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 ...

In the 1930s, the Tasmanian tiger went the way of the woolly mammoth and the dodo bird and was declared extinct. Now the remains of the last of its species have been discovered. Officially known as ...

De-extinction scientists are hoping to bring back a long lost "tiger" back to life, almost 100 years after the last of its kind died. Researchers are planning to use stem cells to create an embryo of ...

A Tasmanian tiger at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. The last known living Tasmanian tiger died at the zoo in 1936. Dave WATTS / JACANA / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Scientists have extracted RNA from a ...

Thanks to a remarkably well-preserved thylacine skull, scientists managed to assemble the most complete Tasmanian tiger genome to date. At the same time, scientists have also been able to isolate long ...