Famous video of a thylacine in captivity may not depict the last member of the species after all, according to new research. Australian scientists have rediscovered the preserved remains of a later ...

In short: A Tasmanian artist has collaborated with the University of Melbourne to create a space that poses the ethical question of whether humans should bring back the thylacine. The Not Natural ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Pretend Base Camp One is near the Weld River Valley, a formidable wilderness in southern Tasmania where driven men have risked their ...

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 thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was declared extinct in 1936. But anecdotal reports of sightings of the marsupial inspired a recent media frenzy, leading to speculation that some might still ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

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 ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 14, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. There's the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. And in the Himalayas, there's the yeti, the ...

They're the words so many of us would love to be true. And when we heard them (again) this week, this time in the title of a video posted to YouTube by the president of the Thylacine Awareness Group ...