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 ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully extracted and decoded RNA from an extinct animal. The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was a wolflike marsupial that went extinct after ...

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, ...

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, also known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, roamed the Australian mainland, Tasmania and New Guinea for millions of years, up until the last one died in Tasmania in 1936.

The last known thylacine—the largest marsupial carnivore in recent times—died in Tasmania’s Beaumaris Zoo in 1936. But the animal has recently been the target of de-extinction efforts, and now, a team ...

A biotechnology company is taking steps to bring an extinct apex predator back to life. Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology company, announced the formation of the Tasmania Thylacine ...

Forgotten for more than a century, a foul discovery in a cupboard at Museums Victoria in Melbourne could be the key to “bringing back” an extinct Australian marsupial, according to researchers from ...

Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the earth, the thylacine is possibly the most tragic loss. A wolf-sized marsupial sometimes called the Tasmanian tiger, the thylacine met its ...