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, ...

It's been decades since Australia's thylacine, known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct and scientists say they've made a breakthrough as they research ways to bring back the carnivore.

The last known thylacine—the largest marsupial carnivore in recent times—died in Tasmania’s Beaumaris Zoo in 1936. But the animal has recently been the target of de-extinction efforts, and now, a team ...

According to Prof Pask, one of the key goals of Colossal Biosciences in bringing back extinct species would be to reintroduce ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? The Tasmanian Tiger, or thylacine, is a carnivorous marsupial that’s been extinct for ...

Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for ...

Colossal Biosciences also intends to resurrect the thylacine and woolly mammoth—an ambitious agenda, considering no extinct species has ever been brought back. reading time 4 minutes Genetic ...

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.

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 female Tasmanian tiger that died in 1936, not a male named Benjamin, was actually the last surviving member of this extinct species. The female's remains had been hidden in museum storage. When you ...

For decades, nobody knew where the remains of the last thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, were located. It turns out they were hiding in plain sight – at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), in ...