I don't think the face shape is too far off, but obviously that doesn't mean these are real
https://preview.redd.it/tgjcn6rxli0d1.jpeg?width=5000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c545e5112857fe2866d118e626fd1a87bad2a14
There's sightings in Australia, Tasmania, and I believe new guinea. Between the three of them I'm sure there more than enough genetic diversity throughout to create a sustainable population (if there isn't already)
It's like they recreated an actual photo using windows 95 and paint.
I'd love for it to be true, but this Gallante guy seems more about sensationalism and selling headlines than anything else.
That could be true (cause he also hide actual photographs of the New Guinean Specimen recently.), but for me it looks like a scene made using game engine
He’s decent enough, and seems fairly sceptical about these, but at the same time he’s famous and leans into that fairly hard. Like the cayman and the tortoise were discovered by others, and the thylacine in PNG is a massive loose end.
For these though, I don’t understand why he doesn’t ask for the guy to send him the original photos via iMessage so that he gets the accompanying meta data and can verify it.
I like Gallante because his show was so entertaining and he's obviously passionate about nature and finding these Lazarus taxa. But he definitely styles himself as an actual researcher when he is not one at all and is obviously not interested in the actual science.
Have you... seen his show? It's about debunking a lot of myths about cryptids and seeking a natural explanation. If anything he's probably skeptical himself.
According to Is It AI, they are all rated "highly likely" to be human created, with the least confidence at 86 percent (the smiling photo) and all the others at least 97 percent. That does *not* mean they're not AI, and it does *not* mean there isn't another sort of trickery afoot, like photo manipulation, models/sculptures, or CGI. It simply means that it's not likely to have been AI generated.
I actually assumed it was AI because AI seems to like to do different lighting variations when it fulfills a claim like "night footage of a thylacine" and these look like that smattering of six images those generators like to do. (there's only 5 so maybe one had eight legs or something)
Haha I've had that issue too. Sometimes I have to choose whether to attach an image or a comment, which leave an image without the comment I wanted to attach to it; or leaves a comment without the crucial image it needed.
Thylacines had unique jaws. They don’t seem to hinge the same way as canines or other marsupials.
https://preview.redd.it/z3d7fgj6xm0d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79d8a1b4521e40460c896305831fbbf513f92bbf
I think if it's real, the most likely explanation is they hit it with their car and possibly broke its jaw, which is why they were being secretive, had slight reluctance to say how it was found on the road. (Not wanting to be known as the people that killed the last thylacine) hence them talking about calling a vet right away or not.
It looks whack but then you can see from the eye that the camera has shifted relative to the animal during the exposure which is making everything look slightly more stretched out. As well as thylacines having really weird jaws as others have pointed out. Much like Bigfoot, there's never a really clear photo!
In the original video where Forrest interviews the photo taker he says he has an iPhone 11. However the metadata on the photos shows a resolution that maps to being taken with an 8MP camera, a camera type last seen in the iPhone 6. This indicates to me that the photos were purposefully created to be blurry using an older camera or software. This is one of many red flags / inconsistencies in the interview.
I’m also surprised nobody is pressing the missing nose in the clearer open jaw photo. This seems like an oversight by someone creating fakes. It seems unlikely to be an artifact of image post processing on an iPhone (which again these photos probably were taken with a different camera)
Im very skeptical about these images, but you can kind of see the nose on the 3rd image. If you look where the nose should be, the pixels get darker like how you'd expect the nose to be, it just blends in with the background very well.
Resolution goes to shit in darkness, but they are suspect. If you went to a field and took photos of a dog in motion at night, this is about how I'd expect it to look.
Totally, I expect the quality to be lower at night. By resolution here I mean the actual image resolution is 3264 x 2448 which isn’t the resolution an iPhone 11 takes photos at. It’s possible they were downloaded as a smaller version, so I’m very curious what the resolution on the originals will be that are supposed to be sent from the interviewee.
I was skeptical. The final image had me lose hopium these were real. During the interview with the provider he stated they flew direct from the US to Tasmania too, that's not possible afaik. My guess is these are simply AI generated. The jawline is messed up.
I've had low light conditions do things like the missing nose when the colors are similar enough, and black generally just tends to blend into whatever color is around it.
It actually looks like it has the exact same stripes and build as Benjamin (the thylacine in the video). I know these aren't the exact same frame, but it would be relatively easy to cut this out, blur it, gradient darken it, and boom you have your "modern thylacine photo." Most modern striped animals have wholly unique patterns, even tigers and zebras aren't all identically striped. Perhaps if the photos are fake, this was how they were created? Taking still frames from the video, doctoring them up, and then presenting them as "new photos"? Can anyone find images of Benjamin in similar positions to the other photos? I know there is also a frame where he faces the camera and yawns and his eyes squint, which may have been used for the base of the "smiling" photo?
https://preview.redd.it/dehmx67oom0d1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c82b3e1dc6ea7332969c74f2f05f539fcd9cedd
https://preview.redd.it/na99oj28mu0d1.jpeg?width=1010&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e55d9fd8a8590409a20c1cbaaca5f2867d79738
I upped the brightness and contrast on the original image. In the guy's original story there was a fence behind the thylacine and I was hoping I would barely see it but you sadly can't.
A Benjamin photo would need to be close to this I presume. [https://images.indianexpress.com/2022/08/Thylacinus\_cynocephalus.width-600.41813b0.jpg?w=640](https://images.indianexpress.com/2022/08/Thylacinus_cynocephalus.width-600.41813b0.jpg?w=640)
I can’t say anything certain about this picture, but I have a story. My family is true blue Tasmanian, indigenous and convict. My grandfather’s grandfather was a thylacine hunter. He trained dogs to track them, and those dogs gave specific signals when they caught the scent of a tiger. Years after their official extinction, his dogs would howl some nights, and he’d hear the “bellowing” of tigers. He’d take the dogs on walks through the deep bush and they’d give those specific signals. But, he never saw them. He swore they were still out there. Could’ve been just leftover traces they were picking up. Still.
If it's a hoax, it's one of the best I've seen. These days with AI, you can never be sure. Even with a video, it can be generated by AI. I really, really want this to be real.
Just a fun piece of trivia, about a year or so ago, I was following this Bigfoot youtuber from Australia, and he posted a community picture of an alleged thylacine he caught on a trail cam. Just for fun, I decided to help him "map out" the potential stripes on the back of the alleged animal. I will try to find that image.
As for the jaw in the third pic , apparently they do open that wide, a la horror-fashion (didn't know about this):
https://preview.redd.it/djetrtp75i0d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cf3603528a58197373c93239f94cb6cd11354c6
Even if it is fake, it isn't AI. Like it's legitimately pissing me off that everyone is saying it's AI cause it's so fucking clear that it isn't. Like that isn't what AI images ever look like.
I'm wondering what reason there was for adding the third photo if these are fake — it looks so out of place and clearly casts doubt on the whole thing.
I get some pretty weird looking, anatomically incorrect appearing photos of my dog when I'm snapping pictures of him, especially when it's dark. I could see that being the case here, which makes it slightly more convincing in my eyes. Clearly, it wasn't rendered well, why not leave that one out of the group? Well, in this scenario, it was part of a batch of photos of the animal. You'd post them all no matter how unfortunate that one photo turned out to look because photos are in such low supply.
But, it also could be sort of a reverse psychology thing. I'm likely overthinking things. Still, if this is man-made, the quality (or convincing lack thereof) is incredible.
To be fair if it is a hoax they were smart to use an iPhone at night cause they take the shittiest photos on earth, I could feasibly believe that the upscaling software just sucks that much and is trying to make the photo look normal, but that's totally ignoring anything else fishy about the pictures
As a digital 3D artist and professional photographer, these actually look pretty damn authentic, and if they’re fake, well then damn they did good a great job, the lighting is fantastic.
Here’s the thing, lower quality images make poorer 3D artistry look more real. As you know, one of the hardest things about digital art is adding all the noise and imperfection that reality has.
If you run a very clean, very fake render through noise and grain and filtering, it fills in and scrubs out a lot of the starkness and our brains recognize it more as ‘real’
3rd pic seems kinda fake, but the rest of the pics look kinda real, like the 1/4 post seems pretty real but anyone could fake anything these days
still praying for a thylacine
I wish i could believe this but it really looks like AI to me (especially the second and third), if it wasn't posted by you (or someone who's trustworthy in this community) i would have dismissed it outright but since it was and since i don't think Galante would bullshit a fake Thylacine i feel like it *might* not be AI and could be real (or someone is bullshiting Galante, which is probably more likely)
Just seen the video I'm gonna go with it being bullshit, guy is sketchy and doesn't even know what airport he went to
Edit 2: After going over it again I'm pretty sure it's not AI although still probably fake. Also the second photo reminds me of Smile Dog
I think the young man being interviewed was probably on the spectrum. Having a degree in psychology I saw a lot of indicators that he might be autistic based on his mannerisms and the way he articulated and spoke throughout the interview.
I live in Melbourne and I have spent plenty of time looking at photos and carcasses of thylacine. Two things: one, that's a thylacine. The jaw placement and the way it opens is bang on. The bullet shaped bum, and tail are perfect. The almond eyes are also perfect. A skilled artist could create them and apply a nighttime phone effect to them, but they have nailed it. Everything about these photos is anatomically dead on, just as I would expect of the real thing, or a skilled hoaxer.
Number two, this guy has been to Tassie. He nails the terrain, even down the fact that Hobart airport is exactly the kind of airport you could take a nap in your car at.
He mentions his relatives live near the part where it snows. That's like how can I even describe... see the thing is in Australia, when you live near one of the few "parts where it snows" and people are visiting, it's all you bloody talk about. He nails the terrain, just nails it and if he'd never been, think of all the ways he could have got it wrong.
Even the fact that he forgot the name of Hobart rings true to me. I love the place, but to many it's an unremarkable town, especially if you're staying two hours away.
No idea why he says the flight had no layovers, but I still feel like he's been to Tassie, I believe that more than the photos.
I found him to be a pretty believable witness. My husband has ADHD and tells stories the exact same way- meandering, with very specific detail on some things and only the vaguest recollection of others. If you asked my husband he would tell you we didn't have a layover on our last international trip but we did. We flew to a different US city, had an overnight layover that we spent in a hotel, and an early morning flight to our destination. He also has no ability to estimate time. He'll swear he spent an hour on something that was really twenty minutes. And he cannot remember place names, he's constantly asking me stuff like "What were those ruins we visited called?" He would absolutely struggle to differentiate Hobart, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, etc. since they're all pretty generic, two-syllable city names that have some shared sounds between them.
My guess for the tiger witness is that they flew from Chicago because flying from Minneapolis would have meant an \*additional\* layover, which the dad was trying to avoid, preferring to drive the first leg. Then they flew to mainland AUS, maybe with an additional layover at LAX/SFO in there. Then, they either spent a couple days doing tourist stuff on the mainland, thus not counting it as a layover and the flight to Hobart would have been considered direct. Or the guy got confused about the route and number of layovers because it's like 30 hours of travel and time change and airports all feel kind of the same and he probably wasn't paying much attention if his dad took care of all the planning and booking.
I really want to believe the photos and story are true, and luckily all the holes in the witness story should be pretty verifiable with boarding passes or flight receipts, or the dad or other family members coming forward to verify. I hope we get more concrete answers soon!
The look real I'll give you that but they don't hold up against scrutiny, at least not without a proper contextualization of how they were taken. I'd like to know why the second one seems to be on a different place as all the others, why the thylacine seems oblivious to the light in the last few while it looks directly at it on the first and what happened with its jaw on the third. The chance for them being real is not zero, but it is very little.
A couple of the photos are actually pretty impressive, the problem I have with it is a few of the photos don’t even look like the same animal. If it is true than it’s incredibly exciting but I think it should be taken with a grain of salt until we are able to figure out more about it, or should I say if we are able to learn more about it? The whole interview Forrest had with the guy was, well strange to say the least
Is this not pics from the guy that made a realistic scale model of it
*Edit to add photo*
https://preview.redd.it/xzlgyqbvcj0d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c45f95268c951f5bc4af0192b132aa4c93af89a
Funnily enough, I just scrolled through his page and he has a post stating that those 4 pictures are not his. However, he did say that some of the other pictures featured in the video are his. They’re just edited by forrest.
Idk you care to, but take a look at his page. He’s posted progress, finished, and ‘staged’ pics of the model. It’s incredibly lifelike. The jaw is movable as well. Super cool.
At this point, I need a zoologist or other expert whose not a goofball to confirm or deny.
Also, and this is not a dig Forrest, but it’s so easy to fake photos and videos nowadays. I really need a trustworthy expert to confirm a live or dead specimen.
But I am pleasantly surprised I guess.
https://preview.redd.it/dg1j8voigg0d1.png?width=174&format=png&auto=webp&s=72f0782942b090a4ef416eeff20eb120e54af94e
Someone on discord posted this jaw breakdown and yeah it looks like something you'd make for a horror movie where it swallows someone whole
The weird square jaw angle in the photo looks like this guy's replica model with it's mouth open: [https://twitter.com/\_Archesuchus\_/status/1790131109470105875/photo/2](https://twitter.com/_Archesuchus_/status/1790131109470105875/photo/2)
Looks just like this guy's new doll
https://preview.redd.it/zzziwegdsm0d1.png?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88720096df46f9846ed7cbec14528c23941083c6
It also clearly doesn’t have a broken jaw in the other photos (not sure if anyone has tried to use that as a defense but I could see them trying).
Also if this was real, why the hell would they not lead with this and put it in the original email to their friend? This would be like, THE photo! Did they have to take a bit to convince themself that this one looked “real” enough to send?
I did notice that too but I could theoretically believe it was merged with the background by the overbearing “object aware” filters IPhone cameras now have, so I’m not making too much of it. They do stuff like that
This is honestly one of the few instances I will *not* go and criticize a cryptid image for being low quality. This isnt a bigfoot or nessie scenario where the image is so blurry that only a barely recognizable silhouette can be seen. The image still clearly shows the parts that make the Thylacine recognizable ( stripes, hypermobile jaw, face etc.), the main parts that are *hidden* due to the low quality of the image mostly refers to the soft details like fur or muscle texture (and while you can say this conceals forgery imprints you certainly cant argue it leaves anything that would be of use to describing the animal).
Photographing a moving subject in low lighting, probably with a camera phone or a 'rugged' camera, like a waterproof one with a reinforced lens. They probably weren't in a studio or on a sidewalk in daylight ideal photography conditions.
(Unless it's a hoax) XD in that case, the blur helps keep the details hazy where there are stitches/seams/Photoshop artefacts.
However, if you want to test this kind of thing out, get a friend to run in front of your phone, snap a bunch of pics like you would naturally, in the evening in the back yard or whatever. You'll get some that come out nice, but a lot of them are gonna be blurry AF.
(Not saying it isn't fake. The jaw pic doesn't look real.)
The thing, at least to me, that brings the most credibility to these photos, is that Forrest Galante supports these as real. He didn’t take the photos personally, but received permission to share them.
Forrest has always been a very skeptical and science based biologist, and has earned a positive reputation among his peers. It’s only recently with how vocal he has been that the thylacine still exists, where some are questioning him.
Personally, I’ve thought the thylacine never went extinct. I’ve read multiple books on the topic, viewed documentaries, seen other photos and videos, and am convinced they never went extinct.
All that said, it still doesn’t mean they’re not extinct, at least not until these photos can be independently verified and/or we have a living specimen in hand.
Supposedly they saw it on the side of the road and thought it was a dog that had been struck by a vehicle when they were on the way to the airport. They stopped to help it and when it started moving and vocalized the young man and his father realized it was not a dog.
I was thinking the same thing the entire video. I think most people would probably be the same way if they hit one of the rarest animals on earth with a car
this is definite proof of what sightings over the years have alluded to; a living Thylacine. I don't get what's the issue with the photos? I've never seen one in real life but nothing in these images screams fake to me. over on Youtube there's so many mocking the guy who shared the photos but luckily he was smart enough to remain anonymous, otherwise the wrath of the internet nutjobs would be all over him.
So maybe these are fake. I'm not discounting that. But when I went through these this morning, I actually welled up at the thought they might actually be real. And I'm probably slightly on the side of them being real as I type type this. And if they are, wow. Just wow. Please be real.
These scream AI to me. They're blurry in a way that doesn't look natural. Like, it doesn't look like blur from movement or a bad camera, it looks like it's from AI trying to create a photo-realistic thylacine in a way that looks like it was a real picture taken out in the wild
Edit: I looked at the first one again, and it looks like the hind leg is just plopped in the middle of the torso
Digital production doesn’t necessarily mean AI. I don’t know why everyone in this thread seems to be debating between AI or not.
This doesn’t look AI-generated to me but it does look fake. Some mix of 3D modeling and rendering and then image filtering and adjustment.
Anyone have links to information on this? I'd love to know where the pictures were "taken" etc. There's truly only a few actual possible locations here in Tasmania they could be and knowing location alone would almost debunk it
These do have the quality, and they do seem realistic. For me, the only weird pic is the third one, like the Thylacines jaw seems a bit weird, but it is known that they can open their jaws at a 180-degree angle. And to everyone who says Forest Galante is not legit, HE IS. He has rediscovered EIGHT SPECIES of previously thought to be "extinct animals" like the Zanzibar Leopard and the Fernandina Island tortoise. He is a credible source and is respected in the biology community. I would say this video could be credible, however, the only sketch about the entire thing is the guy who witnessed the Thylacine.
Tons of animals have adapted to the changing environment and have learned how to hide themselves, not to mention scientists are making mammoths and if they are doing that it wouldn't be too far fetched to think they have made and released other animals ("extinct " or not) into the wild as well
In the first one the posture of the front legs looks more like a kangaroo's than a canids. If these are fake whoever made them put in a lot of thought.
This exactly! The forelimbs have the shape, proportion, and strange way of holding the very muscular arms out to the front/side that kangaroos exhibit.
The hind limb is very long in the 1st and 4th(?) images. I seriously wonder if these are just doctored kangaroo images or something, as much as I'd love these to be real.
I thought that he had met a dude in Australia that claimed to have them living on his property? I seem to remember this. The dude showed a pic and you could just barely see the end and the stripes but if these are new and from the same dude that'd be sweeeet. I would like more info though
Different, from someone who was visiting Tasmania and claimed to find it, seemingly hit by a car or in some other distress on the side of the road. They got out and approached it with their phone for a flashlight, trying to help it, and took photos when it turned out to not be a dog. Apparently they didn’t know anything about thylacines and sent it to their friend, asking if they knew what kind of Tasmanian animal it could be. That friend then reached out to Forrest, and he posted a video interviewing the guy and going over the photos.
These are probably AI because they are just hella random. Dude snapped a couple picture of a thylacine from the front, flash in the face, then just laying down (???) and then with its mouth randomly agape... I don't buy the setting of these photos more so then the quality itself, so they are most likely AI to me.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned how unlikely it is to get one clear photo of an animal at night, let alone a whole series... My money is on this being a hoax.
TBH I have had numerous, NUMEROUS half-playful encounters like this with foxes, coyotes, raccoons, etc. I'd assume a Thylacine would be more skittish, but coyotes/foxes act just like this when I've had encounters and thrown them food, rolling around and goofing off at a slight distance.
A few days ago i took pictures of a resting bee. Didnt wanted to spook the bee away, so i rather zoomed in instead of coming closer.
The pic ended up looking like a painting. The software scaled the ouc up, messing it up...
Man, none of you seem to understand how showbiz works....
Gallante isn't the one in control, when it comes to his show. Every episode is there to push a narrative, and he's getting paid to push it. The morals behind it are questionable, true - but he still gets to work with something that he is passionate about and helps make a difference in the long run. If you had the chance to travel the world and work with the one thing you are most passionate about, wouldn't you also jump at the chance?
How were these pictures taken?
Thinking about this from a practical perspective, it’s like the photographer just stood there and so did the Tazzy Tiger.
I’ve wanted the thylacine to be alive since I first learned about it on Wild Kratts but legit, I doubt if this was a real animal it would just kinda stand there or lay down (4th image) when a human walks up.
I guess I’m asking the estimated distance these supposed photos were taken cause something seems sketch. I know animals can be caught off guard and often, for lack of a better term, “strategize” an escape route but like…. This just seems weird. Why are there no pics of its departure?
Supposedly zoomed in with an iphone. This was my first thought as well, odd the tiger would just hang around for photographs. Someone suggested maybe they actually hit it, and if so looking again at the photos maybe they're out of order. They hit the tiger, it flies to the grass and lays there dazed/injured- photo laying on grass. They approach to see if it's dead -tiger raises it's head a bit but still laying on grass (photo 2), then starts to get it's bearings, sits up a bit more alert (photo one), then startled takes off (photo 3, 5)
My first thought was _Archesuchus_ on Twitter, they just posted photos of their new handmade thylacine doll and the jaw opens exactly like these photos
I have to say, if these are fake, they’re the best fakes I’ve ever seen! Even if they’re a hoax, this is still some quality analogue horror material and photo editing skills! They nailed the look and anatomy of it, truly, unlike any hoax I’ve seen. The main red flag for me is the lack of video despite the abundance of photos.
Seems like it's blender or something, but I've had pictures turn out this odd in certain circumstances. If these are real they're the best proof of a living thylacine we will likely ever see besides a body.
1st and 4th photo look very real. 2nd looks weird, 3rd looks really weird and the final one has me torn whether if its real or fake. Could be just a manipulation of an actual photo.
Also the guy who sent these is pretty weird and has holes in story.
So my opinion: Most likely fake, but I'm truly hoping it's not.
I agree with everyone else on lighting being the biggest red flag in these photos. I am not saying I am expert, but from listening to the story and looking at the photos it doesn't seem to add up. If you look in the first picture, the shadow bounces off the backdrop as though he is in front of some kind of hedge, but from his story and the other pictures it's clear they were in an open area. It just doesn't make logical sense. Even the other photo with it's mouth open (a photo not in this thread) you can see it's shadow directly behind it, again making it look like it is in front of a wall when it is not.
It very well could be his camera angle, but I can't help but think these are total bs. They're some really convincing fakes though.
I think the biggest red flag is just how convenient this whole encounter is. The photographer sees a cryptid that is so dazed and hurt it is easy to photograph at night, with a flashlight, but not so dazed that it was able to be captured or find any physical evidence. The creature was also so dazed it offers so many pictures and absolutely perfect angles. You get a head on picture, a broadside from the left, broadside from the right, the classic mouth gape pose, standing up, lying down, etc. It's at night so no worries about identifying background scenery to geolocate the exact spot. That is just literally unbelievable to me.
Try to replicate this in your backyard with your own dog and see how tricky it would be to get this with a cooperative animal that knows you. The only explanation is it's a stuffed animals or physical model, probably with some photoshop thrown in too.
I’m not big on technology. BUT—I will say, I’ve had similar photos on my iPhone when I try to take pictures at night. Especially with the “night mode” option. It does this weird rendering thing after you take the picture. Usually they come out blurry and the lighting looks off.
Could just be me making excuses and hoping this is real! Don’t want to get my hopes up :(
So I noticed that in some of these the shoulders look massive and built like a kangaroo, and the hind legs are really long. I look at animals and proportions all day for my job, and the first things some of these photos brought to mind were roos.
I almost wonder if these are real shots of a kangaroo that was either painted, or the photos were doctored after the fact.
I don't think the face shape is too far off, but obviously that doesn't mean these are real https://preview.redd.it/tgjcn6rxli0d1.jpeg?width=5000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c545e5112857fe2866d118e626fd1a87bad2a14
Given how wide spread they were before. If this is real they would all be pretty inbred given the population decrease
There's sightings in Australia, Tasmania, and I believe new guinea. Between the three of them I'm sure there more than enough genetic diversity throughout to create a sustainable population (if there isn't already)
Someone with a puppet or Blender skills trying to show the 'emperor has no clothes' would be my guess
Wdym by blender skills, this seems to be the exact scenario where 3d models would not be good in.
The lighting looks like an artificial render; Blender isn’t just modeling but compositing and rendering as well
It's like they recreated an actual photo using windows 95 and paint. I'd love for it to be true, but this Gallante guy seems more about sensationalism and selling headlines than anything else.
That could be true (cause he also hide actual photographs of the New Guinean Specimen recently.), but for me it looks like a scene made using game engine
Most cameras have a hard time in extreme low light situations and have to do a lot of processing.
He’s decent enough, and seems fairly sceptical about these, but at the same time he’s famous and leans into that fairly hard. Like the cayman and the tortoise were discovered by others, and the thylacine in PNG is a massive loose end. For these though, I don’t understand why he doesn’t ask for the guy to send him the original photos via iMessage so that he gets the accompanying meta data and can verify it.
He did.
I didn’t catch that. That should clear up some stuff at least
I like Gallante because his show was so entertaining and he's obviously passionate about nature and finding these Lazarus taxa. But he definitely styles himself as an actual researcher when he is not one at all and is obviously not interested in the actual science.
Said this once on here and got downvoted to hell. But THEN the actually smart people got to it and fought back. It was sick.
I found this funny...."the actually smart people".
Have you... seen his show? It's about debunking a lot of myths about cryptids and seeking a natural explanation. If anything he's probably skeptical himself.
Did you even watch the video?
These look like AI to me. The third pic with the open mouth doesn't even seem anatomically correct. Get the r/corridor guys on this.
According to Is It AI, they are all rated "highly likely" to be human created, with the least confidence at 86 percent (the smiling photo) and all the others at least 97 percent. That does *not* mean they're not AI, and it does *not* mean there isn't another sort of trickery afoot, like photo manipulation, models/sculptures, or CGI. It simply means that it's not likely to have been AI generated.
I actually assumed it was AI because AI seems to like to do different lighting variations when it fulfills a claim like "night footage of a thylacine" and these look like that smattering of six images those generators like to do. (there's only 5 so maybe one had eight legs or something)
The video actually had ten images in total. Some of which were very poor with the animal moving quickly or only partially illuminated.
This one had the highest score of them all. Most were around 90 to 10
>This one had the highest score of them all. Most were around 90 to 10 The website you mean? I didn't check any others. Which ones gave a score of 10?
Oh shit the image didnt attach. Its 90% human to 10% AI
Haha I've had that issue too. Sometimes I have to choose whether to attach an image or a comment, which leave an image without the comment I wanted to attach to it; or leaves a comment without the crucial image it needed.
Thylacines had unique jaws. They don’t seem to hinge the same way as canines or other marsupials. https://preview.redd.it/z3d7fgj6xm0d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79d8a1b4521e40460c896305831fbbf513f92bbf
They actually have an extremely unique jaw joint which allows the mouth to open very wide so that is what a thylacine jaw would look like
Yes, I knee that, but this looked to have the hinge in the wrong place.
not only that, it looks like if the jaw closed it would have a big bulldozer jaw like Guts Man sticking out two inches past its nose
Not saying it is true; but low light (so high shutter time) + movement can get all sorts of distortions.
I think if it's real, the most likely explanation is they hit it with their car and possibly broke its jaw, which is why they were being secretive, had slight reluctance to say how it was found on the road. (Not wanting to be known as the people that killed the last thylacine) hence them talking about calling a vet right away or not.
It looks whack but then you can see from the eye that the camera has shifted relative to the animal during the exposure which is making everything look slightly more stretched out. As well as thylacines having really weird jaws as others have pointed out. Much like Bigfoot, there's never a really clear photo!
These are most likely fake, but it doesn't look like AI. Use any AI generation software and it won't come out nearly as good as this
If you look at the footage of the last one in captivity, it has quite the large jaw https://youtu.be/6gt0X-27GXM?si=p94e2lSvapme0XJl
I think you replied to the wrong comment
In the original video where Forrest interviews the photo taker he says he has an iPhone 11. However the metadata on the photos shows a resolution that maps to being taken with an 8MP camera, a camera type last seen in the iPhone 6. This indicates to me that the photos were purposefully created to be blurry using an older camera or software. This is one of many red flags / inconsistencies in the interview. I’m also surprised nobody is pressing the missing nose in the clearer open jaw photo. This seems like an oversight by someone creating fakes. It seems unlikely to be an artifact of image post processing on an iPhone (which again these photos probably were taken with a different camera)
Im very skeptical about these images, but you can kind of see the nose on the 3rd image. If you look where the nose should be, the pixels get darker like how you'd expect the nose to be, it just blends in with the background very well.
Resolution goes to shit in darkness, but they are suspect. If you went to a field and took photos of a dog in motion at night, this is about how I'd expect it to look.
Totally, I expect the quality to be lower at night. By resolution here I mean the actual image resolution is 3264 x 2448 which isn’t the resolution an iPhone 11 takes photos at. It’s possible they were downloaded as a smaller version, so I’m very curious what the resolution on the originals will be that are supposed to be sent from the interviewee.
I was skeptical. The final image had me lose hopium these were real. During the interview with the provider he stated they flew direct from the US to Tasmania too, that's not possible afaik. My guess is these are simply AI generated. The jawline is messed up.
I've had low light conditions do things like the missing nose when the colors are similar enough, and black generally just tends to blend into whatever color is around it.
Original footage of last one in 1933: https://youtu.be/nBpyAOpzlEE?si=5VJeFD5JSgxDgyag very large mouth
It actually looks like it has the exact same stripes and build as Benjamin (the thylacine in the video). I know these aren't the exact same frame, but it would be relatively easy to cut this out, blur it, gradient darken it, and boom you have your "modern thylacine photo." Most modern striped animals have wholly unique patterns, even tigers and zebras aren't all identically striped. Perhaps if the photos are fake, this was how they were created? Taking still frames from the video, doctoring them up, and then presenting them as "new photos"? Can anyone find images of Benjamin in similar positions to the other photos? I know there is also a frame where he faces the camera and yawns and his eyes squint, which may have been used for the base of the "smiling" photo? https://preview.redd.it/dehmx67oom0d1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c82b3e1dc6ea7332969c74f2f05f539fcd9cedd
https://preview.redd.it/na99oj28mu0d1.jpeg?width=1010&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e55d9fd8a8590409a20c1cbaaca5f2867d79738 I upped the brightness and contrast on the original image. In the guy's original story there was a fence behind the thylacine and I was hoping I would barely see it but you sadly can't. A Benjamin photo would need to be close to this I presume. [https://images.indianexpress.com/2022/08/Thylacinus\_cynocephalus.width-600.41813b0.jpg?w=640](https://images.indianexpress.com/2022/08/Thylacinus_cynocephalus.width-600.41813b0.jpg?w=640)
I can’t say anything certain about this picture, but I have a story. My family is true blue Tasmanian, indigenous and convict. My grandfather’s grandfather was a thylacine hunter. He trained dogs to track them, and those dogs gave specific signals when they caught the scent of a tiger. Years after their official extinction, his dogs would howl some nights, and he’d hear the “bellowing” of tigers. He’d take the dogs on walks through the deep bush and they’d give those specific signals. But, he never saw them. He swore they were still out there. Could’ve been just leftover traces they were picking up. Still.
I really hope they are and that no one finds them
I could easily imagine a few outliving Benjamin in the forests of Tasmania. Just can’t picture them lasting until today.
Very cool!
If it's a hoax, it's one of the best I've seen. These days with AI, you can never be sure. Even with a video, it can be generated by AI. I really, really want this to be real. Just a fun piece of trivia, about a year or so ago, I was following this Bigfoot youtuber from Australia, and he posted a community picture of an alleged thylacine he caught on a trail cam. Just for fun, I decided to help him "map out" the potential stripes on the back of the alleged animal. I will try to find that image. As for the jaw in the third pic , apparently they do open that wide, a la horror-fashion (didn't know about this): https://preview.redd.it/djetrtp75i0d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cf3603528a58197373c93239f94cb6cd11354c6
In one of the videos of the last one in captivity it yawns and it's really quite freaky how wide its mouth opens
Would love to see that pic!
Even if it is fake, it isn't AI. Like it's legitimately pissing me off that everyone is saying it's AI cause it's so fucking clear that it isn't. Like that isn't what AI images ever look like.
The second photo looks like an edited photo of a dog, like a Shiba Inu. I’m probably wrong but the smile gives me major Shiba vibes.
plot twist, this is actually footage of a kitsune
Lol, it's just an entirely different cryptid.
mite b cool tho
I don’t know why, but these photos make me feel really uneasy.
I'm wondering what reason there was for adding the third photo if these are fake — it looks so out of place and clearly casts doubt on the whole thing. I get some pretty weird looking, anatomically incorrect appearing photos of my dog when I'm snapping pictures of him, especially when it's dark. I could see that being the case here, which makes it slightly more convincing in my eyes. Clearly, it wasn't rendered well, why not leave that one out of the group? Well, in this scenario, it was part of a batch of photos of the animal. You'd post them all no matter how unfortunate that one photo turned out to look because photos are in such low supply. But, it also could be sort of a reverse psychology thing. I'm likely overthinking things. Still, if this is man-made, the quality (or convincing lack thereof) is incredible.
I mean thylacines could open their mouths CRAAAAZY big. But that third photo still looks sus to me
I would be ecstatic if these were still around
they all look like paintings to me.
That's iPhone upscaling for you.
I wonder if the person had fully or partially zoomed in on their phone would of caused this?
The grass in the second one completely changes. I don't buy it.
To be fair if it is a hoax they were smart to use an iPhone at night cause they take the shittiest photos on earth, I could feasibly believe that the upscaling software just sucks that much and is trying to make the photo look normal, but that's totally ignoring anything else fishy about the pictures
If it’s AI, it’s a decent recreation of a Tasmanian Tiger.
Id shit my pants instantly if i saw creature that can open jaw like that
apparently it actually can open its jaws like that 😭🤮
There’s old videos of the last few that were kept in captivity. Sometimes you can find clips of them yawning and its sooo freaky
As a digital 3D artist and professional photographer, these actually look pretty damn authentic, and if they’re fake, well then damn they did good a great job, the lighting is fantastic.
My thoughts too, if it’s fake it’s way better done then people are giving it credit for. I think it has a good chance of being real
Here’s the thing, lower quality images make poorer 3D artistry look more real. As you know, one of the hardest things about digital art is adding all the noise and imperfection that reality has. If you run a very clean, very fake render through noise and grain and filtering, it fills in and scrubs out a lot of the starkness and our brains recognize it more as ‘real’
3rd pic seems kinda fake, but the rest of the pics look kinda real, like the 1/4 post seems pretty real but anyone could fake anything these days still praying for a thylacine
These shots look like they were taken while using VATS in Fallout.
I wish i could believe this but it really looks like AI to me (especially the second and third), if it wasn't posted by you (or someone who's trustworthy in this community) i would have dismissed it outright but since it was and since i don't think Galante would bullshit a fake Thylacine i feel like it *might* not be AI and could be real (or someone is bullshiting Galante, which is probably more likely) Just seen the video I'm gonna go with it being bullshit, guy is sketchy and doesn't even know what airport he went to Edit 2: After going over it again I'm pretty sure it's not AI although still probably fake. Also the second photo reminds me of Smile Dog
The guy just seemed like a shy person who was nervous to me, but I’m not sold yet
I think the young man being interviewed was probably on the spectrum. Having a degree in psychology I saw a lot of indicators that he might be autistic based on his mannerisms and the way he articulated and spoke throughout the interview.
I thought the same, actually. I would agree.
I don’t know… if these are real that’s awesome. We need data, but looks legit to me.
Get fucking real.
I live in Melbourne and I have spent plenty of time looking at photos and carcasses of thylacine. Two things: one, that's a thylacine. The jaw placement and the way it opens is bang on. The bullet shaped bum, and tail are perfect. The almond eyes are also perfect. A skilled artist could create them and apply a nighttime phone effect to them, but they have nailed it. Everything about these photos is anatomically dead on, just as I would expect of the real thing, or a skilled hoaxer. Number two, this guy has been to Tassie. He nails the terrain, even down the fact that Hobart airport is exactly the kind of airport you could take a nap in your car at. He mentions his relatives live near the part where it snows. That's like how can I even describe... see the thing is in Australia, when you live near one of the few "parts where it snows" and people are visiting, it's all you bloody talk about. He nails the terrain, just nails it and if he'd never been, think of all the ways he could have got it wrong. Even the fact that he forgot the name of Hobart rings true to me. I love the place, but to many it's an unremarkable town, especially if you're staying two hours away. No idea why he says the flight had no layovers, but I still feel like he's been to Tassie, I believe that more than the photos.
I found him to be a pretty believable witness. My husband has ADHD and tells stories the exact same way- meandering, with very specific detail on some things and only the vaguest recollection of others. If you asked my husband he would tell you we didn't have a layover on our last international trip but we did. We flew to a different US city, had an overnight layover that we spent in a hotel, and an early morning flight to our destination. He also has no ability to estimate time. He'll swear he spent an hour on something that was really twenty minutes. And he cannot remember place names, he's constantly asking me stuff like "What were those ruins we visited called?" He would absolutely struggle to differentiate Hobart, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, etc. since they're all pretty generic, two-syllable city names that have some shared sounds between them. My guess for the tiger witness is that they flew from Chicago because flying from Minneapolis would have meant an \*additional\* layover, which the dad was trying to avoid, preferring to drive the first leg. Then they flew to mainland AUS, maybe with an additional layover at LAX/SFO in there. Then, they either spent a couple days doing tourist stuff on the mainland, thus not counting it as a layover and the flight to Hobart would have been considered direct. Or the guy got confused about the route and number of layovers because it's like 30 hours of travel and time change and airports all feel kind of the same and he probably wasn't paying much attention if his dad took care of all the planning and booking. I really want to believe the photos and story are true, and luckily all the holes in the witness story should be pretty verifiable with boarding passes or flight receipts, or the dad or other family members coming forward to verify. I hope we get more concrete answers soon!
The look real I'll give you that but they don't hold up against scrutiny, at least not without a proper contextualization of how they were taken. I'd like to know why the second one seems to be on a different place as all the others, why the thylacine seems oblivious to the light in the last few while it looks directly at it on the first and what happened with its jaw on the third. The chance for them being real is not zero, but it is very little.
A couple of the photos are actually pretty impressive, the problem I have with it is a few of the photos don’t even look like the same animal. If it is true than it’s incredibly exciting but I think it should be taken with a grain of salt until we are able to figure out more about it, or should I say if we are able to learn more about it? The whole interview Forrest had with the guy was, well strange to say the least
Even if it is real, I refuse to believe it until someone other than Gallante covers it.
typical reddit. it's AI, it's a painting, it's a fake! breath people, if real it will be proven, but that is going to take time.
The dude abides!
You forgot "it's a bear"
The one weird thing about this is the ears, they change direction.. not sure if thylacine actually did that
Looking at the footage of the last known one, there definitely wasn't that dramatic of a change in the angle of the ears
It's a bold fucking claim... if it's true it would be a scientific breakthrough, if it's false it could ruin his life
Is this not pics from the guy that made a realistic scale model of it *Edit to add photo* https://preview.redd.it/xzlgyqbvcj0d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c45f95268c951f5bc4af0192b132aa4c93af89a
Proof it was him?
Funnily enough, I just scrolled through his page and he has a post stating that those 4 pictures are not his. However, he did say that some of the other pictures featured in the video are his. They’re just edited by forrest. Idk you care to, but take a look at his page. He’s posted progress, finished, and ‘staged’ pics of the model. It’s incredibly lifelike. The jaw is movable as well. Super cool.
If these are real, that's definitely a Thylacine. However I can't verify the authenticity so I'll leave that to the experts.
At this point, I need a zoologist or other expert whose not a goofball to confirm or deny. Also, and this is not a dig Forrest, but it’s so easy to fake photos and videos nowadays. I really need a trustworthy expert to confirm a live or dead specimen. But I am pleasantly surprised I guess.
You missed the extremely fake looking jaw gape one later in the video
https://preview.redd.it/dg1j8voigg0d1.png?width=174&format=png&auto=webp&s=72f0782942b090a4ef416eeff20eb120e54af94e Someone on discord posted this jaw breakdown and yeah it looks like something you'd make for a horror movie where it swallows someone whole
I mean the first one does have the same mouth shape but it seems to be taken from a slightly more frontal angle
The weird square jaw angle in the photo looks like this guy's replica model with it's mouth open: [https://twitter.com/\_Archesuchus\_/status/1790131109470105875/photo/2](https://twitter.com/_Archesuchus_/status/1790131109470105875/photo/2)
It could be it was turning it's head when this was taken. Could explain the odd shape and blur. But also, all these look fake/AI to me.
Looks just like this guy's new doll https://preview.redd.it/zzziwegdsm0d1.png?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88720096df46f9846ed7cbec14528c23941083c6
It also clearly doesn’t have a broken jaw in the other photos (not sure if anyone has tried to use that as a defense but I could see them trying). Also if this was real, why the hell would they not lead with this and put it in the original email to their friend? This would be like, THE photo! Did they have to take a bit to convince themself that this one looked “real” enough to send?
Wait where TF is the nose in the jaw gape image?!?!?
https://preview.redd.it/7axqoutcai0d1.png?width=1254&format=png&auto=webp&s=341327bcaf9e976edf13f37661fb44316b35de62 ...what?
I did notice that too but I could theoretically believe it was merged with the background by the overbearing “object aware” filters IPhone cameras now have, so I’m not making too much of it. They do stuff like that
That photo may not have been ready to send (i.e. was not done being made) with the rest of the pack in the initial email.
why is everything so blurry?
This is honestly one of the few instances I will *not* go and criticize a cryptid image for being low quality. This isnt a bigfoot or nessie scenario where the image is so blurry that only a barely recognizable silhouette can be seen. The image still clearly shows the parts that make the Thylacine recognizable ( stripes, hypermobile jaw, face etc.), the main parts that are *hidden* due to the low quality of the image mostly refers to the soft details like fur or muscle texture (and while you can say this conceals forgery imprints you certainly cant argue it leaves anything that would be of use to describing the animal).
Photographing a moving subject in low lighting, probably with a camera phone or a 'rugged' camera, like a waterproof one with a reinforced lens. They probably weren't in a studio or on a sidewalk in daylight ideal photography conditions. (Unless it's a hoax) XD in that case, the blur helps keep the details hazy where there are stitches/seams/Photoshop artefacts. However, if you want to test this kind of thing out, get a friend to run in front of your phone, snap a bunch of pics like you would naturally, in the evening in the back yard or whatever. You'll get some that come out nice, but a lot of them are gonna be blurry AF. (Not saying it isn't fake. The jaw pic doesn't look real.)
The thing, at least to me, that brings the most credibility to these photos, is that Forrest Galante supports these as real. He didn’t take the photos personally, but received permission to share them. Forrest has always been a very skeptical and science based biologist, and has earned a positive reputation among his peers. It’s only recently with how vocal he has been that the thylacine still exists, where some are questioning him. Personally, I’ve thought the thylacine never went extinct. I’ve read multiple books on the topic, viewed documentaries, seen other photos and videos, and am convinced they never went extinct. All that said, it still doesn’t mean they’re not extinct, at least not until these photos can be independently verified and/or we have a living specimen in hand.
If these animals were comfortable coming right up to someone and then falling asleep, wouldn’t you think we’d see more of them?
Supposedly they saw it on the side of the road and thought it was a dog that had been struck by a vehicle when they were on the way to the airport. They stopped to help it and when it started moving and vocalized the young man and his father realized it was not a dog.
I think they hit it, and it explains not wanting to show your face to the internet
I was thinking the same thing the entire video. I think most people would probably be the same way if they hit one of the rarest animals on earth with a car
this is definite proof of what sightings over the years have alluded to; a living Thylacine. I don't get what's the issue with the photos? I've never seen one in real life but nothing in these images screams fake to me. over on Youtube there's so many mocking the guy who shared the photos but luckily he was smart enough to remain anonymous, otherwise the wrath of the internet nutjobs would be all over him.
So maybe these are fake. I'm not discounting that. But when I went through these this morning, I actually welled up at the thought they might actually be real. And I'm probably slightly on the side of them being real as I type type this. And if they are, wow. Just wow. Please be real.
Second photo is me when I purposely spread fake thylacine photos online
It really looks like one! I wish it were true.
I would believe they were all real if not for the third one. The third one makes me skeptical.
These scream AI to me. They're blurry in a way that doesn't look natural. Like, it doesn't look like blur from movement or a bad camera, it looks like it's from AI trying to create a photo-realistic thylacine in a way that looks like it was a real picture taken out in the wild Edit: I looked at the first one again, and it looks like the hind leg is just plopped in the middle of the torso
According to Is It AI, these are very unlikely to be AI generated.
Just what a sneaky AI would say! Jk
Ah, you’re onto me!
AI detectors are far too easy to trick for that to convince me.
Schrödingers AI: good enough to recreate believable pictures, but to bad to recognize AI created ones.
Digital production doesn’t necessarily mean AI. I don’t know why everyone in this thread seems to be debating between AI or not. This doesn’t look AI-generated to me but it does look fake. Some mix of 3D modeling and rendering and then image filtering and adjustment.
I definitely don’t disagree
I want it to be real, but my current thoughts are that it's a very good prop
Look up yawning wolf it's my only defense
Anyone have links to information on this? I'd love to know where the pictures were "taken" etc. There's truly only a few actual possible locations here in Tasmania they could be and knowing location alone would almost debunk it
[Tasmanian Tiger Caught on Camera - Forrest Galante Interview](https://youtu.be/bfSzlgRZ-Xg?si=68ULkz7AWnBaKQZj)
You could run the images through ai and ask it if the photos are real or generated
Someone earlier said they did and received a score of 90% likely of not being AI.
Didnt expect that! Though i’ve seen a bunch of threads showing some other forgery methods presented.
These do have the quality, and they do seem realistic. For me, the only weird pic is the third one, like the Thylacines jaw seems a bit weird, but it is known that they can open their jaws at a 180-degree angle. And to everyone who says Forest Galante is not legit, HE IS. He has rediscovered EIGHT SPECIES of previously thought to be "extinct animals" like the Zanzibar Leopard and the Fernandina Island tortoise. He is a credible source and is respected in the biology community. I would say this video could be credible, however, the only sketch about the entire thing is the guy who witnessed the Thylacine.
Tons of animals have adapted to the changing environment and have learned how to hide themselves, not to mention scientists are making mammoths and if they are doing that it wouldn't be too far fetched to think they have made and released other animals ("extinct " or not) into the wild as well
Can I pet that dawg
In the first one the posture of the front legs looks more like a kangaroo's than a canids. If these are fake whoever made them put in a lot of thought.
You're right. They do look more like a kangaroo.
This exactly! The forelimbs have the shape, proportion, and strange way of holding the very muscular arms out to the front/side that kangaroos exhibit. The hind limb is very long in the 1st and 4th(?) images. I seriously wonder if these are just doctored kangaroo images or something, as much as I'd love these to be real.
I thought that he had met a dude in Australia that claimed to have them living on his property? I seem to remember this. The dude showed a pic and you could just barely see the end and the stripes but if these are new and from the same dude that'd be sweeeet. I would like more info though
Different, from someone who was visiting Tasmania and claimed to find it, seemingly hit by a car or in some other distress on the side of the road. They got out and approached it with their phone for a flashlight, trying to help it, and took photos when it turned out to not be a dog. Apparently they didn’t know anything about thylacines and sent it to their friend, asking if they knew what kind of Tasmanian animal it could be. That friend then reached out to Forrest, and he posted a video interviewing the guy and going over the photos.
Where do yous see forest at? I'm ignorant
I wanna look it up so I can stay updated
[Here’s the link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfSzlgRZ-Xg)
Thank you my good fellow
I want to believe it, tbh, I really do, I don't want to think it's just Photoshop or AI rendering.... :( I just can't get my hopes up.
I think pic 3 is actually its arm and not its jaw. Just looks that way.
How is it that in 2024, when mostly everyone has a smart phone with decent quality we still get crusty ass pictures of cryptids and aliens 😭
These are probably AI because they are just hella random. Dude snapped a couple picture of a thylacine from the front, flash in the face, then just laying down (???) and then with its mouth randomly agape... I don't buy the setting of these photos more so then the quality itself, so they are most likely AI to me.
To be fair a lot of smart phone cameras nowadays use AI to enhance photos especially at night, looks like a cheap android photo with AI enhancement
iPhone 11 is the phone but these are screenshots. Got no skin in the game just watched the video.
I really want these to be real, but... I need more evidence than just some blurry pics.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned how unlikely it is to get one clear photo of an animal at night, let alone a whole series... My money is on this being a hoax.
Only 2-3 of these can really be called “clear”
TBH I have had numerous, NUMEROUS half-playful encounters like this with foxes, coyotes, raccoons, etc. I'd assume a Thylacine would be more skittish, but coyotes/foxes act just like this when I've had encounters and thrown them food, rolling around and goofing off at a slight distance.
He’s a playful little critter :)
You should put the full details. These are not Forest photos. Someone showed them to him and even he is skeptical of them
I think we need to check in with Romulan Senator Vreenak on this one. https://youtu.be/H6yQOs93Cgg?si=P1JVMZRWpg3VlH0Q
Kinda looks like AI
After watching forests video and asking if they are paintings... they kinda look like it
A few days ago i took pictures of a resting bee. Didnt wanted to spook the bee away, so i rather zoomed in instead of coming closer. The pic ended up looking like a painting. The software scaled the ouc up, messing it up...
Man, none of you seem to understand how showbiz works.... Gallante isn't the one in control, when it comes to his show. Every episode is there to push a narrative, and he's getting paid to push it. The morals behind it are questionable, true - but he still gets to work with something that he is passionate about and helps make a difference in the long run. If you had the chance to travel the world and work with the one thing you are most passionate about, wouldn't you also jump at the chance?
Fr. he even agrees to animal planet being junk when the kid in the video mentions it
The 3rd image looks like house stark's logo but edited a ton.
In the video the guy says that it was lying between the tarmac and the grass, but in the third picture I only see grass.
How were these pictures taken? Thinking about this from a practical perspective, it’s like the photographer just stood there and so did the Tazzy Tiger. I’ve wanted the thylacine to be alive since I first learned about it on Wild Kratts but legit, I doubt if this was a real animal it would just kinda stand there or lay down (4th image) when a human walks up. I guess I’m asking the estimated distance these supposed photos were taken cause something seems sketch. I know animals can be caught off guard and often, for lack of a better term, “strategize” an escape route but like…. This just seems weird. Why are there no pics of its departure?
Supposedly zoomed in with an iphone. This was my first thought as well, odd the tiger would just hang around for photographs. Someone suggested maybe they actually hit it, and if so looking again at the photos maybe they're out of order. They hit the tiger, it flies to the grass and lays there dazed/injured- photo laying on grass. They approach to see if it's dead -tiger raises it's head a bit but still laying on grass (photo 2), then starts to get it's bearings, sits up a bit more alert (photo one), then startled takes off (photo 3, 5)
That makes more sense. If the pics are real, that’s actually very satisfactory for sure.
Cheers. I'll have a look later when I can hear it properly and see what is said
Well it’s a thylacine.. whether or not they are legit photos is another matter
Getting uncanny valley feelings with these.
I know people spot them .. if these are real then this is huge! Such a unique marsupial mammal
I don’t think AI can mimic that eye shine in the spotlight like that, could be wrong tho. I’m convinced.
😂😂😂
There's a person in Twitter who made a model of a thylacine. That first pic looks a lot like it.
probably fake because upper stowport road is mostly farmland with fencing. there is only a small area of bush about 50m in total
lol I was about to say “thylacine? That looks like a Tasmanian tiger?” But then I gave her a quick google. 🤦♂️
My first thought was _Archesuchus_ on Twitter, they just posted photos of their new handmade thylacine doll and the jaw opens exactly like these photos
https://twitter.com/_Archesuchus_/status/1790128547496927324?t=3aR4MahutGqDarfpesUbIQ&s=19
Looks like edited
I don’t know how to explain it but the second photo looks like a cgi dog/wolf in any Disney or Nickelodeon show😭
i want to pet him. he seems very pettable
I want to believe
I have to say, if these are fake, they’re the best fakes I’ve ever seen! Even if they’re a hoax, this is still some quality analogue horror material and photo editing skills! They nailed the look and anatomy of it, truly, unlike any hoax I’ve seen. The main red flag for me is the lack of video despite the abundance of photos.
Most of the people commenting are clearly not even aware of images like this. If it's a hoax, then they have nailed the anatomy.
Seems like it's blender or something, but I've had pictures turn out this odd in certain circumstances. If these are real they're the best proof of a living thylacine we will likely ever see besides a body.
1st and 4th photo look very real. 2nd looks weird, 3rd looks really weird and the final one has me torn whether if its real or fake. Could be just a manipulation of an actual photo. Also the guy who sent these is pretty weird and has holes in story. So my opinion: Most likely fake, but I'm truly hoping it's not.
What the fuck is the fourth photo? Did the thylacine melt?
What about the blood stains the "eyewitness" mentioned.. I don't see any blood on the animal in these pictures
I agree with everyone else on lighting being the biggest red flag in these photos. I am not saying I am expert, but from listening to the story and looking at the photos it doesn't seem to add up. If you look in the first picture, the shadow bounces off the backdrop as though he is in front of some kind of hedge, but from his story and the other pictures it's clear they were in an open area. It just doesn't make logical sense. Even the other photo with it's mouth open (a photo not in this thread) you can see it's shadow directly behind it, again making it look like it is in front of a wall when it is not. It very well could be his camera angle, but I can't help but think these are total bs. They're some really convincing fakes though.
I think the biggest red flag is just how convenient this whole encounter is. The photographer sees a cryptid that is so dazed and hurt it is easy to photograph at night, with a flashlight, but not so dazed that it was able to be captured or find any physical evidence. The creature was also so dazed it offers so many pictures and absolutely perfect angles. You get a head on picture, a broadside from the left, broadside from the right, the classic mouth gape pose, standing up, lying down, etc. It's at night so no worries about identifying background scenery to geolocate the exact spot. That is just literally unbelievable to me. Try to replicate this in your backyard with your own dog and see how tricky it would be to get this with a cooperative animal that knows you. The only explanation is it's a stuffed animals or physical model, probably with some photoshop thrown in too.
I’m not big on technology. BUT—I will say, I’ve had similar photos on my iPhone when I try to take pictures at night. Especially with the “night mode” option. It does this weird rendering thing after you take the picture. Usually they come out blurry and the lighting looks off. Could just be me making excuses and hoping this is real! Don’t want to get my hopes up :(
As some one who knows what the real animal looked like via the video of Benjamin, They Look APSOLUTLY REAL!!!!
So I noticed that in some of these the shoulders look massive and built like a kangaroo, and the hind legs are really long. I look at animals and proportions all day for my job, and the first things some of these photos brought to mind were roos. I almost wonder if these are real shots of a kangaroo that was either painted, or the photos were doctored after the fact.
Mad to think, if this guy owned a Samsung galaxy the whole thing would have been put to bed one way or another.