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, ...

This week in 1936, The Thylacine, more commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger, went extinct. The Thylacine was native to Mainland Australia and like many other Australian mammals, was a Marsupial, ...

A new book on the thylacine delves into everything from de-extinction efforts to the internet’s role in increasing the cultural profile of the species – and spreading misinformation about it.

For the first time, researchers have successfully extracted and decoded RNA from an extinct animal. The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was a wolflike marsupial that went extinct after ...

During the filming of one of the last living thylacines, the camerman was bitten on the buttocks by one. THE CAMERAMAN WHO took the famous footage of the last captive Tasmanian tiger was bitten on the ...