U.S. biotech company Colossal Bioscience and the University of Melbourne are collaborating to revive a number of species lost to history Lead scientist Professor Andrew Pask revealed they've now ...

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 once ...

Alistair Evans receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University, and is an Honorary Research Affiliate with Museums Victoria. Justin W. Adams receives funding from the ...

The extinct thylacine had the stripes of a tiger, the body of a canid, and the pouch of a kangaroo. These ill-fated, predatory marsupials are a classic example of convergent evolution, in which ...

The last thylacine, more commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, died in captivity in September 1936, more than 80 years ago. A creature that first appeared 4 million years ago, the thylacine became ...

The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, is an Aussie icon. It was the largest historical marsupial predator and a powerful example of human-caused extinction.

Colossal Biosciences—the Dallas-based company attempting to revive the woolly mammoth—has announced that it has started working on the de-extinction of the thylacine, better known as the Tasmanian ...

The apex predator has been extinct for nearly a century, but with genetic engineering, scientists believe they can bring it back—and help restore Australian ecosystems. By the 1920s, Yellowstone ...

Little is known about the thylacine, aka the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf. Humans killed them off of Tasmania so quickly that the animals went extinct before we could properly conserve them. But ...