The extinction of the thylacine: could some still survive? !enter image description here (Image comes from Wikimedia Commons) The last known thylacine died in 1936, and the species was officially moved from 'endangered' to 'extinct' in the 1980s. Since the last living specimen died, there have been well over 3000 reported sightings, some with photographic evidence, of living animals. Unlike many other cryptozoological animals, like bigfoot or Ogopogo, thylacines are (or were) real animals. Is there any evidence that some animals still survive in the less populated areas of Tasmania or mainland Australia?

There have been no recorded thylacine sightings on mainland Australia in modern (European) times. Tasmania is certainly its last hope, and that hope is very small indeed. What might be called "reliable" evidence such as tracks, scat and vocalizations were last recorded during searches in the 1960s, although these were inconclusive. Since then it's been reported sightings only, occasionally accompanied by dubious photographic evidence.

While it's likely that individual thylacines lived beyond the 1930s, it's essentially impossible, ecologically speaking, that any remnant population was large enough to sustain the species to the present day.