Examining the evidence - for rare fauna

Where Light Meets Dark conducts critical analyses of evidence for the survival of fauna where it is not expected.

This includes examining the evidence for species believed to be extinct, as well as individual animals detected outside their expected range (out of place / OOPs).

Exotic species

	Species	Location	Status
	Big cats	Australia	Out of place

Carnivorous marsupials

	Species	Location	Status
	Thylacoleo carnifex	Australia	Presumed extinct for 30,000 years
	Tasmanian tigers (thylacines)	Mainland Australia and Tasmania	Presumed extinct for 2,000 years on mainland and since 1936 in Tasmania
	Tasmanian devils	Mainland Australia	Presumed extinct for 350 years
	Eastern quolls	Mainland Australia	Presumed extinct since 1963

Australian birds

	Species	Location	Status
	Night parrot	Australia	Specimen collected 1912, sighted 1979, dead specimens found 1990, 2006
	Ground parrot	Sydney basin	Presumed locally extinct since 1890s
	Unusual blue birds	Australia	Blue sparrow photographed April 2009; blue corellas photographed 2008