The thylacine earned its nickname of Tasmanian tiger for the stripes along its back ... and again when dingoes - a species of wild dog - appeared. Eventually, the marsupial only roamed free ...

Tasmanian tigers had pouches like kangaroos where they carried their young, but the species was closer in resemblance to dogs. The scientists found that thylacine skulls bore similarities to the ...

The preservation of a century-old Tasmanian tiger head allowed scientists to reconstruct ... related to kangaroos and koalas ...

Scientists have taken another step towards the resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger with the first successful recovery of RNA from an extinct species. RNA is the genetic material present in all ...