Whether it is a true image or not is up for debate, but the link is an extremely fascinating one. Thanks for posting!
Thylacines in Cryptozoology
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that would be a brilliant case for thylacines still existing in Tasmania. Unfortunately the "Stop Press" now at the top of the article (I'm assuming it wasn't there when you posted the link) shows that the image is identical to a historical thylacine photo.
In other words, it's a hoax.
In other words, it's a hoax.
Ah nuts! No, that 'Stop press' wasn't there when I posted the link last night. Should have known this was too good to be true 
any link? The one in the original link is clearly a hoax, so "another image" is equally clearly going to be a hoax as well.
Here are further photos from the 'footage'. These later ones look more of a quick put-together to me, more obvious photoshop jobs. Can't be long before the original images are found that match these ones
Thylacine Sightings Tasmania
Thylacine Sightings Tasmania
The third image is from the same photo as the first- there are two animals in the original photo and this is the other one- just reversed. The 2nd Image I have not deciphered where it is from(yet) but obviously its going to be another fake.
the Youtube link now simply says "This channel was closed and is no longer available."
HOAX
Ah, nuts, that's all you can see on that thylacine. It is interesting how all of the photos you see of thylacines are photo shopped or somehow very grainy. For whatever reason though, I am always interested whenever I see these articles.Ah nuts! No, that 'Stop press' wasn't there when I posted the link last night. Should have known this was too good to be true
that's actually a nice bit of footage. From the still image in the newspaper article it does look very thylacine-like. Even in the video (linked below) it looks good.
However you can clearly see that the animal has an issue with one of its back legs which gives it an awkward lope and that's what makes it most thylacine-like. And in the zoomed footage near the end, at 0.38 it looks straight at the camera and although it is brief it clearly has a fox's head.
However you can clearly see that the animal has an issue with one of its back legs which gives it an awkward lope and that's what makes it most thylacine-like. And in the zoomed footage near the end, at 0.38 it looks straight at the camera and although it is brief it clearly has a fox's head.
that was actually my thought from the stills shown in the newspaper article. Watching the video I didn't think that - although my video was skipping a bit which made it jumpy.
I'll stand by my "damaged leg" and "fox head". But you could be right.
No, I'm going to switch to injured leg now too. It's clearly favouring one its hind legs, and that does produce the kind of hopping gait we're seeing here for obvious reasons. I think it is the skipping video that threw me also.
I think you'll find that one has been addressed once or twice.
Source?
On here and on Thylacine related sites this has been discussed many times- why no dead bodies, road kills etc. One Thylacine was reputedly killed in 1990 and then photographed, but the whole episode is now mired in mystery.. Had this been properly investigated and the body or photos produced as evidence at the time it might have solved things once and for all.
What I find rather depressing is that nearly all these recent videos of foxes, dogs or whatever are from mainland of Australia and it seems all this recent exposure is having a side effect too, producing a misguided acceptance they may still occur there, which is very unlikely.
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Sorry, I wrote that on arriving back from the pub. I think I was trying to say in agreement with your post that no body (or any other persuasive evidence) coming forward since 1938 is pretty much all you need to know.
It is an odd way for me to have phrased it though I admit.