"First Verified Footage" of Extant Thylacine?

The Australian is reporting on video footage that purportedly shows a thylacine (aka Tasmanian tiger).

The article says:

"An animal captured on a grainy video has a 'one in three chance' of being a thylacine, according to wildlife expert asked to verify the image.

"The footage was released earlier today [Sept. 6] by three men who said they believed it was 'the first verified footage' of a thylacine since the last known of the species was filmed in captivity in 1932.

"'I don't think it's a thylacine - I know it is a thylacine,' said Adrian 'Richo' Richardson, a retired soldier who has been searching for the Tasmanian tiger for 26 years.

"However, an independent verification by experience wildlife biologist Nick Mooney found the animal, filmed at a distance by and automatic camera trap, was most likely not a thylacine.

"'I am happy to suggest that based on this limited analysis of the film, there is perhaps a one in three chance the image is of a thylacine,' Mr Mooney said in his report.

"He concluded the animal in the footage, recorded on November 4 last year on an old forestry track about 50km from Meydena, north-east of Hobart, was either a small thylacine or a very large spotted-tailed quoll.

"Three men - Mr Richardson and local son and father Greg and George Booth - had placed 14 cameras in the area after Greg Booth saw what he said he firmly believed was a thylacine there on April 3, 2015. 

"'She sat down not he track and looked at me from about three meters,' said Greg Booth, a firewood cutter. 'I could see the pouch and scars on her face … and the colors.'

"The last known thylacine died in captivity in Hobart's Beaumaris Zoo on September 7, 1936, and the species is presumed extinct.

"However, sightings of the carnivorous marsupial have continued since. Images have surfaced previously but have all been inconclusive or found to be of other animals or hoaxes.

"The tiger-searching team said the timing of the release of the video - one day before the 81st anniversary of the death of the last known thylacine - was a coincidence." 

You can check out the video over on  The Australian. Let me know what you think!