Has anyone seen the photos that an ever-anonymous German tourist took, supposedly of a thylacine? His brother gave them to some people to examine, but then took them back again. So no one has been able to authenticate them. The main opinion seems to be that they are of a thylacine; whether they are genuine or not is another story.

Sadly, that photo with that story about the German tourist is the one that Mike Bowers created. What he did was attempt to reproduce the German tourist's photo. The write-up of how he did it is in the story, and the photo is credited to him (look below the picture).

I also thought, when I first read this story, that this was the real photo. Alas, it is not. I don't think that anyone may have seen the real photo except the people to whom it was shown, and they were not allowed to keep it, since the brother of the tourist took it with him.

I studied the photos, and read the various replies on that site. I can only agree with what most of the responders said.

The photos are far too blurry to determine what is in the picture. My digital camera doesn't take photos like that, and my dates and months are always accurate. Having said that, though, I of course want to believe that the explanations for these descrepencies are genuine, as are the photos. However, I really have no idea what I am seeing.