Queensland tiger

In Australian folklore, the Queensland tiger is a creature said to inhabit the Queensland region of eastern Australia. Also known by its native name, yarri, it's described as a dog-sized feline with distinctive stripes, a long tail, prominent front teeth, and a fierce temperament. Some have hypothesized that it could be a surviving population or descendant of the large predatory marsupial Thylacoleo, which is officially considered extinct, while others suggest it might be a variant of a large feral cat (noting possible inconsistencies with thylacoleo dentition). In 1926, A. S. le Souef documented a "Striped marsupial cat" in The Wild Animals of Australasia, information that was later incorporated into Ellis Troughton's Furred Animals of Australia. Troughton served as the longtime curator of mammals at the Australian Museum.