Case file · Cryptid
An otter on Tsushima
In 2017 a wildlife camera on Tsushima filmed a wild otter, the first in Japan in 38 years, raising hopes that the extinct Japanese river otter had survived.
2017 CE · 34.42, 129.33 · status: explained
The account
The Japanese river otter was declared extinct in 2012, its last confirmed sighting in Kōchi in 1979. DNA from droppings later showed the Tsushima animals were Eurasian otters, probably arrived from Korea.