An international group of researchers led by the University of Tasmania has taken a fresh look into the disappearance, and ...

Natives of Australia, the thylacines, are well known to have gone extinct in the 1930s. As far as we know, the last thylacine ...

Parasites that once feasted on the extinct Tasmanian tiger, otherwise known as the Thylacine, surprisingly still exist today. One of these parasites, a species of flea, has managed to survive even ...

Menna Elizabeth Jones wrote the introduction to the book discussed in the article, Thylacine: The History, Ecology and Loss of the Tasmanian Tiger. Human life on Earth is utterly dependent on ...

Nobody writes an obituary for the last of a species dying alone in the wild. So, knowing precisely when to confirm an ...

The Tasmanian devil, for example, frequently feeds on roadkill left by humans. But our new research suggests this apparent benefit can come at a cost. We compared the diets of Tasmanian devil ...

The Tasmanian devil, for example, frequently feeds on roadkill left by humans. But our new research published in Scientific Reports suggests this apparent benefit can come at a cost. We compared ...

The rules around the granting of permits to kill wombats have been tightened, but the Wombat Warrior group is warning of another Tasmanian tiger-style extinction debacle under the government's watch.

Possums on Maria Island expanded beyond usual habitat and had become ‘pretty significant predator’ The introduction of Tasmanian devils to Maria Island halved the population of brushtail ...