Dingoes get a bad rap. A free-ranging dog found in chiefly in Australia, dingoes have been blamed for killing sheep and hunting the Tasmanian tigers and devils to death. Oh, and snatching the ...
UNDATED (WKRC) - The last Tasmanian tiger died in captivity in 1936. Nearly 100 years later, scientists believe they are on the edge of reviving the species. The Tasmanian tiger is a bit of a misnomer ...
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 ...
The now-extinct Tasmanian tiger was hunted out of existence in the early 1900s for killing Australian farmers' sheep. But a new study finds that the tiger was framed. In fact, the animals' jaws were ...
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.
On the southern tip of the island of Tasmania in 1936, a wolf-like marsupial was living in the Beaumaris Zoo. It was the last of its kind, and on Sept. 7, 1936, the animal died from suspected neglect, ...
POLITICIANS are usually seen kissing babies during election campaigns, but Environment Minister Greg Hunt has been up close and personal with a devil. The Coalition frontbencher chose to pat a docile ...
In Tasmania, a marsupial mystery has finally been solved. People have long puzzled over the whereabouts of the last known specimen of a thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger. Turns out they’ve been safely ...
Scientists from UNSW Sydney have discovered three new species of Thylacines in fossils unearthed from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in Waanyi country of north-western Queensland, Australia. In ...