The thylacine had trademark stripes and, rare in the animal world, abdominal pouches in both females and males. Australian researchers have called it "a dingo with a pouch" or "a dog with a pouch ...

This means that even a mouse-size marsupial could serve as a surrogate mother for a much larger adult animal like the thylacine, at least in the early stages. Reintroducing the thylacine to its ...

the Tasmanian tiger was once widespread throughout continental Australia and later confined to the island of Tasmania. The carnivorous animals preyed upon kangaroos and other marsupials ...

It’s fragile and breaks down quickly after an animal dies. But here it was, intact. It allowed scientists to piece together ...

the thylacine met its end in part because the government paid its citizens a bounty for every animal killed. That end came recently enough that we have photographs and film clips of the last ...

"There's no doubt the appearance of the animal in the images matches what you might expect of a Thylacine—the real question is around the authenticity of the images," Rehberg told Newsweek.

There are many reasons why plants and animals go extinct, but in the case of Australia's thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, it was down to simple human intervention. The animal ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully extracted and decoded RNA from an extinct animal. The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was a wolflike marsupial that went extinct ...

The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine or Tasmanian ... But disease and habitat destruction also probably contributed to the animal's extinction, according to the National Museum of ...

We have to start with a living cell, and then engineer our thylacine back into existence. So the way you do that is you find the closest living relative to your animal that has gone extinct ...

This means that even a mouse-size marsupial could serve as a surrogate mother for a much larger adult animal like the thylacine, at least in the early stages. Reintroducing the thylacine to its ...