Thylacine
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What five thylacine skulls can tell us about extinction
The Tasmanian tiger is extinct. The only specimens are in museums, but it’s amazing what five thylacine skulls can still tell us
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Piecing thylacine DNA back together
New research is using genomes from living thylacine relatives to build a new, chromosome-scale genome for the de-extinction of the Tasmanian tiger
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The 9 steps to de-extincting Australia’s thylacine
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?
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No bones about it, dunnarts crawl before growing a skeleton
New insights into the development of the dunnart – or marsupial mouse – provide a model animal to study other unique Australian fauna and could aid conservation efforts
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Tasmanian tigers start to look like dogs in the pouch
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
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The shared evolution of the Tasmanian tiger and the wolf
Through a molecular quirk, two distant mammalian cousins evolved to look more like twins finds new research
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Extinct Tasmanian tiger now back in 3D
Using 3D scanning, researchers are peeking under the preserved skin of Tasmanian tiger specimens to reconstruct its growth and development
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Miss Lambert’s Thylacine skull
Pioneering women zoologists and explorers played an instrumental role in natural history collections around the world
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Secrets from beyond extinction: The Tasmanian tiger
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