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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, ...

An Adelaide thylacine hunter has released a new video he says has captured images of wild Tasmanian tigers. Not everyone agrees. He and fellow members of the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia ...

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, ...

Bringing extinct animals back from the dead is no longer the realm of science fiction but is fast becoming a scientific reality. Around the world, research is ongoing to bring back key species using ...

Was the iconic, extinct creature that once roamed Australia a marsupial wolf or a Tasmanian tiger? By examining bones, researchers have shown that the thylacine was an ambush-style predator that was ...

The much publicised attempt to clone Australia's Tasmanian tiger back from extinction has been scrapped, the Australian Museum says. Australian Museum director Frank Howarth and assistant director ...

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The colorized thylacine footage was created by Australia’s National Film and Sound ...

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 ...