The Hunt for the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tigers, Tasmanian Wolves, Cryptids)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
00:00
The Search for Real Monsters
The Night Parrot, Pizzoporus Occidentulus, is a small parrot from Central Australia. The Zanzibar leopard was thought extinct after a campaign to exterminate it in the 1960s. A large flightless bird related to the Mohin and found only on New Zealand has also been rediscovered.
Play episode from 36:57
Transcript
The Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger lived in Australia for thousands of years, but went extinct in 1936. Or so they thought. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the reports that there are still thylacines in the wild as well as efforts to bring them back through DNA technology.
