
The Hunt for the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tigers, Tasmanian Wolves, Cryptids)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Origins of Dialysteine in Tasmania
Of the 4000 Thiolisian sightings around 1200 of them have been from Tasmania. The Tasmanian government declared dialysteines extinct four years later in 1986. In January 1995 a man named Charles Beasley saw one through binoculars for two minutes. He describes it as dirty brown color with black stripes down its ribcage and about half the size of our station dog.
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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.
