The extinct thylacine had a skull unlike that of wolves, foxes or any other living mammalian predator, despite its famously dog-like appearance. Its oversized skull and long, slender jaws appear ...

The last known thylacine died at a Hobart zoo on Sept.

A second taxidermy thylacine head believed to have been shot in Tasmania more than a century ago is expected to fetch up to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The extinction of the thylacine stings a little more acutely than the loss of other species. Unlike other extinction icons like ...

Discover how Indigenous art from less than 1,000 years ago could reshape what we know about the Tasmanian tiger’s disappearance from mainland Australia. Recently identified rock art in northern ...

An item that was originally believed to be an antique taxidermy fox has sold at auction for £60,000 after being identified as the mounted head of an extinct animal. It was first bought for just £50 at ...

Waters passed the images onto Nick Mooney, the Honorary Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery ...

The Tasmanian tiger hunted more like a fox than its fearsome namesake, according to a new UniSC biomechanics study of predatory animals across the globe. The University of the Sunshine Coast-led ...

A dramatic new interpretation of thylacine anatomy has discovered that the extinct Tasmanian tiger killed prey more like a reptile than a mammal. Reading time 2 minutes Australia’s colonists, followed ...

For 85 years, the last known footage of the now-extinct Tasmanian tiger sat forgotten in the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), until it was recently unearthed by researchers from a ...

A new Australian study has shed light on how the thylacine subdued its prey and what kinds of animals it likely ate, further undermining a key reason that led to its extinction. The study from ...