People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct

There have been reported sightings my whole life ever since I can remember, and I was born here in Australia in the 1980s.<p>While I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s impossible, I&#x27;m not sure what&#x27;s new here except the fact that almost everyone now carries a camera yet we&#x27;re still to get clear images ;)

I remember driving through the mountains of Tasmania about 20 years ago - some backwater road towards Zeehan if memory serves me correctly. I recall looking in my rear view mirror during one stretch and seeing a yellow&#x2F;tan coloured dog like creature crossing the road a few hundred metres behind the car.<p>I couldn&#x27;t see any stripes clearly in the 2 seconds in was in the mirror. I dismissed it as a dog because (a) it was daylight and Thylacine&#x27;s are purported to be nocturnal (b) it was near reasonably trafficked road and they are known to be shy and (c) I don&#x27;t think the population of the Tassie Tiger was very strong in the North Western part of the island where I was.<p>But what if?? &lt;thinking face emoji&gt;

&quot;One report last February said that two people, visiting Tasmania from Australia,&quot;<p>...from &quot;mainland&quot; Australia perhaps.<p>&quot;newly released Australian government documents&quot;<p>...aren&#x27;t from the federal government, but from the Tasmanian state government.<p>These &quot;detailed&quot; sightings are almost universally worthless.

&gt; One report last February said that two people, visiting Tasmania from Australia,<p>Haha, Tasmania is a state of Australia and they are a little sensitive about slips of the tongue implying Australia is a separate place to them.

Someday, when every man, woman, and child carries a camera, we will get a picture of this illusive creature. Someday.

People also report sightings of bigfoot, aliens, ghosts. I&#x27;d love for them to not be extinct but reported sightings aren&#x27;t even close to enough to go off of.

I&#x27;m surprised that they don&#x27;t try to set up few dozens photo-traps in the area, in Europe it works quite well for proving re-emergence of wolves in areas where they were not seen for hundred years.

There have long been reported sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, and they&#x27;re mostly not very credible.<p>The New Yorker had an outstanding article about the small group of people who think it might have survived: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;02&#x2F;the-obsessive-search-for-the-tasmanian-tiger" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;02&#x2F;the-obsessive-...</a><p>They&#x27;re sort of like big foot hunters, except the animal they&#x27;re looking for used to exist.

People have been reporting sightings for decades - almost since the last known one died.<p>Similar for Moas in NZ.<p>Or Bigfoot, Loch Ness monster.<p>Hearsay of sightings should not be news. Quality video evidence is the only thing that should get to a news site.

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Not interesting until the frequency of &#x27;spotting dog looking like a Tasmanian tiger&#x27; is estimated, and compared with the frequency of current &#x27;tiger&#x27; sightings. Otherwise, what&#x27;s being talked about?

I really wish articles like this weren&#x27;t published since they&#x27;re basically a call for poachers.

Is always reported but never caught

This is very exciting news. The Coelacanth was also extinct - for several hundred million years - until it wasn&#x27;t.<p>Maybe Tasmanian tiger this year and Mokele-mbembe next year? Not impossible. Though unlikely.

Could be dogs or foxes easily also

&quot;Life will find a way&quot;

Pics or it didn&#x27;t happen.

No bones, no story.