A Tasmanian Devil named Conrad inside its enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, California on January 13, 2015. Tasmanian Devils are native to Australia and are a carnivorous marsupial.

HOBART, Australia – The Tasmanian devil was listed as an endangered animal in its home state Wednesday because of a deadly, contagious cancer that has cut its population by up to 60 per cent.

Photo by Aussie Ark/Handout The world’s largest surviving marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian Devil, has been returned to the wild on Australia’s mainland for the first time in 3,000 years.

Genome mapping of Tasmanian devils found that, at the genetic level, the tumours evolve very slowly, making it easier to study -- and, possibly, circumvent them. This may also offer an unusual ...

The world's largest surviving marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian devil, has been returned to the wild on Australia's mainland for the first time in 3,000 years.

The fatal disease has decimated devil populations in the state, triggering the Tasmanian government to list the species as endangered in 2008, closely followed by the federal government in 2009.

The “Tasmanian Devil” not only evolved faster than a supernova, but 14 individual flares were observed, lighting up over a stretch of several months, or about a hundred days.

Intergenomic signatures of coevolution between Tasmanian devils and an infectious cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024; 121 (12) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2307780121 ...

A diseased Tasmanian devil has been filmed on a farm in the state's north-west. The state's environment department says the devil has "emaciation and fur loss associated with severe disease" and ...