Neil Waters has three new photos of what he believes are Tasmanian Tigers
He sent the photos to an expert at the Tasmanian Museum for checking
That expert, Nick Mooney, says they are very unlikely to be extinct thylacines
Most likely they are Tasmanian pademelons, a type of wallaby in SE Australia
Mr Waters planned to publicly release the mysterious photos on March 1
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 .
While Waters argued that the alleged footage of a thylacine family serves as proof of the creatures breeding, an expert from at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
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According to Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, no confirmed sightings of Tasmanian tigers also known as thylacines were documented since 1936. Neil Waters maintains at least 60 cameras in the bushes in the hope to capture proof of thylacines. | Photo Credit: Twitter
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Wildlife experts seem to have disagreed with the findings of Neil Waters.
New Delhi: A man in Australia has claimed he has photos of a family of three Tasmanian tigers that were officially declared extinct in 1986. The Tasmanians tigers aka Thylacine were last seen alive in 1936.
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