Could the Tasmanian tiger be hiding out in New Guinea?

Mongobay.com ^ | May 20, 2013 | Jeremy Hance

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"Could be. In New Guinea it was thought by the European colonial powers that the highlands were basically deserted and that all the population was on the coasts. But the highlands turned out to be the most populated. So if people were only discovered there in the 1930’s, who can say what still is to be found there?"

I've read that the population of New Guinea is separated by DNA and elevation. This same scientist speculated that as various groups (in prehistory) migrated there the previous occupants were driven (or retreated) higher into the highlands...and, that this seems to have occurred 2-3 different times.

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New Type of Ancient Human Found—Descendants Live Today?

Evolution's "new twist": Neanderthal-like "sister group" bred with humans like us.

. A previously unknown kind of human—the Denisovans—likely roamed Asia for thousands of years, probably interbreeding occasionally with humans like you and me, according to a new genetic study.

In fact, living Pacific islanders in Papua New Guinea may be distant descendants of these prehistoric pairings, according to new analysis of DNA from a girl's 40,000-year-old pinkie bone, found in Siberian Russia's Denisova cave.

The Latest from the Denisovian Cave work has found fossils and DNA from three different human species. Moderns, Neanderthal and Denisovans.

Futher DNA work on the Denisovians indicate that they bred with Neanderthals and some moderns living in New Guinea and Australia but few others...none of their DNA is found outside the above mentioned areas.