While thylacine watchers say the number of sightings in South Australia alone is up to four in 2021, a new study gives hope to those who believe the conventional wisdom that the species went extinct in 1936 but hope that conventional wisdom is wrong. The study speculates that the Tasmanian tiger (
Thylacinus cynocephalus) may have been around until the early 2000s and leaves the door open for a live one to walk through today.
“So since Dec 30th 2020, there has been no less than 4 Thylacine sightings in SA, 2 on the same day around 300km apart from each other, one right outside Flinders University, another in the South-east of SA and one near the Barossa Valley, plus the one in the Adelaide hills. Not a bad start to the year for an animal that has been extinct for over 2000+ years on the mainland….”