Possible Marsupial Lion (Thylaceo) Sighting In Yorke Peninsula, South Australia

[Sarus Crane]

I follow the Thylacine Awareness Group on YouTube and today a new video was released detailing a possible sighting in Yorke Peninsula, 2010 of a Marsupial Lion trying to kill someone's cat. Luckily the cat survived. Here is the account of the alleged sighting:

Illustration from the San Francisco Chronicle

If Forrest Galante sees this I hope he'll go looking for it sometime!

 

[birdsandbats]

Yeah right. Bigfoot is more likely.

 

[Bengal Tiger]

I’m skeptical, but there is always a chance that a species thought extinct to be rediscovered.

Yeah right. Bigfoot is more likely.

Fair point lol

 

[birdsandbats]

I’m skeptical, but there is always a chance that a species thought extinct to be rediscovered.

Fair point lol

This isn't a case of a species going extinct a century or two ago and being discovered - the Thylaceo is only known from fossils and became extinct at least 46 thousand years ago. The fact that the Thylacine Awareness Groups thinks this might be legit immediately discredits anything they say, IMO.

 

[Sarus Crane]

I’m skeptical, but there is always a chance that a species thought extinct to be rediscovered.

Fair point lol

Hence why I mentioned Forrest Galante!

 

[DavidBrown]

April Fools Day is not for another two months.

 

[FBBird]

April Fools Day is not for another two months.

Surely a thing that size isn’t going to be ‘trying’ to kill a cat…..

 

[Coelacanth18]

Hard to make much out of an eyewitness account by itself. On top of the general issue of not being able to verify how accurate the account or information is, memory can become significantly altered by the brain over time as new input is acquired... and 10+ years since the sighting is a long time for that process to occur. I'd be more persuadable if there was visual or physical evidence of some kind.

 

[Bengal Tiger]

This isn't a case of a species going extinct a century or two ago and being discovered - the Thylaceo is only known from fossils and became extinct at least 46 thousand years ago. The fact that the Thylacine Awareness Groups thinks this might be legit immediately discredits anything they say, IMO.

Oh I know, I know. Either way, I never said I was actually buying it.

 

[CGSwans]

Thylacolololololol

 

[Chlidonias]

I follow the Thylacine Awareness Group on YouTube

The fact that the Thylacine Awareness Groups thinks this might be legit immediately discredits anything they say, IMO.

TAGA is a bunch of nutjobs. E.g. see this thread which covers a lot of nonsense from them: Thylacines in Cryptozoology

 

[dillotest0]

Ah, seems that the thylacine thing wasn't far-fetched enough as it was, so it was only so that they would find something even more far-fetched, dare I say * ridiculous *...

 

[Fallax]

This is one of the most ridiculous things I have heard in a while, lol.