According to the team on this new study, these newly described species are the oldest members of the Thylacines family that scientists have found. [Related: A genetics startup wants to bring the ...

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 ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the earth, the thylacine is possibly the most tragic loss. A wolf-sized marsupial sometimes called the Tasmanian tiger, the thylacine met its ...

DALLAS & MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Colossal, the de-extinction and species preservation company, announces numerous breakthrough successes in all stages of the thylacine ...

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Colossal CEO Ben Lamm inside the company’s biobank, which is helping safeguard rare animals from the same fate as the ...

(CNN) — Geneticists have for the first time isolated and decoded RNA molecules from a creature that died out long ago. (CNN) — Geneticists have for the first time isolated and decoded RNA molecules ...

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