The real-life 'Tiger Who Came to Tea' was found by the police during a raid on a wildlife trafficking group. After rounding up the suspects, Vietnam police then went to check on several animals ...

Thanks to a remarkably well-preserved thylacine skull, scientists managed to assemble the most complete Tasmanian tiger genome ... and layers of fat, to help the hybrid animals survive in the ...

But unlike other mythical creatures, the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger ... to your animal that has gone extinct, and for us that is a small marsupial species called the fat-tailed dunnart.

DANIEL: Pask then looked for the thylacine's closest living relative, a mouse-sized marsupial called a fat ... tiger de-extinction project two years ago, predicting they'd have an actual animal ...

First, the team will construct a detailed genome of the extinct animal and compare ... AP Photo/Rick Rycroft The fat-tailed dunnart is much smaller than an adult Tasmanian tiger, but Pask said ...

Scientists may be a few steps closer to resurrecting a long-extinct carnivorous marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger ...