Experts believe the striped marsupial went extinct in 1936, when the last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

Eighty-eight years ago today, the last of the Tasmanian tigers, also known as the Thylacine, died in the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. Now scientists are adding three of its oldest ancestors to its ...

What its species name means: Thylacinus cynocephalus means "dog-headed pouched dog." The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that once ...

The babies come from 26 Tasmanian devils that were re-introduced into Australia in 2020, with Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky helping release 11 of the animals Digital News Writer, PEOPLE Nature is ...

The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, was unique. It was the largest marsupial predator that survived into recent times. Sadly it was hunted to extinction in the wild, and the last known ...