'Tasmanian tiger' footage not of a thylacine but a pademelon, experts say
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The last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity in 1936.
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They're the words so many of us would love to be true.
And when we heard them (again) this week, this time in the title of a video posted to YouTube by the president of the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia (TAGOA) Neil Waters, we couldn't help but become a little bit excited, albeit against our better instincts.
In the video uploaded on Monday, Mr Waters claimed to have captured footage of not one, but three thylacines — proof, he said, "of breeding".