On This Day in Weird, July 3...
2008: Dr. Eric Guiler, world's foremost authority on the
Thylacine, dies in Tasmania at age 85, six years after suffering a severe
stroke. After moving from Ireland in 1947, when Thylacines were already
presumed extinct, Dr. Guiler led searches for evidence of thylacines, finding
footprints, hairs and scats which were donated to the Tasmanian Museum and Art
gallery and still form the basis of research. His two books on the subject are The
Tragedy of the Tasmanian Tiger and Tasmanian Tiger, A Lesson to Be
Learnt.
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