ALIEN ZOO

KARL SHUKER brings news of an unseen thylacine photo and a deceased doomsday fish

UNSEEN THYLACINE Hot on the heels (or hooves!) of some lately rediscovered, hitherto long-lost photographs snapped way back in 1864 of a captive living quagga Equus quagga quagga at a South African farm, documented by me recently here in my Alien Zoo, comes some equally exciting photographic news regarding the thylacine (Tasmanian wolf/tiger) Thylacinus cynocephalus. This large, striped, wolf-like marsupial officially became extinct in 1936 when the last confirmed specimen died at Hobart Zoo (though countless unconfirmed sightings in the wild have subsequently been and continue to be reported). Of the 119 currently-known photographs and 13 videos of thylacines, all of them depict living captive specimens or dead wild ones. No picture of a living wild specimen was thought to exist, but a remarkable new disclosure may disprove that received…

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