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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jurek" data-source="post: 1904307" data-attributes="member: 3357">I only read a link:<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/tassie-tiger/tassie-tiger-sighting-claim-in-irian-jaya/2002/09/25/1032734218360.html" target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/news/tassie-tiger/tassie-tiger-sighting-claim-in-irian-jaya/2002/09/25/1032734218360.html</a>There are also stories from New Guinea about giant monitor lizards similar to Komodo dragon or Megalania.In theory, New Guinea is so rugged and isolated that it may not be impossible that there is a pocket where thylacine lived since Pleistocene and was for the last 30,000 or so years not hunted out by Papuans and not reached and outcompeted by feral dogs (which are supposed to wiped out thylacines in late Pleistocene in New Guinea and mainland Australia but not reached Tasmania). Anyway, two tree kangaroo species were discovered only last years. But unless some serious claim is done, ths is just an amusing story. Not to be believed for real.</blockquote>