#thylacine

why-animals-do-the-thing:

ncbi-nlm-nih-dot-gov:

This is a very niche complaint, but recently there’s been another thylacine sighting photo which is very fucking obviously a fox. But cryptid hunters aren’t interested in familiarizing themselves with the basic anatomy of the animal they’re trying to prove exists, they’d rather just spread misinformation and willfully ignore correct information. 

Case in point: a thylacine’s metatarsals are short, very much so! as the photos in the bottom row show. Compared with the hock of a fox, the differences are obvious.

A fox with mange does look weird. When we see animals without fur they can sometimes seem alien. That’s why people still go on about the montauk monster, even though it’s very obviously a racoon. That’s why that sloth with mange was described as a strange alien creature instead of a sloth with mange. 

So when one of these thylacine photos pops up, I immediately look at the hock. And 10 times out of 10, it’s a fucking fox. Mange and wishful thinking won’t make a fox into a thylacine. End of story.

We’ve talked about the potential Thylacine sightings before on the blog (I’m still pretty sure they’re truly extinct, given all current evidence) but this is a great bit of information about what you want to look for when new video or photographic evidence from a presumed sighting comes out. 

Incoming charity sticker design for the year of the (tasmanian) tiger

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Cameras won’t catch a Thylacine

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Some recent “sightings” of Tasmanian tigers/Thylacines inspired this idea. The last of its kind died in a zoo in 1936.
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Eternal Sleep

Thylacines are also called Tasmanian tigers, and they went extinct like a hundred years ago. They weren’t really tigers, which you should be able to tell from looking at the god damn pictures. They were like giant murderous koala dogs or something. If you need someone to tell you that they lived on Tasmania you’re unforgivably dumb, but maybe you’re just not good at geography so you get a ONE TIME PASS if you didn’t know that Tasmania is an Australian island. Australia+Island is basically nature’s perfect formula for creating a nightmare beast, so of course thylacines were fucking carnivorous marsupials who looked like dogs and could hop like kangaroos and tuck their balls into pouches. Those weird fucking jaws are all show though, because apparently they didn’t have bite pressure for SHIT and died because they weren’t strong enough to bite a damn sheep to death. I’m pretty sure that I could bite a sheep to death, and I didn’t even have braces. 

paintingdragonfeathers:

In between convention prep, I’ve been working on some watercolor studies/warmups to reacquaint myself with the media; I needed to remember how not to be so heavy-handed with the coloring.

I’m getting the hang of it again, and this is my favorite so far. I might end up keeping this one, lol.

Small paintings like this will be available at Scifi Valley con come June.

christinaboothbooks:

#workinghard #thylacine #extinctionisforever #onecarelessnight #kidlitart #kidlit #illustration

reapersun:

I forget this too often so I made this to help me remember.

rolypolypellmell:

The thylacine specimen at the Museum Aquarium de Nancy is posed more like a kangaroo.

they inverted the pouch to be more like a kangaroo too that’s so weird

thylacine-dreams:

Thylacine skull from the Museum of New Zealand.

apexdraws:

The reality is really starting to hit. Do you have any regrets?

(It’s vent art, but you’re free to relate to it and reblog it for any reason)

lilcreatures:

A quick stroke of the dude :)

hellosummertea:

A 6x4” watercolor done one night a weeks back as practice. The Thylacine, my all time favorite extinct animal that turned into a scapegoat. 

Edited versions of my old thylacine woodcuts :)
I got a few messages about the availability of prints and since my Etsy shop is still in a wip state, I added them to my Redbubble profile. (But I wanted them to fit my current style a bit better, that’s why i changed them up a little. I think they look better this way)

Thylacine Woodcut

Thylacine Woodcut

Thylacine Woodcut

Sketchbook

Thylacine from memory 

Lykos- Character belongs to faunaforge over on twitter

Pridelacines now available on RedBubble! Show your stripes ❤

Esida

Had some time, so i finished this one of Esida, it is a bit of a redraw of an old colored pencil drawing of her from 2016.