Their coats were very thick and had a yellowish-brown color. 3. The Tasmanian Tiger Would Hunt Small Prey Tasmanian tigers were known not only for their striking abilities but also for their large ...

Scientists have successfully mapped the genome of the Tasmanian tiger, an extinct marsupial native to Australia that was last ...

The thylacine was sandy yellowish-brown to grey in color and featured several distinctive dark stripes along its back—the inspiration for the Tasmanian tiger moniker. Its large head was almost ...

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 ...

But unlike other mythical creatures, the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, actually—indisputably— existed, an apex predator the size of a small wolf, roamed the island as recently as last century.

It's been nearly 40 years since the extinction of Australia's thylacine, known as the Tasmanian tiger, but reported sightings come by the thousands as people across Tasmania tramp through the ...

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.

Scientists were recently able to recover and sequence RNA from a roughly 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, also known as a thylacine, preserved at a museum in Stockholm. The feat marks the first time ...

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 ...

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 ...