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 ...
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.
Scientists who are trying to re-create the extinct thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, have gained much ground with a long-lost specimen discovered in a Melbourne museum. A preserved thylacine head stored ...
In a quiet corner of a Melbourne museum, researchers stumbled upon an unexpected biological treasure. It may hold the key to ...
Far too many animals from Earth’s second-most remote continent have gone extinct in the past 10,000 years. Here’s one such example. In the year 1930, a striking photograph was taken. To this day, it ...
A Dallas-based biotech company has nearly completed its reconstruction of the Tasmanian tiger just two years into its de-extinction project. The last known thylacine, commonly referred to as the ...
Swedish scientists retrieved RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger to help trace the genes that were active in the animal’s tissues during life.
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Swedish scientists have successfully extracted RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger, potentially revolutionizing genetic studies by revealing active genes and ancient viral history.
Colossal Biosciences, which intends to create proxy species of the woolly mammoth, dodo, and Tasmanian tiger, claims it has made genome editing breakthroughs that bring it closer to the lost marsupial ...