Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) might be small creatures, but their appetite and effect on their environment are ...

Swedish scientists retrieved RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger to help trace the genes that were active in the animal’s ...

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 ...

A Tasmanian tiger at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. The last known living Tasmanian tiger died at the zoo in 1936. Dave WATTS / JACANA / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Scientists have extracted RNA from a ...

Anna C. Lewis receives funding from The Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust and The Carnivore Conservancy. Tracey Rogers receives funding from Australian Research Council and The Winifred Violet ...

An Australian zoologist is leading a national project to help save the endangered Tasmanian devil from extinction, a situation that could arise within the next 20 years, experts predict. Jeremy Austin ...

Researchers at a US zoo have discovered Tasmanian devils glow under ultraviolet light, weeks after the same phenomenon was discovered to occur in platypuses, bilbies and wombats. US researchers have ...

Tasmanian whisky has a problem. It’s not the taste, mind you; the whiskies flowing from the Apple Isle rank among the world’s ...

Tasmanian women who were forced to give up their babies will be offered $75,000 under a redress support package hailed as ...

In Tasmania’s remote southwest, dry lightning storms are starting huge conflagrations across treeless plains. Could a return ...