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.
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
The video clip is even better!