Case file · Cryptid
Queensland marsupial tiger
Witness reports from 1871 described a striped, dog-sized 'marsupial tiger' in north Queensland; the naturalist Carl Lumholtz later recorded the Aboriginal name yarri in the coastal ranges.
1871 CE · -17.25, 145.60 · status: legend
The sceptical view
Feral cats and Lumholtz's and Bennett's tree-kangaroos are suggested explanations. Survival of Thylacoleo, extinct for some 30,000 years, has no fossil support.