THYLACINE JOEY PHOTO Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2021-02-28 | Neil Waters, President of the Thylacine Awareness Group Of Australia, presents three photos of what he believes are thylacines. Neil talks about Nick Mooneys' response and he interviews cat, dog and native wildlife experts. The names of the experts have been withheld to protect them from the ensuing shit storm. These photos are not fake, this is not a hoax, our experts are real people, not actors. The photos have been lightly treated for colour correction and the subjects' surroundings have been mildly blurred to improve viewing.Make up your own mind. Thankyou to the members and followers of TAGOA for their support.COPYRIGHT © WATERS MAGUIRE 2021
*New* Thylacine sighting, 09/07 2023, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-07-12 | Last Sunday we had 2 Thylacine sightings on mainland Australia, one in South Australia at 9.30am, and one in Kakadu National Park in Northern Territory at 5.30pm with the young woman in this interview, Jessica. She is currently travelling Australia with her 2 dogs in her van and has seen many dingo's in her travels, but this animal was different...
Thylacine sighting, Williamstown, South Australia, 24/05/23 with Tom. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-07-11 | Tom recounts his story he told to Mark Taylor back in May this year when he spotted a Thylacine cross the road in front of his car early in the morning on the way to work. TAGOA is currently investigating Tom's area with thermal imagery and trail camera's in hope of getting a clear video. TAGOA recently camped out on Tom's property and recorded some audio of what we believe to be Thylacine's yipping and also another new unusual audio bite.
Thylacine sighting TODAY, 9/07/2023, Riverland, South Australia 9.30am. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-07-09 | A man I have know for several years rang me today to tell me he had seen a Thylacine near Ponde in South Australia whilst taking a wee break...
Thylacine sighting, Yumali, South Australia 1974 with Robin. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-06-26 | Robin recalls an unusual animal seen on the family property when she was about 16 years old, she describes a Thylacine but recalls an animal that used to be on display in the Keith Hotel back in the day...
Thylacoleo/ Marsupial Lion sighting central Victoria with Nicky. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-06-12 | Nicky describes a very unusual animal she sighted in countryside in central Victoria one afternoon whilst out fossicking for gold only a short time ago...
Thylacoleo carnifex / Marsupial Lion sighting, 1980s South East South Australia, 2 x witnesses. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-06-10 | Thylacoleo sighting's are a lot more common than what people may think. This particular sighting is from the 1980's when a large unknown beast was caught in a rabbit trap and was not very friendly as a result. This was a farmer and his son together out checking their traps at the time.
Thylacine sighting 2012, Port Macquarie area, NSW with Jasmine. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-06-07 | Jasmine, a station hand/hunter, recalls her encounter from 2012 with her father on a property they lived on back inland from the Port Macquarie area in NSW.
Thylacine sighting Gympie area, Queensland 1980s Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-06-07 | Jane Doe, recalls her personal secret of seeing a Thylacine when travelling with her husband in Queensland in the Sunshine coast hinterland in the 1980's. She reveals in this interview how she has kept her sighting to herself for all of these years...
Thylacine sighting, Central Highlands, Tasmania, 1998 with 2x witnesses, with Martin. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-03-30 | In 1998, 2 men travelling down a bush road in the Tasmanian Highlands had an extremely solid sighting of a Thylacine in broad daylight for a considerable amount of time. So good was their sighting, that according to witness Martin Corkill, Nick Mooney rated it as one of the best he had heard of at the time...Here is Martins account of what happened 25 years ago...Please note: None of the images in this clip are from Martin's sighting area.
Neil Talks to Dan & Christie from Mix 100.9 radio Hobart about the Brooks Thylacine sightings paper. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-03-28 | Neil Waters has a quick chat regarding the latest comprehensive scientific publication that states the Thylacine was alive in the 1980's and may very well still be extant today due to the sheer volume of sightings across it's former range in Tasmania.
Trail camera update from round 10. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-03-10 | A bit of an update on the trail camera sponsorship programme and some other interesting shots from the thermal monocular from in the field, as well as some prey kills from a local predator. Plus, some comparison footage of a juvenile Paddymelon especially for Fowest Gimp and Cookie Crumb, from TAGOA with Lurve XXX
Thylacine sighting, Bridgetown, Western Australia Dec 5th 2022 with 3 x witnesses. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-03-08 | Recently, I spoke to Kym who was in a car travelling to Bridgetown SW Western Australia late one afternoon with 2 other people when they all saw a Thylacine run across the rd and disappear into some blackberries. All 3 witnesses were certain of what they had seen. They were so close to it that they had to hit the brakes to avoid hitting it. This happened on December 5th just passed and was the last reported sighting for WA last year taking the total amount of sightings reported for that state last year to 6.
Thylacine Thermal Imagery scale enhancement. Clean video edit. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-03-03 | The morning I filmed this animal it was really thick fog. This has made scale comparisons very difficult due to lack of background detail to line up imagery with. I am very confident that I have placed the person in the foreground over the correct piece of background so to give depth and accuracy to the overlay of the man near the spot the animal was standing. As I said in the previous clip, the animal was around 10-15m from where the man was standing. this means that if he was standing right along side the animal, it would appear to be even bigger. It is simply too big to be a Tiger Quoll because it is at least 600mm high at the hips and I know of no Quoll on record that is that tall. This animal is a THYLACINE. This version has minimal wording and obstruction to make it easier for people to make their own judgements on what was captured in the film.
Thylacine footage analysis, NE Tasmania 2023. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-02-28 | This is an update regarding size/height/length of the animal caught on thermal camera 4 weeks ago in NE Tasmania. There is simply no room for skeptics and disbelief in regards to this clip. You would have to be seriously in denial with this footage. The animal is at least 600mm high at the hips and way too long in the tail and neck to be a Tiger Quoll and it certainly is not a Tasmanian Devil. So what is it going to take to get one zoologist or biologist out of their office and in the field to study and protect these animals properly ? The entire joke that is gene sequencing, ( to build a Thylacine in a petri dish ), is just an embarrassment to Biology and Zoology when there is no denying that the Thylacine is not extinct. How much corruption of good science do we have to endure before someone in authority actually makes an effort to investigate these sightings and the evidence TAGOA continually gathers from all over Australia ? How many more millions of dollars has to be wasted before our precious Thylacine gets the proper protection and recognition it deserves ? I'm not making ANY apologies when I say Dr Michael Archer got it 100% WRONG when he wrote the paper for the Thylacine's extinction and wrote it off without any proper investigation. It is simply extant and the IUCN in the U.K. need to pull their finger out and re-assess his flimsy "paper" on it's extinction and consider the evidence.
Thylacine sighting, Northern NSW 05/02/2023....with Craig. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-02-17 | And here we have our 1st sighting for the year, this time it is in NSW instead of the usual Vic or SA, where we do have plenty of sightings every year.12 days ago Craig was Fly fishing in the middle of a stream in the Hinterland of the Byron Bay area when a Thylacine ambled out of the understorey on the bank about 10-12 metres from where Craig was fishing. This is his account of what he encountered...
Interview with Glen Reberger about his Thylacine sighting(s) in Queensland Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-02-12 | Check out Glens video of a possible Thylacine and his incredible Yowie evidence here:youtube.com/watch?v=FAiPEdVc4T8Glen is a country raised fella from NSW who resides on the Sunshine coast with his family in QLD. Glen and his wife Caroline had a very solid sighting in broad daylight of a Thylacine in 2019. Glen also researches Yowies in a few locations and has some impressive evidence of their prints and structures they create in the bushland. Whilst filming with Glen and Caroline last week I personally witnessed rocks being thrown at us by the bush in the location in this clip. I do not research Yowies or big cats because I have enough on my plate dealing with Thylacine's but I am firmly convinced that what ever it was that was throwing the rocks at us, was not a person that we could see or hear. It was bizarre to say the least. Glen has some great print evidence of Thyla's and Yowies and I hope you enjoy hearing his once skeptical mind recount his experiences for you here.
Thylacine encounters(s), SE Gippsland, 1970s, Defending its young, with Jillian. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-01-28 | Jillian recounts 2 separate stories of Thylacine sightings from the Sale area in the 1970's. Evidence lost of it's continued mainland existence and a sad story of how things can go horribly bad when wild animals defend their young and prey...
Tiger Quoll or Thylacine...? Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-01-21 | Recently TAGOA held a funding drive to raise money for some thermal imaging equipment. This morning I caught this rather intriguing animal in a field in the NE of Tasmania on one of our fantastic Thermal monocular's purchased with the funds we raised on our Fund my cause campaign. A very special thank you to all of the people who donated and to Wonthaggi Optical for their assistance in securing the purchase of the equipment and the monopods they donated.
Three x Thylacine sightings, NE Tasmania with Ian. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-01-17 | Ian recalls his encounters with Thylacine's on a property in NE Tasmania dating back to the 1970's.
Thylacine sighting, SE Gippsland Victoria, 1960s with Jane Doe... Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-01-14 | Jane a well versed country girl, spots a Thylacine up ahead of her in a paddock whilst riding her horse on a friends rural property near Wilson's Promontory in Victoria in the late 1960's. She not only saw it from behind, with stripes, but followed it for a good couple of hundred metres as it ran through a cleared paddock in full view.
Thylacine sighting....? Strange noises and animals with Golden eyes.... Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-01-03 | Barbara, a long term Riverland resident in South Australia, recounts some unusual eyes in the dark and weird noises she has had occur on her property over a 30 year period.
Thylacine sighting, NSW, Katoomba 1990s with Glen. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2023-01-01 | Glen recalls a very solid up close sighting he had at a sports area near Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, NSW in the 1990's.
Thylacine sighting, Orange, New South Wales, with Glen. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-12-16 | Whilst driving to work early in the morning, Glen sees an animal walking across the road ahead. Upon getting closer to it, the animal leans back on it's haunches and then leaps, like a Kangaroo, up a steep embankment. Walks on all 4's, then leaps 10 feet up an embankment, not a dog or a fox, that's for certain....
Wombat Joey rescue from a roadkill female. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-12-15 | In my travels today, I discovered a road kill female Wombat on a dirt road with a large Joey in the pouch, still alive. Off to Norma Baker we went to hand over the task of removing the Joey from the pouch, and to leave the Joey in her expert care for re-hab and eventual release back into the wild.To be continued...
Thylacine sighting (s) , and pelts, 1960s, Murraylands, South Australia with G Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-12-12 | "G" , a lady who has been on the land for many many years, recalls some interesting encounters she had with an old fur trapper back in the 1960's in the Murray river region. She distinctly remembers sleeping under a rug made from skins, and the 3 skins in the middle of the rug that were striped...
Thylacine sighting...?, Pinaroo South Australia with Graham. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-12-11 | Graham, a Farmer and Hunter with many years experience on the land witnesses an animal from the tractor and recalls his encounter.
Thylacine factory... Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-12-07 | What is the truth of all this Gene editing garbage...
Thylacine sighting(s), South Gippsland with Tracey. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-11-30 | Tracey, a dairy worker at the time, has had a couple of sightings of what she could only describe as a Thylacine whilst travelling to work in the Gippsland region...
*WARNING* Graphic visuals. Interview with Laura, a veterinary nurse from Western Australia. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-11-24 | It has been wrongly stated and published in a flimsy "scientific" cough, cough, paper, that Thylacine's have a weak jaw and therefore only ate small prey. This ridiculous assertion was made by Maria Attard in her extremely well funded paper on Thylacine jaw strength, made possible through her mentor, Dr Michael Archer, there's that name AGAIN...Maria's paper has never been peer reviewed and flies against all the research on mammals conducted by the Smithsonian Institute, for decades, on mammals both current and extinct and the strength of their jaws and what they hunted and ate/eat. Laura's testimony in this interview, backs up TAGOA's and many other's claims that all of these headless kangaroo's and other animals we find with their heads missing from all over Australia, are in fact being killed by a large Marsupial predator, likely Thylacine.Laura witnessed a Thylacine round up sheep, attack one and remove it's head and retreat back into the bushland it ventured out from. Here is her account of that very frightening day...
Thylacine sighting 7/11/2022 Tailem Bend South Australia with Kane & Daniel. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-11-20 | In June this year Kane and his wife saw a Thylacine in the Adelaide hills near Echunga one evening on their way home. Only 2 weeks ago Kane AGAIN saw a Thylacine, only this time he was with a work colleague Daniel who also believes the animal was not a fox or dog and that it had stripes!!!Here is both of their independent eye witness accounts. Interestingly, some of the details regarding distance and what occurred sequentially differs to a degree. However, they are both adamant regarding what species of animal they had just seen on their way to Meningee that day...
Thylacine sighting October 2022 , far north Queensland, with Ken. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-11-19 | Far from extinct, the Thylacine keeps popping it's head up all over Australia. This time it was seen only a few weeks ago in far north Queensland by chance as a man was driving through Steve Irwin Reserve of all places.Maybe Steve knew more than he let on...
A bizarre Wolf like animal from the Czech Republic, and an equally bizarre creature from the U.K. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-10-21 | A lady from Poland sent me this video of a bizarre looking Wolf like animal the other day. The animal was filmed in the Czech Republic from what appears to be a kitchen window vantage point next to a cropped field in the Nachodsko district. The other strange creature is from the U.K. and it is believed it haunts the internet, Papua New Guinea and the Moors area in a Boggy Marsh...
Neil chats with Pete, Matt and Kymbas breakfast radio show on Mix94.5 fm in Perth about Thylacines Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-10-19 | Yesterday, I had a great chat to the crew on Mix 94.5 Breakfast radio show in Perth regarding the Nannup Tiger and the sheer volume of Thylacine sightings right across Australia. Sooner or later this animal will be proved to exist and it will become so very obvious how incompetent our Govt's collectively are, and how B Grade the "science" was that had the Thylacine written off was, so that geeks could experiment on Numbats and Dunnarts and feed their ego's and try to play god....Gene manipulation is not cloning and it is all about owning patented creatures and selling tickets to see them...
A visit to a fur trappers hut, plus Daves sighting from 2018, plus a potential Thylacine prey... Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-10-17 | WARNING, Graphic images of a deceased Wallaby. In 2020, I met a tree farmer/forester Dave who had many an interesting story to tell of not only his Thylacine sighting, but others as well. From that we struck up a friendship which resulted in me getting a tour of some interesting country where not only Dave had his sighting, but the bygone era of fur trapping was still evident with an old abandoned hut that was showing us all the signs of the past and the skills and characters that disappeared with those years.
Interview with Wally Davies part 3, final. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-10-16 | Watkin "Wally" Davies final few words before we stopped for lunch. After lunch we didn't get back to interviewing because he was tired and not feeling 100%. It was a pleasure to know him and hear his stories from a bygone era in Australia's history. Over the next 2 years, Wally told me many other stories from his life, but they were personal and I was just happy to hang out with him and help him out a bit around the place and I never got any of those stories on camera. R.I.P. Wally...Matey.
Interview with Watkin Wally Davies, part 2, 2016 Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-10-16 | Apologies for the poor audio quality. Wally continues to reflect on his old stories of big cats and other creatures.
Thylacine sighting(s) NSW, 2002-2007 with Sandy. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-10-15 | Sandy recounts her story to me of when she was living in NSW 20 years ago and had not one, but several encounters, ( and not always on her own ), with 2 different Thylacine's in the area she was living out past Goulburn in the Great Dividing Range between Canberra and Wollongong in New South Wales.
Interview with Watkin Wally Davies, AKA The Bush Cat, 2016. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-10-14 | R.I.P. Watkin Davies, 14-05-1927 - 25-05-2018.Way back in 2015, people online kept telling me I had to try and chat to Wally Davies regarding Thylacine's, Big Cats & Thylacoleo sightings. Only trouble was, Wally had suffered a stroke and was offline recovering from it. The thing that kept me trying was he was in South Australia and so was I, so it shouldn't be too hard to find him. Then in 2016, somebody online had heard from him and I was fortunate enough to get his number and give him a call.This is the 1st video interview I ever conducted and the sound quality isn't great but it is a privilege to share it with you and keep his memory alive.From that conversation, I was able to drive to Port Pirie where he now lived, and started to build a friendship with him that was full of great stories from Wally's lifetime of living and working out bush in both South Australia & Victoria, where Wally was born.Wally was a bit of a scallywag in his younger days, working for the Railways & Highways Departments before settling in Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges in SA and finally, in Port Pirie where he and his wife Rose were for his remaining time.His encounters with Australia's wildlife and his stories of his life are in his words and this clip is one of several I will be publishing for his family, some of whom I met at his 90th birthday in 2017.I was thrilled to bits to meet him and I will always miss our chats on the phone and him asking me, "When are you coming up again Matey..?"R.I.P Wally.
Thylacine footprint (spoor) evidence video part 1 Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-10-01 | Much secrecy and debate has been created by the Tasmanian Museum's reluctance to present Dr Eric Guiler's 10 verified Thylacine print casts he collected from Woolnorth Station in NW Tasmania in 1962, that they have stored away in their collection. Nick Mooney's "theory" on the size and physical attributes that Thylacine feet present in the field, is in doubt and likely flawed due to his reliance on deceased, poorly preserved Museum specimens as a reliable representation of what exactly a Thylacine's foot impression looks like. This is part 1 of a 2 part video series that will go into great detail to explain Nick's theory, and present an overwhelming amount of consistent evidence collected by TAGOA and it's members from right across Australia...
Thylacine sighting 1999, Nannup Highway, Jarrahwood Western Australia, with Otto Dirk. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-09-17 | Apologies for the feedback in the audio, my bad, but Otto's sighting and info is still quite solid and legitimate. Otto had a place in the bush at Nannup 20 or so years ago and often heard strange noises at night, but one night he saw a Thylacine on the way home and has never forgotten it since...
Update on our funding campaign for thermal equipment and more... Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-09-15 | **Help us help get the Thylacine re-classified as an endangered species**Click on the link below to donate...https://www.mycause.com.au/p/289248/tagoas-thermal-monocular-fundraising-campaignMark Taylor runs through the new thermal imaging monocular made available thanks to the 84 people who have donated to our funding campaign so far. Then we venture off to Tassie to see some local birds, a huge waterfall and some ancient forests.We are well on the way to our fund raising target and have already purchased the 1st of our thermal monoculars thanks to the many great supporters we have out there. Cheers.
Thylacine sighting 29/08/22, Perth foothills, Western Australia with Kerry. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-09-14 | Both Kerry and her sister witnessed a large Thylacine only 2 weeks ago. There was also a sighting the day before 3 hours north of Perth. How idiotic is the Zoology field of experts in this country when they can't get off their arses and investigate any of these hundreds and thousands of sightings all over Australia. There is a massive resistance in this country of epic proportions for things to remain extinct so it can be raped and pillaged by industry.... SHAME SHAME SHAME.
Thylacine sighting, 3 Springs, Western Australia, 28/08/22 with Pixie. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-09-10 | Interview with Thylacine witness Pixie who saw a large Thylacine crossing the rd whilst travelling with a friend on 28/08/22 at 3.00pm one Sunday afternoon some 3 hours north of Perth, Western Australia. Apologies for a technical hiccup which resulted in me losing the 1st half of the interview.
The extinction of the Thylacine and the gene editing hooha... Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-09-10 | What went wrong, why was the Thylacine declared extinct when it was verified by a qualified Park Ranger in 1982 to be extant...? Why did science fail to properly investigate this and other sightings ? Arrogance, Ego, Reputation, probably all of those factors and a few $$$...
Thylacine sighting (s) SW WA, 1980s Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-09-03 | Michael relays his mum's stories of Thylacine's near their farm in the 19080's.
Thylacine sighting Latrobe Valley, Victoria, 2009 Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-09-03 | "K" tells of her sighting from 2009 when her and her husband saw a Thylacine in broad daylight one morning on the way to church...
Thylacine sighting, winter 1999, SE QLD with Scott. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-09-03 | Scott recalls a Thylacine sighting he had during winter of 1999 in SE QLD.
Thylacine sighting 13/08/22 Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-08-24 | 2 walkers in Belair National Park witness an unusual large Thylacine like animal and observe it for several minutes in broad daylight in a prominent National Park, and yes there are well over a dozen sightings in the area in the last few years.
Thylacine cloning LIE. Mutated Dunnarts are not THYLACINEs... Gene Editing is NOT CLONING!!!! Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-08-23 | theconversation.com/weve-decoded-the-numbat-genome-and-it-could-bring-the-thylacines-resurrection-a-step-closer-176528https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-17/thylacine-babies-in-10-years-genetic-engineering-team-says/101333144?sf259679065=1"The ultimate goal of this project is not to just bring back the thylacine, but to get to a point where it can be put back into its natural environment in Tasmania," University of Melbourne Professor Andrew Pask said. Colossal, which lists Australian actors Chris and Liam Hemsworth as "like-minded impact investors", says its "landmark de-extinction project" is the "resurrection" of the woolly mammoth."Or more specifically, a cold-resistant elephant with all of the core biological traits of the woolly mammoth," the company states on its website. IN OTHER WORDS NOT A CLONE BUT A MUTATTED ELEPHANT.In a statement, Colossal chief executive, tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm, said "we take DNA from existing species that are the closest relatives, in the case of the thylacine it's the fat-tailed dunnart".WRONG, THE CLOSEST LIVING RELATIVE OF THE THYLACINE IS A NUMBAT.Dr Pask said once that is understood, "we go into the cells and start making edits … and essentially engineer a dunnart cell into an thylacine cell".PASK IS ADMITTING THEY ARE NOT CLONING THYLACINE'S..."We can then use reproductive technologies such as IVF to turn the cell into a whole living organism." "Thylacines give birth to babies that are not much bigger than a grain of rice, so growing the embryo in a test-tube or through a surrogate is much less challenging [for us] for a marsupial than a mammoth," Dr Pask said. "We think the dunnart could give birth to a baby thylacine and once they are born, you can rear these animals on milk by recreating that artificial pouch environment". washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/26/australia-thylacine-tasmanian-tiger-extinct"The tiny creature seems an unlikely candidate for closest living relative of an apex predator. But it could be key to bringing the thylacine — also called the Tasmanian tiger — back from extinction." WRONG AGAIN.“I love Jurassic Park!” he said. “I love it.” He keeps a boxed figurine of John Hammond, the character in the 1993 film who creates the ill-fated park for de-extincted dinosaurs, in his office.“Absolutely. What they’re proposing to do, can be done. What isn’t clear to anybody yet is: What exactly will result from it? Because it will never be a pure thylacine.”It would be a part-dunnart, part-thylacine hybrid. “I don’t know whether it’s going to be 99 percent thylacine or 99.99 percent thylacine or 78 percent thylacine,” Pask said. “We will be able to bring back something.”DOESN'T SOUND SO FULL OF HYPE WHEN YOU SEE THE REAL QUOTES“There's a lot of power in this technology,” Pask said. “And it's stuff we just don't even have the basics figured out for marsupials yet, but we'll do it in this project.” SOUNDS LIKE A POWER TRIP TO MECam Walker, a spokesman for Friends of the Earth Australia, says gene editing introduces new risks to ecosystems when people should be focused on preserving the natural world.“We do not support gene editing in conservation,” he said. “The entire process involves many random events whose end results cannot be predicted.” HMM, NOT EVERYONE AGREES WITH MEDIA HYPEscientificamerican.com/article/de-extinction-company-aims-to-resurrect-the-tasmanian-tigerIn March his team established the Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research Lab with a philanthropic gift of five million Australian dollars (about $3.6 million). Colossal is providing “more than that” sum, Pask says—he won’t divulge exactly how much—as well as access to equipment, another dedicated thylacine lab in Texas and a large team of researchers.THIS NEXT QUOTE CRACKS ME UP:With this partnership established, Pask now says it’s reasonable to expect to have “a de-extincted thylacine-ish thing” in a decade. That first iteration might be “90 percent thylacine,” he says, though the ultimate goal is more like 99.9 percent. Eventually—after many years of monitoring the engineered animals in a large enclosed area—Colossal’s goal is to release a viable, genetically-diverse population of perhaps 100 proxy thylacines into the wild.Next the researchers will compare the genome of the thylacine to that of one of its closest living relatives: the fat-tailed dunnart, a mouse-sized marsupial that is relatively abundant and copes well in captivity. Using CRISPR gene-editing technology, the scientists will engineer the dunnart’s genome to more closely resemble the thylacine’s.“There is absolutely no way I would have the millions that I have now for marsupial conservation if I [wasn’t] trying to bring the Tasmanian tiger back,” he says. “The whole discourse is about bringing this animal back, but the welfare of the individual animals isn’t really talked about,”
Trail Camera update, round 9. Wombats, Quolls, Devils and another 4 legged marsupial... Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc. 2022-08-21 | Round 9 of TAGOA's Trail Camera survey retrieval with a few ongoing troubles with camera's breaking down in Tasmania's harsh weather and literally falling in pieces... Another headless wallaby and a potential Thylacine from not too far from that location. Cloning isn't cloning when you are mutating gene's to look similar to another species. All you are creating is mutated Dunnart's that will be owned by wealthy people and put in a freakshow menagerie to suffer. Sounds like the Thylacine's past will come back to haunt it yet again if Paskenstein and his cohorts have any luck...
