 — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:31:20 +0000

So sad
I really hope there are still thylacines out there. I really believe there are. And hopefully some of those other beautiful animals are found again someday. Humans have destroyed so much.

By: ITSACRYPTIDWORLDTOME

ITSACRYPTIDWORLDTOME — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:34:05 +0000

Hey,if the ?coleanth? can survive all those years, why not a thylacines?