The redwoods are now basically a no fly zone, I lost a quetz, and a pter to these b******s. They jump out of the tree, rip you off your mount, and then pin you and your mastercraft armor to the ground and murder you.

My hate for these guys is immeasurable

It all started when I played ark for the first time, I had managed to tame a high level tapejara and absolutely love him. I named him Barry and we set off on many adventure exploring the island. On day I was just flying through the redwoods and usual taunting the carnivores below me for not being able to touch me. BAM the thylacolia jumped out the trees and ripped me off Barry. Barry was whistled on nuetral and as he came down to aid me a desperately tried to get him on passive, but I was panicking, my screen shook as I was terrified as this was my first encounter of one. I tried to punch it but I inevitably died. I respawned and immediately got on my pteradon but just as I got on the saw the message in big red letters that Barry had fallen to the thylacoleo.

My Barry rest in peace

You can't even run from these. Just accept your quick and painful death.

So I just took my pteranodon on a trip around the island and went to the redwoods for funzies and didn’t see a single one of these dudes (granted I flew high just in case and was being paranoid) but uh, props to me (please note that I did a ton of research before flying and that this was my first time lol)

Just fly over the trees and only land in openings when going over redwoods. Learned this lesson the hard way but I only let it happen once!

It's basically the Randy Orton of Ark.

It just RKOS's you outta nowhere...

(We love you Cole! :D)

You can use a snow owl's heat vision ablitiy to see thylas in trees!

Had just finished farming crystals and metal on the mountain in the Redwoods, was flying back to my base with my Argy carrying my Ankylo when one of these f*ckers jumped out of nowhere, pinned me down and killed me. I thought my dinos were done for, flew back as quick as I could with my Ptera and just as I got there luckily my Argy-Ankylo duo managed to kill the oversized cat.

These cats always perfectly land on your back.

Tamed a high level while on a stego. Just keep your stego in hardened plate mode feel free to roam around the redwoods without worrying about microraptors and thylas knocking you off. Yeah stegos are so slow but keeps you safe.