Trust me if there was even a shred of truth to that the "dog" wouldn't be on PetFinders, it would be in a lab being studied to find out how marsupials and mammals mated to produce offspring and why it wasn't in Tasmania, and try to figure out how an African Wild Dog managed to find the only living tasmanian wolf across continents to breed with. It's a crock and either someone found it funny as a joke or they aren't too bright and thought it to be true. Either way it's false.