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

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 ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

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 ...

Hunted to extinction by early European settlers in Australia, the Tasmanian tiger (or thylacine) tells a cautionary tale of conservation, but according to a new study led by the University of ...

Little is known about the thylacine, aka the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf. Humans killed them off of Tasmania so quickly that the animals went extinct before we could properly conserve them. But ...