Eighty years ago today, the last Tasmanian tiger died in the Hobart Zoo. It was called Benjamin. Video footage of the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, captures an unusual creature. Bobbing its head and ...
Rare black-and-white footage of the now extinct thylacine has reemerged. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) rediscovered the footage—which is part of a forgotten travelogue from ...
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, ...
The thylacine, more popularly known as the Tasmanian tiger, was an apex predator in Australia and Tasmania before its extinction in the early 20th century. Despite its superficial resemblance to a ...
Scientists have successfully extracted RNA molecules from an extinct species for the first time. The milestone was achieved in the thylacine, a species of carnivorous marsupial that roamed Australia ...