Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) might be small creatures, but their appetite and effect on their environment are ...

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.

Swedish scientists retrieved RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger to help trace the genes that were active in the animal’s ...

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 ...

Anna C. Lewis receives funding from The Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust and The Carnivore Conservancy. Tracey Rogers receives funding from Australian Research Council and The Winifred Violet ...

Tasmanian whisky has a problem. It’s not the taste, mind you; the whiskies flowing from the Apple Isle rank among the world’s ...

Researchers at a US zoo have discovered Tasmanian devils glow under ultraviolet light, weeks after the same phenomenon was discovered to occur in platypuses, bilbies and wombats. US researchers have ...

In Tasmania’s remote southwest, dry lightning storms are starting huge conflagrations across treeless plains. Could a return ...

A contagious cancer wiped out about 90% of the marsupials in recent years. The Tasmanian devil, the feisty marsupial that only resided on the island of Tasmania for the last 3,000 years, has been ...

Tasmanian women who were forced to give up their babies will be offered $75,000 under a redress support package hailed as ...