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, ...

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 ...

To avoid the preying wolves, the elk keep on the move, meaning they eat fewer of the young willow and aspen trees. With fewer elk eating young trees, that vegetation has since regenerated, creating ...

Researchers in Australia hope to see the extinct Tasmania tiger, or thylacine, roaming the wildness sometime in the next decade after partnering with a genetic engineering company in the U.S. that has ...

It’s one thing to see an extinct animal’s skeleton in a museum—a terrific way to learn about their lives based on scientific clues and their remains. But it’s not so common to have recorded footage of ...

If you haven't heard of the Tasmanian tiger, it's not because it's unworthy of discussion: it's famously not a feline but a dog-like marsupial, a predator that humans hunted to extinction. The last ...