The last Tasmanian tiger died in captivity in 1936. Nearly 100 years later, scientists believe they are on the edge of reviving the species.

Parasites that once feasted on the extinct Tasmanian tiger, otherwise known as the Thylacine, surprisingly still exist today. One of these parasites, a species of flea, has managed to survive even ...

The Tasmanian tiger roamed these parts for thousands of years. More wolf than tiger, it was (is?) a marsupial weighing about 55 pounds… It was also a carnivore… that preyed on farmers' sheep.

If you haven’t heard of the Tasmanian tiger, it’s not because it’s unworthy of discussion: it’s famously not a feline but a dog-like marsupial, a predator that humans hunted to extinction ...

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 ...

Though the Tasmanian devil still lives, it's the tiger that's become a sort of local mascot. Its image adorns Tasmania's coat of arms and the island's license plate.

The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, was once an apex predator of the Australian bushlands. Now, scientists, and Chris Hemsworth, hope to revive it.

For example, Pask says the predator could have been of good use in the 1990s when the Tasmanian devil, another marsupial, was threatened by a transmissible facial cancer, which decreased ...

The Tasmanian devil is a potential candidate for surrogacy of a lab-developed thylacine embryo. This marsupial population faces its own challenges, particularly due to a contagious facial tumor ...

Our Featured Videos A trapper caught an old female Tasmanian tiger and sold it to a zoo in May 1936. The poor creature died a few months later. The zoo gave the body to the museum. And then…nothing.

Researchers from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania, have finally found the long-lost remains of the last known Tasmanian tiger, which have been missing for more than 85 years.

All the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed in a paper to be published on Jan. 13, 2009. The research marks the first successful sequencing of ...