Tasmanian tiger

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

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?

The Tasmanian tiger and wolf evolved similar genetic blueprints and lifestyle strategies, generating similar skull shapes even at the puppy stage, finds a new study

Through a molecular quirk, two distant mammalian cousins evolved to look more like twins finds new research

Using 3D scanning, researchers are peeking under the preserved skin of Tasmanian tiger specimens to reconstruct its growth and development

The entire thylacine genome has now been sequenced, revealing the apex marsupial predator was in poor genetic health and may have struggled to fight disease had it survived