In Australia "resurrected" extinct 80 years ago animal

Australian scientists interested in the rumors about the observation in the North of the unusual animals that are simultaneously similar to a wolf and a tiger. Local residents are unable to really explain exactly who appeared to their gaze, and the scientist the light decided to find another scientific mystery.

In the North of Australia the eye of several local residents got unusual Pets, which combine the outward signs of a wolf and a tiger. Australians, who until recently was indignant that the country women's traffic lights, difficult to give an accurate assessment of who they saw. The fact of the emergence of a "new" kind of interested local scientists, writes Joinfo.ua.

After a comparison of facts and the received observations, the researchers came to the conclusion that local residents noticed the Tasmanian tiger. The most interesting thing about this story is that a rare animal was considered extinct 80 years ago, writes The Independent.

To know the truth, in the Australian forests on Cape York was established 50 camera traps used for observing the fauna. They recorded animals are very similar to the Tasmanian tigers. Cape York was not chosen by chance: its ecosystem remain untouched by human hand.

Surprised scientists was delighted when, in the middle of the night a few cameras recorded the four beasts, which extremely resembled his appearance the Tasmanian tigers. Members of the species were not like other animals of similar size that live on the Australian Peninsula, such as wild pigs or dogs, dingoes.

According to the journalist, Pointmedia Amelia, Chervinchuk, the researchers will continue observations, to ascertain the truth. In the scientific world to this day, it was believed that the last wild Tasmanian tiger (or marsupial wolf as it is commonly called) was killed in 1930.

The last representative of tillnow (scientific name) kept in captivity in an Australian zoo died in 1936. Since then, zoologists did not lose hope to find in nature at least one representative of this species.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»