Extinction

The Tasmanian tiger is extinct. The only specimens are in museums, but it’s amazing what five thylacine skulls can still tell us

By freezing the cells of living animals, researchers and museums are working together to safeguard Australia’s wildlife

New research into the embryo health of captive bred Southern Corroboree frogs may help their survival and guide conservation efforts

New research is using genomes from living thylacine relatives to build a new, chromosome-scale genome for the de-extinction of the Tasmanian tiger

The reality of bringing back the Tasmanian tiger from extinction using its genome is now a step closer, but how will science make it happen?

Our aquatic insects are at risk of extinction but in understanding why we may need to be looking beyond the quality of the water

Warming oceans and overfishing is causing species to evolve in ways that threaten the sustainability of commercial fisheries

Conserving wildlife with breeding programs doesn’t help threatened species to adapt, but synthetic biology may be able to bring protection by adapting genetics

Insect numbers are dwindling around the world and that has an ecological knock-on effect, but we could help by renaturing mini-beasts in our own urban backyards

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the eastern quoll, and it may lead to improved breeding programs in the bid to re-establish the animal on the Australian mainland