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Thanks to a remarkably well-preserved thylacine skull, scientists managed to assemble the most complete Tasmanian tiger genome to date. At the same time, scientists have also been able to isolate ...

Thylacines — marsupials known as Tasmanian tigers — were declared extinct decades ago, but efforts to find one in the wild are thriving. Scientists are also working to bring back the species.

Tasmanian tigers are a group of extinct marsupials called Thylacines that roamed New Guinea, ... where numerous fossils of turtles, fish, snails, crocodiles, lizards, pythons, ...

THERE appears to be only one published record of a chelonian in Tasmania 1, that of a leathery turtle, Dermochelys coriacea (Linné, 1766), which came ashore at Fortescue Bay in March 1889 ...

A sea turtle was an unexpected visitor to the Hobart Waterfront on Thursday evening, much to the delight of onlookers.

A company says it is pulling together DNA to try to re-create the Tasmanian tiger, which went extinct. But some people question whether it makes sense to restore creatures to a different world.