The thylacine earned its nickname of Tasmanian tiger for the stripes along its back - but it was actually a marsupial, the type of Australian mammal that raises its young in a pouch. The group of ...

Pask had already sequenced the Tasmanian tiger’s genome with the help of DNA extracted from a 108-year old pouch young specimen that had been preserved at the Victoria Museum in Australia.

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 ... as well as a dog-like head with ...