| THYLCOLEO |
| THE MARSUPIAL LION |
| The Thylcoleo is a carniverous marsupial that was thought to have died out about 10,000 years ago on the main land of Australia. It was a fearsom animal about the size of a puma, it had pretuding fags, a pouch that faced the opposite way. It would catch and kill its prey and drag it up a tree to eat it. There have been reports of a creature called the Queensland tiger, it was first reported by a number of witnesses around the Queensland's Cardwell Bay district. An early account came from a police magistrate Brinsley G. Sheridian, whose 13 year-old son had come across the animal during a walk along the Rockingham Bay. The boys dog picked up the sent of the animal and followed it for approximately half a mile. The boy spotted it lying in long grass and was the size of a native dog (dingo, a wild dog found in Australia) its face was round like thet of a cat it had a long tail and its body was stripped from the ribs under the belly with yellow and black. The animal grabbed the small dog and through it when it got to close and retreated up a leaning tree. the animal then savagely rushed towards the boy and his dog, they both turned and ran for their lives. A naturalist named George Sharpe wittnesed the Queensland tiger along side the Tully River in the early part of the 20th century. He said "larger and darker than a Tasmanian tiger, with stripes showing very distincly." Not long afterwould a farmer killed a simular animal after it attacked his goats. Sharpe followed it's tracks in to the bush until he came across the live-less animal. By the time he got to the animal the wild pigs had eaten most of the head and body, there was enought left of the animal to show it was about 5 ft long. Unforturnally Sharp had nothing to preserve the animal with and it soon rotted away. A long time resident of York Peninsula, Lon L. Idriess reported seeing a "tiger" rip out the insides of a fully grown kangaroo. Another time Idriess found the body of such a animal along the Alice River, were it died in a fight with his hunting dog, which had allso lay dead near by. Idriess described the tiger- like animal as the size of a hefty medium size dog. Its body is lithe and sleek and beautifully stripped in black and grey. The animals pads are armed with lance like claws of great tearing strenght. Its ears are sharp and pricked, and its head is shaped like a tiger. The sighting of this animal are very rare though they continue through to the present day. Some zoologist think that the discription of the Queensland tiger is very simular to the Thylacoleo right down to animals pretuding fangs. Could the Thyacoleo have survived in pockets of Queensland, There have been some very good eyewitness reports I supose if the Tasmanian tiger is hiding in the forests of Tasmania why not the Mursupial Lion in Queensland. REFERENCES / Stange &Unexplaned Happenings. vol 2 Clark Jerome Pear Nanny. An International Thompson Pubilshing Company. |
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| By Jeff Fausch Paranormal Field Investigators. |