
The Hunt for the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tigers, Tasmanian Wolves, Cryptids)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Fearsome Cryptids
This episode of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World deals with an Australian mystery. The cryptids we're talking about today are known both as Thylacines and as Tasmanian Tigers. Their scientific name is Thylacinus sinosephalus. Popularly, they're often called Tasmanian Tigers because they were native to the island of Tasmania. They also have various other names in the local Aboriginal languages.
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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.
