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 once ...

Tasmanian tigers, otherwise known as thylacines, have been extinct since 1936. The species — which looks like a strange mix ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists may be a few steps closer to resurrecting a long-extinct carnivorous marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger. Colossal ...

The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, looked like a dog—but it was actually a marsupial more closely related to kangaroos, having diverged from placental mammals 120–150 million years ago. It could open ...

It's been decades since Australia's thylacine, known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct and scientists say they've made a breakthrough as they research ways to bring back the carnivore.

A newly discovered ancestor of the recently extinct carnivores was described today, marking the 88th anniversary of the death of the last thylacine. Reading time 2 minutes Eighty-eight years ago today ...

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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 ...

It's been decades since Australia's thylacine, known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct and scientists say they've made a breakthrough as they research ways to bring back the carnivore.

Tasmanian tigers had skulls too weak to hunt much more than possums, according to new research. Tasmanian tigers (thylacines) were innocent of the crime that led many hunters to send them to ...