Saturday 16 May 2020

Rare Thylacine Footage Discovered by Researchers

Three Thylacine researchers have been hitting the archives hard and turning up rare, lost and undiscovered footage of the Tasmanian Tiger.

Australians Michael Williams and Branden Holmes, and Welshman , Gareth Linnard, have been credited with turning up the cinematic gems in the Australian National Archives after tenaciously trawling through old files and following up obscure leads.

Here for your viewing pleasure are the clips, which give valuable insights into the Thylacine's movement and behaviour.




Monday 4 March 2019

BOOK REVIEW
Yahoo Creek by Tohby Riddle. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW, 2019.
Having resided in two areas - the Kororo Basin and the Blue Mountains - long noted for reports of strange, highly elusive ape-men, the prolific writer and award-winning artist Tohby Riddle has been interested in the yowie/yahoo mystery for many years.
He has researched the baffling phenomenon in considerable depth, and now, in Yahoo Creek, has put the fruits of his research to very good use.
Although the lavishly illustrated book is intended, primarily, to interest children in the age-old, but on-going, mystery, it is so beautifully produced, and so rich in authentic detail that it is sure to intrigue many older readers.
Almost every double page contains details of a dramatic yowie event taken from a nineteenth or early-twentieth century newspaper, and each item is perfectly complemented by Tohby’s very atmospheric artwork. Many more colonial-era and early modern-era articles are presented, in their original form, in the front and back inside-covers.
No one can begin to understand the yowie/yahoo phenomenon without taking into account the views of Australia’s Indigenous people, who, after all, have been encountering the strange creatures for centuries, if not millennia. So it is very appropriate that Yahoo Creek contains, in addition to the many sighting reports, several enlightening items of Aboriginal Hairy Man lore. Those were shared with Tohby by his friend, Ngiyampaa Elder Peter Williams.
Yahoo Creek will, I’m sure, super-charge the imagination of legions of kids, and any previously sceptical adult who peruses it will have to admit that the yowie/yahoo phenomenon, far from being a series of modern-era hoaxes, has a very long, well documented history.

Tony Healy
Co-author, with Paul Cropper, of Out of the Shadows, Mystery Animals of Australia (1994) and The Yowie (2006)

Saturday 8 April 2017

Victorian Bigcats Research Group








Victorian Bigcats Research Group 
Myself and co founder Sarah Alsop created the group out of our mutual interest in the Bigcat phenomenon. 
We have both had sightings in the Otway ranges and actively conduct our research in the Otways and other parts of Victoria. 
We will be expanding our research in the coming months and would like to hear about your sightings or any other experiences relating to the subject you may have had throughout Australia.
You can keep up to date with our research by joining our group "Victorian Bigcats Research Group or via our YouTube channel " Victorian Bigcats Research Group .
Kevin Braunton

Friday 31 March 2017

A New Thylacine group is taking off big time...




Another fantastic  Facebook Tasmanian Tiger group has been created by a few of us to catalog all Tasmanian sightings and the folklore and history of this amazing animal.
This will also have the latest Tasmanian art as well !!
The difference between this group and others will be it will have NO mainland mangy dog and mangy fox reports or crap video of the same.
We welcome all new members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TasmanianTigerArchives/

Tuesday 26 July 2016

'Hypercarnivore' relative of Tasmanian devil found in remote Queensland fossil field




PHOTO: Whollydooleya's tooth was discovered in 2013, but only recently formally identified. (Supplied: UNSW)


The fossilised tooth of a previously unknown 'hypercarnivore' marsupial has been uncovered in remote Queensland after scientists used satellite data to locate a new hotbed of archaeological records.
The discovery was made possible after a satellite discovery of a an archaeologically rich area of late Miocene rock about four hours' drive north of Mt Isa in outback Queensland.
The area was active from around 12 to 5 million years ago.
Named Whollydooleya tomnpatrichorum — or Whollydooleya for short — the animal was a much larger, distant cousin of the Tasmanian devil.
"This was an animal which was very considerably bigger than the largest [hypercarnivore] we've got today, the Tasmanian devil, probably two to three times," UNSW's Professor Mike Archer told the ABC.
Professor Archer said the animal — discovered with the fossils of several other small to medium animals new to science — was in the size range of thylacines but much more "massive".

While the tooth was first discovered in 2013, the animal is the first of those discovered to be formally identified.
Whollydooleya — and the place it was discovered, Wholly Dooleya Hill — is named after Riversleigh volunteer Genevieve Dooley, the partner of team member Phil Creaser, who named the fossil-rich hill for the team before various types of fossil came their way.
"There's also a new kind of kangaroo that turned up, a distant cousin of the musky rat kangaroo that lives on the Atherton Tableland," Professor Archer said.
Medium to large-sized Australian Late Miocene animals have previously been recorded at Northern Territory sites, but little is known about smaller animals from the period.

"The small to medium-sized mammals from the New Riversleigh deposits will reveal a great deal about how Australia's inland environments and animals changed between 12 and 5 million years ago," team member Dr Karen Black said.Satellites help uncover fossil field

The story behind the discovery of the new fossil field is almost as remarkable as the animals themselves.
 Scientists from UNSW used satellite data to locate the 'New Riversleigh' fossil field before visiting it via helicopter. (Supplied: UNSW)
A PhD student at the university, Ned Stephens, developed a way to use satellite data to find fossil fields by studying the frequencies being returned from known sites at the well-known Riversleigh World Heritage Area.
In 2012, Mr Stephens found a specific set of frequencies coming back up to the satellite but found it was being returned well outside the bounds of the known fossil fields.
"It turns out this area which we're calling New Riversleigh is bigger than the world heritage area, and yet it's not within the world heritage area," Professor Archer said.
"We're just beginning to understand there's a massive deposit of fossils out there which we had no idea about."
Source

Sunday 26 June 2016

Latest FB "thylacine" Prank Photo



Tis the season for Facebook pranks.
Make sure you pretend you just stumbled  on to the animal.Tick
Make sure the animal doesnt react like a normal animal.Tick
Pretend you do not  know what the animal is..your just "putting it out there" .Tick
Pretend you dont have any idea what the true value of the photos would be, if they were real..just give them away on facebook.Tick

 And Geoff Treloar, ergo..The Prankster has pulled the post.
Link

Sunday 19 June 2016

OOPA: Golden Possum turns up in Brisbane

We love it when unusual wildlife turn up where they're not supposed to - in this case the rather splendid-looking Golden Possum, a rare colour phase previously only known to turn up in small pockets of Tasmania (and every once in a Blue Moon, on the outskirts of somewhere like Sydney).

These beauties have a hard time in the wild - it's tricky staying out of sight from large predators like Powerful Owls when your fur is as blingy as this bloke's!

So our thanks to Queensland-based CFZ Australia reader Dylan Smerdon for sharing his friend Auresh Yousefpour's pictures of this rare beauty, which appeared in a suburban backyard in Highgate Hill, Brisbane recently. We've never heard of a Golden Possum so far north.

Have you seen an Out of Place Animal (OOPA) in Australia? Send in your pics, we'd love to see and share them on the blog.






Book Review: Lure Of The Thylacine by Col Bailey


By Mike Williams

Easily Col Bailey's best book so far, Lure Of the Thylacine is now out, the second of three planned books dedicated to the Thylacine. Get your copy HERE.

The passion and dedication that Col has put into this subject astounds me.

As engrossing as the stories are, what is perhaps the saddest thing is that they show you how ignorant people were, sometimes, in those days when they encountered these poor animals.

There are 64 punchy short chapters on Tiger encounters and stories, some that do end happily, at least for the tiger!

Professor Mike Archer has been so impressed with Col's work that he happily accepted the request to write a really thoughtful introduction.

Col's first book started when Col interviewed Reg Trigg back in 1980.

The tiger is still out there and the Lure Of The Thylacine will never go away.

Monday 13 June 2016

Victorian Big Cat Hoax on Facebook

Okay, some Facebook funster has tried a quick hoax, which failed miserably, claiming that he had photographed a large black panther crossing a dirt road in central Victoria.

Click the image to enlarge it.




The image was taken down but that didn't stop the power of social media from sending it viral within minutes, with multiple people claiming either they, their friend or close relative had taken the photo.

You have to admire their pluck!

Our thanks to Tania P. Woodliffe, who appears to have solved the mystery by pointing us to this local news article featuring a fearsome-looking model. Source





Sunday 15 March 2015

Exhaust Notes talks to us about tracking Tigers with Toyota



The team over at Exhaust Notes caught up with some CFZers recently to talk about the recent Tasmanian expedition sponsored by Toyota Australia.

Here's a snippet:

Why did Toyota Australia sponsor your trips?

Toyota Australia agreed to sponsor our trips after we approached them with our idea. They thought the premise was exciting and a good fit for their 4WD vehicles; popular in regional and rural Australia. We were attracted to Toyota because of its solid reputation as a manufacturer of high performance off-road vehicles, and their popularity in the bush. It was a perfect match for us really, and meant we were able to do so much more than we had originally planned.

Get the full story over at Exhaust Notes.






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