Thylacines — marsupials known as Tasmanian tigers — were declared extinct decades ago, but efforts to find one in the wild ...

Tasmanian tigers went extinct because of humans' actions. Around 5,000 thylacines lived on Tasmania when Europeans started clearing land for settlements in the early 1800s. The British set up ...

Colossal Biosciences, a company known for its genetic research to "de-extinct" several species thought lost to time, announced last week that it has assembled the most complete Tasmanian tiger ...

How extinction is not a natural inevitability but a political choice — and why ‘species revivalism’ might not be the answer ...

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

A taxidermic specimen of a thylacine imaged using tintype photography. The last known 'Tasmanian tiger' died in 1936, but a group of scientists want to bring the animal back.

An old film from the last century captures the life of what would be the last of a very common Australian animal species.

The South Island giant moa may be Colossal Biosciences' next de-extinction project - but scientists caution the outcome won't ...

“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...

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 ...