It's been decades since Australia's thylacine, known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct and scientists say they've made a breakthrough as they research ways to bring back the carnivore.

Scientists across the globe are working to bring extinct species back to life. But do the facts measure up, or is this still ...

Tasmanian tigers, otherwise known as thylacines, have been extinct since 1936. The species — which looks like a strange mix of a dog, zebra, and a kangaroo — was hunted to extinction, largely because ...

Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind ...

Scientists have used DNA and RNA from a preserved thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) head to reconstruct nearly the entire genome of the extinct species. While this advances efforts to potentially revive ...

For decades, the Tasmanian tiger was portrayed as Australia's most feared livestock predator. Farmers blamed it for dead sheep, newspapers described it as a menace to agriculture, and the Tasmanian ...

Colossal Biosciences made a record-breaking 20 edits across 14 genes in gray wolf cells by adding extinct dire wolf DNA. This was the first time ancient DNA has been used to bioengineer an extinct ...