It may sound like a plot right out of a Jurassic Park movie, but the implications of the study are no mere fiction: Scientists are now one step closer to reviving not only the Tasmanian tiger, but ...

The Tasmanian tiger resembled a wolf, aside from the tiger-like stripes on its back. The arrival of people in Australia roughly 50,000 years ago ushered in massive population losses.

The scientists say they hope a Tasmanian tiger could be born in 2010. If the animal can be successfully cloned, it may pave the way for a viable population and the return of other extinct species.

An antique illustration of the now-extinct Tasmanian tiger (also known as thylacine), digitally restored. Scientists are now attempting to de-extinct the thylacine.

The Tasmanian Tiger, also known as the Thylacine, is one of the most famous creatures that many believe to be extinct. Once native to Tasmania, Australia, and New Guinea, the thylacine was ...

Grainy images show Tasmanian tiger didn’t go extinct 80 years ago, group claims. ‘It isn’t a bloody kangaroo’ Experts have been more skeptical, saying the videos are far from conclusive.

Scientists in Australia have mapped the genetic sequence of the extinct Tasmanian tiger, raising hopes of reviving the species, the last surviving example of which died in a zoo in the city of ...

Somebody had found a Tasmanian tiger. The reason that this news was such a potentially monumental, breakfast-stopping event is that the Tasmanian tiger has been extinct since 1936. If you’ve never ...

Declared extinct decades ago, the Tasmanian tiger - or thylacine - still sparks rumors, sightings, and debates. In this video, we explore the evidence: mysterious footage, eyewitness accounts, and ...

The last known Tasmanian tiger, which took its name from the Australian island and the stripes on its back, died in captivity in the Hobart Zoo in 1936, having been hunted to extinction in the ...

Researchers said on Tuesday they have recovered RNA from the desiccated skin and muscle of a Tasmanian tiger stored since 1891 at a museum in Stockholm.