2024 Video - Thylacines in Tasmania

[Sharon Hill]

A guy from Minneapolis, who was allegedly travelling in Tasmania in April, supposedly caught several pictures of a Thylacine on the side of the road. He contacted Forrest Galante who interviewed him and revealed the photos. Obviously, lots to dispute.
This is nearly an hour of video. Lots of extra stuff. But the last photo, with the open mouth, is the one that looks the fakest.
The eyewitness account starts around 16:50. The photos that start around 26:10.
Galante doesn't know what to think. It does make sense that he would be contacted about this considering his past involvement in searching for the animal.

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

Illustration of dingo and thylacine.

Does the animal in the video more resemble the dingo?

 

[Z.W. Wolf]

Is this an AI generated image? Or an existing photo clumsily photoshopped? Where's the nose?

 

[john.phil]

Colourised footage of a Thylacine:


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gt0X-27GXM


Comparison between the enhanced images and the footage:












Comparison with Archesuchus' Thylacine doll. The missing nose could have been caused by the black nose being filtered out by a software used to edit the image:



source 1:
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cryptozoology/comments/1ct0lex/at_least_some_of_the_thylacine_photos_appear_to/

source 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cryptozoology/

It's been suggested some of the photos are of this stuffed animal in the dark:

 

[john.phil]

Is this an AI generated image? Where's the nose?

It looks like the nose was filtered out by a "magic wand"-like selection tool in the image editing software, due to the contrast between the nose and the fur, and the hoaxer forgot to select the nose. Just like in this example I produced where the dashed line in the image insert goes around the nose and eye socket. Then when the selected contour is pasted over the image on the left, it follows the missing nose profile very well:

 

[Mendel]

Well, at least one thing is clear: it's either a deliberate hoax, or a real thylacine.
Not many cases where the options are so clear.

 

[FatPhil]

It looks like the nose was filtered out by a "magic wand" selection tool in the image editing software, due to the contrast between the nose and the fur, and the hoaxer forgot to select the nose.

That's almost as good a match as the MH170 computer game asset explosion. Bang to rights.

 

[Ann K]

If this is the photo, I disagree about the nose being "missing". It's just a dark nose imaged against a dark background, but it's definitely there. And, as we can see by the eye shine, it's in motion, so it's distorted. I'm not ruling out fakery, but this certainly isn't proof of it.

 

[JMartJr]

Interesting. My initial reaction to the pictures is manufactured fake or thylacine, not that my initial reaction is always born out upon further investigation! But I'm not seeing (yet] room for mistaken identity.

FWIW, with the fourth "open jaw"image assuming it's a genuine pic of a dog-like critter, I suspect it is a foreleg poking forward...



...pareidolia then kicking in to look like the famous yawning thylacine:

 

[Bob Jase]

Is this an AI generated image? Or an existing photo clumsily photoshopped? Where's the nose?

As the joke goes...

"My thylacine has no nose."

"How does he smell?"

"Like an awful hoax."

 

[FatPhil]

If this is the photo, I disagree about the nose being "missing".

But it's a different photo from the one to which @john.phil took the magic want tool.

 

[Trailblazer]

If this is the photo, I disagree about the nose being "missing". It's just a dark nose imaged against a dark background, but it's definitely there. And, as we can see by the eye shine, it's in motion, so it's distorted. I'm not ruling out fakery, but this certainly isn't proof of it.

The nose is there on that one but seems to be missing on the one where it is facing left: