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You're listening to Episode 251 of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World.

We'll look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about the cryptid known as the thylacene

or Tasmanian tiger. I'm Dom Betanelli and Joining me today is Jimmy Aiken. Hey Jimmy.

Howdy Dom. For thousands of years, humans and creatures known as thylacines or

Tasmanian tigers lived alongside each other in Australia and neighboring lands.

But their population was gradually getting smaller.

In 1936, the last known thylacene tragically died in a zoo.

But reports of thylacines in the wild continued. In fact, there have been thousands of such reports,

and although it's officially extinct, many think the thylacene is still secretly living in the wild.

Consequently, it's been called the healthiest extinct animal you'll ever see,

and others are planning to use modern DNA technology to bring them back.

What do we know about thylacines? Do they still exist? And when will we have them?

That's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World.

Today's episode deals with an Australian mystery, so it's going to be a crossover episode.

What would you like to say about that, Jimmy?

Well, we've done Australian mysteries before, like Episode 73 on Summerton Man,

whose identity is now finally known, and as I predicted, it turned out that DNA testing would

eventually reveal his identity. It now appears that he was an electrical engineer named Carl

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