It's been nearly 40 years since the extinction of Australia's thylacine, known as the Tasmanian tiger, but reported sightings come by the thousands as people across Tasmania tramp through the dense ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 14, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. There's the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. And in the Himalayas, there's the yeti, the ...

Genetic sequences from a museum specimen offer fresh clues about the physiology of thylacines, which went extinct in the 1930s. For the first time, researchers have sequenced RNA from an extinct ...

Tasmanian devils are the largest carnivorous marsupials. They typically weigh 9 to 26 pounds and measure 20 to 31 inches in body length, excluding their bushy tail. Tasmanian devils are robust, ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – They’re endangered in the wild and rare to see even in zoos, but Fort Wayne Zoo is home to two Tasmanian devils. Last June, eight Tasmanian devils came from the Australian ...

Declining numbers of the endangered Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) are affecting the evolutionary genetics of a small predator, the spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus), according to a ...

Two Tasmanian devils have arrived at the San Diego Zoo from New South Wales, Australia, according to a release from the San Diego Zoo. The zoo shared that the two three-year-old brothers, named ...

Two Tasmanian devil brothers have taken up residence at the San Diego Zoo, newly sent from Australia to serve as ambassadors to highlight the plight of the endangered species. Flotsam and Jetsam, two ...