Coast to Coast AM with George Noory

Coast to Coast AM with George Noory

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Unearthed Thylacine Skin Sold for Whopping Sum

A family in New Zealand were pleasantly surprised when they discovered  that they had been unknowingly in possession of a valuable Tasmanian  Tiger skin for decades. The precious pelt had reportedly been part of a private collection of wildlife pieces that were amassed  by a man named Archie Robertson in the 1920's. Amazingly, the thylacine  skin had been kept in a desk drawer of the family's home for an  astounding 76 years without anyone realizing the rare nature of the  item.

Eventually, Robertson's collection, including the pelt, was loaned to a  taxidermy museum in 1999 where, once again, it went largely unnoticed  for nearly two decades. Finally, it caught the attention of some college  students who were visiting the site last year and identified the  uniquely-striped skin as being that of the long lost Tasmanian Tiger. A  later examination of the pelt by experts determined that it is one of  the best-preserved specimens of the believed-to-be-extinct creature in  existence.

Find out the jaw-dropping amount that the skin was sold for at the Coast to Coast AM website.


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