Viral Video Debunked: Alleged Tasmanian Tiger Sighting Turns Out to be a Pademelon

In Australian culture, the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, is something of a mythic beast.

It's hard to take reports like this at face value with no reported sightings since 1936.

The tiger was thought to be a silent and solitary creature.

If they are still truly around after all these years, how did they manage to stay hidden all the time? Especially with the fact that in 2021 with the proliferation of mobile cameras and ever-dwindling places to hide, how did they remain undocumented.

Waters says the party reveals the tigers are breeding in the footage, but there is now more extreme scrutiny than believers.

The Department of Parks, Water, and Environment of the Tasmanian Government thinks that any kind of population will potentially suffer from inbreeding, making long-term survival untenable. "Even if there did exist a few remaining individuals, it is unlikely that such a tiny population would be able to maintain a sufficient genetic diversity to allow for the viable perpetuation of the species in the long-term," he writes.

Call for Resurrection

For over two decades, there have been calls to resurrect extinct creatures in Australia. In 1999, as director of the Australian Museum, paleontologist Michael Archer took over and committed around $57 million to a project that could clone the iconic marsupial from old specimens.

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