Declared extinct decades ago, the Tasmanian tiger - or thylacine - still sparks rumors, sightings, and debates. In this video ...

Geneticists have for the first time isolated and decoded RNA molecules from a creature that died out long ago. The genetic material — which came from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine ...

The last known thylacine died in 1936 but the species was not declared officially extinct since 1986. Artist's illustration of the extinct thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger.

Scientists have successfully extracted RNA from an extinct species for the first time. This was achieved in the thylacine, a species of carnivorous marsupial that roamed Australia until a century ...

Thylacine pelts that Morton Allport, a now-disgraced Tasmanian naturalist, sent to the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, between 1869 and 1871. Image 4 of 5. A taxidermied thylacine.

The thylacine’s skull shape closely resembles that of the red fox and gray wolf, despite the fact that these species have not shared a common ancestor since the Jurassic period.

An animal like the thylacine that died out almost a hundred years ago simply couldn't be brought back this way. But it could be an option for recently extinct species.

The last known thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus, or Tasmanian tiger) died in Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo in 1936. Now, a genetic engineering company that last year announced plans to put thousands ...

Yesterday, a company called Colossal, which has already said it wants to bring back the mammoth, announced a partnership with an Australian lab that it says will de-extinct the thylacine with the ...

The thylacine—also called the Tasmanian tiger or the marsupial wolf—was a carnivorous marsupial endemic to Tasmania and, in the more ancient past, Australia.