Sorry, I strongly disagree. Without any overt spoilers, the ending was an outrage - an illustration of human arrogance. There were many ways it could have ended, but not that.
For me, the story was a little too elaborate for its own good. (The film is based on a novel and may have tried to keep too much of its source.) But it addresses a lot of issues. And the rugged landscapes of the film, which was shot in Tasmania, are just the place for an elusive creature to roam. Besides, Willem Dafoe plays the title character. There's a trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgfB9kebFNI
As for thylacines themselves, they've been discussed here and elsewhere. They're probably extinct, but they haven't really left, since they turn up in film and fiction, and they may be coming back, if de-extinction works.
The headline is misleading. Rather, the analysis used as the basis for the article substantiates that the thylacine survived in isolated, remote pockets before finally going extinct around the 1980s.
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Dr. Brook’s analysis found there to be a very small chance that the thylacine is still around today. For that possibility, Mr. Mooney said that even if Tasmanian tigers did persist past 1936, the likelihood of their still being around shrinks all the time. Someone should have found one by now, given the high levels of roadkill in Tasmania and the increasing use of trail cameras in more remote parts.
Dr. Brook agrees that we’re unlikely to discover surviving thylacines.
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For those wondering how it could have survived for decades with no one finding proof, it is hard to overstate how remote and unpopulated parts of Tasmania are. Almost half of the island is a national park, and has almost no roads or settlements. The centre is mountainous. Some spots in the interior require covering dozens of kilometres over cliffs and dense rainforest. Many places have probably never been seen by humans, including the indigenous Tasmanians, who appear to also have kept to the same valleys and plains the colonists initially preferred. It looks like a small island against the mainland, but it's about the area of South Carolina with 600k people, giving a population density just a few times higher than Canada, and less than the continental USA.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 39.3 ms ] threadThough there have been many like it.
As for thylacines themselves, they've been discussed here and elsewhere. They're probably extinct, but they haven't really left, since they turn up in film and fiction, and they may be coming back, if de-extinction works.
" Dr. Brook’s analysis found there to be a very small chance that the thylacine is still around today. For that possibility, Mr. Mooney said that even if Tasmanian tigers did persist past 1936, the likelihood of their still being around shrinks all the time. Someone should have found one by now, given the high levels of roadkill in Tasmania and the increasing use of trail cameras in more remote parts. Dr. Brook agrees that we’re unlikely to discover surviving thylacines. "
https://www.science.org/content/article/giant-australian-ins...