Video: Could This Be A Thylacine?

Video: Could This Be A Thylacine?

I took a few screen caps from the video and posted. Not sure what to make of this but the movement of this animal is similar to archive footage I have seen.

From Murray McAllister: My April 2009 expedition has resulted in an edited 8 minute 50 seconds video footage of a Tasmanian Tiger which we are currently negotiating for television news release. This is a small snippet of the images obtained. In the near future we hope to obtain more conclusive video evidence of the thylacines continued existence.

I have only seen 9 Seconds..! Maybe Video Edited.. it can be a Dingo... for me is that not an evidence..
Also has Australia an secret Tasmanian Tiger breed project..

Thought I'd post the video in for you. It's definitely some interesting footage, I'm going to have a look at some videos of dingos just for comparison as suggested above. It does appear to have the raised hind quarter like the Tazmanian Tiger!

I just saw an article about this on Cryptomundo.
www.cryptomundo.com...

It also includes a video analysis of a supposed sighting in 1973.
Also on an another video includes it has clip from 1996.
Also theres a youtube video titled "Part 1 - Thylacine Animal X Mystery Unit, I have not watched it yet, it looks like an investigation show, ill probably watch it later.

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Well it seems quite large and it's tail is too long to be a dingo, could very possibly be a Thylacine!

Pretty sweet if it is!

Thylacine have a long, strong tail, almost like a kangaroo.
So does this critter in the video.

Pity it's not clearer, but the body shape sure looks like one.

The tail of the animal in the video looks a little 'bushy' for it to be a taz tiger. Im a firm believer in them still being around though, with the amount of people trying to prove its existence, maybe more positive evidence will surface soon.

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Its a really long tail for a dog too, as well as having the raised hind quarters. Great video. It may be a Tasmanian Tiger, and how great would that be to find out we didnt drive them extinct. Id say this is the most promising evidence I have seen yet.

I went to see some footage of Dingos running, as some have claimed, to compare the gaits of the two (or one).
Dingo running on the beach
Then I looked at some footage of a live Thylacine. Granted it is old and not really running but merely moving in a cage.
Thylacine Moving
Then I looked at the video in question.

Now, I would love to see a supposedly extinct animal proven not extinct. It would be great for the species and give humans the chance to do it right this time. But the gait, to my untrained eye, looks more consistent with the Dingo than the Thylacine. I will admit though, I am not fully convinced by my guess and I could be swayed the other way. I really hope it turns out to be the real deal.

It's tail does not really look like a dingo's tail. It's possible that is just because of the angle it was running towards the camera.

I'm interested in seeing as to how this one turns out.

I think it might be a Thylacine, and the creature probably survived in the vast wilderness of the Australian mainland.

On the other hand it might be this, which I saw on a Discovery documentary on the Chupacabra in Texas.
www.strangemag.com...

It had very long back-legs, and there is footage of a similar creature running.

From afar it looks like a Thylacine with a long snout, spindly tail and long hind-legs.

However it is hairless at a closer glance.
Some DNA testers said it was a coyote with mange.
However others disagree, stating that the specimens died hairless but otherwise healthy.
Other tests suggest a canine hybrid closer to domestic dogs, but not exactly the same.

It seems there is a new species of dog loose, that appears like the "marsupial wolf" in some ways.
If it occurs across continents some human hand is involved.

Originally posted by thewarehouse
Also has Australia an secret Tasmanian Tiger breed project..

There was an attempt a few years back at extracting viable DNA from a preserved thylacine foetus but the official word on that was it was too degraded. That particular foetus had been preserved in a non-standard medium which didn't break down the DNA as quickly as the normal methods but, alas, it had been waiting for far too long in a sealed jar on a museum shelf for technology to give it a chance.

I live in the tiger's homeland and there's a vast national park in the southwest (1/4 of the state) that's extremely rugged almost impenetrable bush and, if any have survived, that's where they could exist unseen for a hundred years or more. We still get the odd sighting reported in various parts of the state so hope is still there but fading as time goes on. The tiger's closest relative (the devil) is still around in good numbers but under serious threat from a facial tumor disease that's spreading through the population.

The mystery canine running.
Quite freaky when it turns its head.

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If you watch the video, you can see that it runs kinda weird -- sorta like a primate on four legs. To me, it looks like baboon or something because of the tail and long legs. It could have possibly escaped a zoo, someones home where it was kept as a pet, or black market trades.

But we can't eliminate the thylacine theory. It looks like the outline of a thylacine, however the video is very blurry, so we may never know.

Of all the cryto's possible out there, I've always thought the Thylacine will be found. I think the gait looks right, considering it was running in the open, and not just pacing in a cage. The tail also looks right, if a bit heavy. It's too bad that all the videos are such poor quality, and the one really good picture has been shown to probably be a hoax (it matches size and position of a known photo).

As to the chupacabra, I think it's a cross between the coyote and the xolo. It just might have taken a few generations for the hair and skin genes to express themselves enough to have a population of hairless, warty, crinkly, fugly canines out there. Here's a photo:

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Mind you this is a picture of purebred ugly dogs, so they are the nicer looking ones. Their full name is Xoloitzcuintle. I can't even begin to know how to pronounce that. And I'm sure they are lovely dogs, great pets, and know that beauty is only skin deep, etc. I prefer cute.

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The known hairless dog above certainly seems to form part of the "mystery canine" (chupacabra).
However the long snout from the video profile shot above, and the long ears seem very different.
As does the shorter, more compact body.
That long profile snout and ears reminds me more of hyenas, jackals or African wild-dogs (or indeed, the Thylacine).
The new American hybrid is obviously not a Thylacine.
However the same "hybrid" seen in Australia from afar may seem like a Thylacine.
A new (or undiscovered) hybrid species is just as mysterious as a real Thylacine, especially if occurs outside the Americas.

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The body looks about right (from what we can see), but the tail looks awful thick.

I cannot say for sure if it is or not. I would love for them to be alive still so that we could get some nice video of them. I have always though they were a rather beautiful creature. I would love to see a few other animals alive and well in population as well.

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This is more likely:

Earlier this year, Mr Mooney and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery's director, Bill Bleathman, were shown two digital images, said to have been taken by a German touring Tasmania.

Mr Mooney hears of thylacine sightings "about 10 times a year" but both men agreed the snaps probably did show a partially obscured Tasmanian tiger. Neither, however, was willing to say the pictures were genuine.

Even this newspaper cannot say beyond a doubt that the pictures are of a live animal. The Herald and its sister paper, The Age, ran extensive tests on the pictures after being offered them three weeks ago. These included an examination by thylacine experts and an independent photographic specialist but the results did not conclusively show a live tiger, and we declined to buy the pictures.

From this thread:

www.abovetopsecret.com...

It looks almost like a mongoose to me or something similar. Has the video been sped up?