This Thylacine Footage Was Recently Rediscovered By Researchers Gareth Linnard, Branden Holmes And Mike

LOST THYLACINE FOOTAGE REDISCOVERED

Originally shot by Dr. Randle Stewart, an Australian psychiatrist, whilst on honeymoon in Tasmania, these 18 seconds of combined footage show the last captive thylacine in the world.

Commonly referred to as “Benjamin”, the individual lived at the now-abandoned Beaumaris Zoo from the early 1930s to his death in September of 1936, incidentally the same year thylacines were granted official protection by the Australian government.

The footage, shot in 1931, had been considered lost since the late 1970s.

There's a lot of angles of the skin we're missing

But I know a Thylacine's stripes are often compared to finger prints

(these are just observations)

1. Highlighted: branches of Benjamin's stripes where they connect to each other within the fur pattern.

Most are connected visibly on the photograph, while the skin only has one major visible branch.

We have witnessed museum specimens losing coloration before so that could be a theory as why the pelt is different if it is Benjamin.

2. Next is these two marks that I can't tell if their stripes or scars that Benjamin had. I don't know if the skin is cut where those marks would be visible or not.

Again just observations ^^

BRUH????

Sunbathing thylacines

colorized thylacine footage

OH GAWD *dying sounds* ARCHIVE DID... DID YOU POST NON THYLACINE STUFF ON YOUR THYLACINE ARCHIVE ACCOUNT??!! OH OH GOD

The bottom is gonna be a button :D

This photo, thought to be from the 1880s/1890s, is one of the earliest to show a thylacine. In it, a mother is posed at rest, curled around her joeys, one of which is nestled in her pouch. This taxidermy set represents the only known mount of a mother thylacine and her young, and despite its pricelessness, was supposedly destroyed in 1935. [ x ]

Haha that's cool I like this theory

(Also note: no shade to you op. that taxidermy was made super inaccurately, they could kinda stand on their tails but not like a kangaroo like in that taxidermy stance)

But I love this!! I definitely think he might be a Thylacine now XD

Tigger is not a tiger.

He’s a thylacine. Thylacinus cynocephalus. Also known as the Tasmanian wolf or Tasmanian tiger.

Sounds like a bold claim to make? Let’s look at the facts.

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Here’s a nice thylacine photograph I personally hadn’t seen before. From Eric Guiler’s book “Tasmanian Tiger: A Lesson to be Learnt.”

Photo caption in the book states that it’s a male at the Beaumaris Zoo.

The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, is not a tiger. Nor is it a dog, a fox, or a wolf. It is an extinct carnivorous marsupial…

some more thylacines from the london zoo