Good day, mate, and welcome to Mysteries of Science. My name's Dan and I'm the editor of the

Week Junior, Science and Nature, which is the monthly magazine from the team behind the week

junior. And I'm Michael, the acting deputy editor. On this podcast, we investigate weird events,

strange creatures and mysterious places. Today, we're off to the sun and heat of Australia.

In fact the island of Australia called Tasmania and we're going to find out what happened to a strange mystery creature called the thylacine.

Yes the thylacine also known as the Tasmanian tiger went extinct in 1936. However,

there have been sightings reported of it in modern day Australia. So could the Tasmanian tiger

still be alive? Amazing. Let's go on an adventure, down under, and get some answers. This is mysteries of science.

So Michael, what we have here is a kind of monster mystery.

We have a creature, a creature feature you might say.

We have a creature that was alive once upon a time, a real one, but who's extinct.

And we're going to find out whether or not it's actually alive or not, whether it's extinct.

But before we do this, I think we need to have some idea of what the beast looked like.

If we're going to spot it, we need to know what we're searching for.

So you said it's also

known as the Tasmanian tiger. So, I mean, does it look like this? Does it look like a tiger?

Yeah, the tiger on the cover of the latest issue of the Witcher United States Nature. It doesn't look

quite like that. It does have some stripes. Some people also called it the Tasmanian wolf because they said it looked at a bit of a dog-like head.

So it's kind of like a dog wolf tiger mashup.

Right.

Yeah, yeah.

I used to draw those when I was a kid.

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