The Tasmanian tiger, also known as Thylacine, is an animal I looked for on Extinct or Alive. It is one of the most well-known extinct animals, and this man named Zack may have caught it on camera. Could this be proof thylacine is still alive?
Forrest Galante is a world-renowned wildlife biologist and TV Host. His mission is to inspire and educate people about animals and adventure through the media, including hosting programs on Discovery Channel, on-camera expert interviews, and production of his own wildlife and natural history shows.
Some really compelling footage from April 2024. The photographer doesn't want to be identified so there's a chance it's a hoax, but the host has run it by a few photography/wildlife experts who seemed optimistic. The photos begin at 25 minutes in and don't strike me as AI generated.
they're all dead, try to save earth's remaining charismatic fauna instead
Now if only we could get some honest pics of Bigtoe (foot).
At some point I'm hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and listing it as bigfoot hunter on my resume. If I capture one, that's going to be one of the accomplishments.
I would love for this to be real but I'm almost certain the pictures are AI. The guy's story also has a lot of holes, notably flying directly back to the US - a flight that doesn't exist.
To me they're shitty in the wrong way for them to be AI. Like the host thinks it strikes me as a physical object being there. It resembles bad photos I've taken of critters at similar times. The graininess seems more natural than it does a filter and the motion blur seems accurate. Its mouth is weird in one photo but this boy has a weird-ass marsupial mouth that opens like a North American opossum's: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aXHcaX9Nt64/maxresdefault.jpg . I'm still on the fence about it being real, but there's enough interesting documentation there to warrant a really close survey of the area.
He does seem like an unreliable source. Some of the commenters think that's social anxiety and not wanting to become a celebrity for cryptid fanatics but I'd only trust a proper source to follow up on his claims. Staying anonymous like this doesn't indicate he's trying to grift off of it, so I don't know what his angle is unless it's just fucking with that host in particular for some reason.
The photos we have of thylacines fully opening their jaws are super unsettling to me for whatever reason
Realising that stupid hoax footage of endangered animals is only gonna get worse thanks to LLM bideo generation
Just dropping this article here that Forrest Galante is first and foremost a TV host, not a scientist and a fraud who steals other people's years of research
https://undark.org/2020/03/04/colombia-reptile-parachute-science-forrest-galante/
tldr; A Columbian scientist Sergio Balaguera-Reina did science the right way, did his PhD, work with local people, presented his findings in scientific conferences and finally published a paper in scientific journal about rediscovery of caiman subspecies thought to be extinct in 2018. A year later Gallante then brings a TV crew, gives no credit nor acknowledgement to Balaguera-Reina's research, wrassle some crocodile on camera, and claimed on camera that he personally had rediscovered the caiman subspecies.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
