What its species name means: Thylacinus cynocephalus means "dog-headed pouched dog." The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that once ...

Scientists may be a few steps closer to resurrecting a long-extinct carnivorous marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger. Colossal Biosciences, a company known for its genetic research to "de-extinct" ...

Will this trio of expert discover the marsupial that was declared extinct 80 years ago? Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...

Swedish scientists retrieved RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger to help trace the genes that were active in the animal’s ...

Nearly 80 years after it was thought to have gone extinct, multiple witnesses have reported seeing a Tasmanian tiger. According to a newly released document from Tasmania's Department of Primary ...

Researchers in the U.S. and Australia are teaming up to find a way to reintroduce the marsupial species, which went extinct in the 1930s The Tasmanian tiger could start roaming the outback again.

The last Tasmanian tiger, an individual named Benjamin, died a lonely death of exposure in an empty, cold cage in a zoo in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1936. The coyote-size animal—the last marsupial apex ...

Tasmanian tigers were hunted to extinction decades ago, but a recent scientific breakthrough has raised hope that the animal and potentially other long-lost species could one day be resurrected.

Even if humans hadn't hunted the Tasmanian tiger to extinction, its low genetic diversity may have naturally doomed the curious marsupial, researchers have found. "We found that the thylacine had even ...

The grainy footage was filmed in the Tasmanian wilderness in November last year by Adrian Richardson, Greg Booth and his father George Booth, who kept the location secret to prevent others from ...