This is important - thylacine news

[RevolverRob]

It's looking like it's probably a deepfake...
https://www.newsweek.com/extinct-tas...expert-1901144

I would like to, to borrow a recent phrase here on P-F, hit the designers of these AI algorithms until candy comes out.

It’s about time you got in here 😁. Personally, I think the thylacines are low hanging fruit; I’ve been waiting for this news.

Australia/Tasmania/New Zealand/PNG are the places where I most expect to find extinct animals. Though realistically the Amazon, the Congo, and other relatively inhospitable places have high probabilities as well.

But what we don't know that we don't know about animal biology is awesome. The species I worked on for my dissertation was supposedly, "nocturnal and only found in sagebrush habitat in the western US and in low abundance." - Until we started catching them well above sagebrush patches at dawn and dusk in high volume. Now it's "crepuscular with broad ecological niche in higher than anticipated abundance."

Or everything we thought we knew was wrong and everything we know now is probably wrong too...

[Boxy]

I thought it was more water contamination at Camp Lejeune.

[Guerrero]

I would like to, to borrow a recent phrase here on P-F, hit the designers of these AI algorithms until candy comes out.

That was me. Glad you liked it. I find that phrase immensely useful.

I thought LL was talking about some new vitamin we needed to take.


"Now with even more thylacine!"

Well, that is what the thread wants... more thylacine.

[RevolverRob]

That was me. Glad you liked it. I find that phrase immensely useful.

I read it out loud to Mrs. RR last night and it immediately entered our household lexicon.

[GlockenSpiel]

Thylacines have been big with the algorithms this past month or two, so the timing of this is very suspicious to me.