Originally thought to be a fox, it was later identified as a rare animal that died out in the 1930s.

After seeing off a rival at auction, a British collector says he is now in possession of a "holy grail" — a mounted thylacine head. But the item almost went unnoticed, listed as a 'fox head'.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tasmanian tigers were hunted to extinction decades ago, but a recent scientific breakthrough has raised hope that the animal and ...

U.S. biotech company Colossal Bioscience and the University of Melbourne are collaborating to revive a number of species lost to history Lead scientist Professor Andrew Pask revealed they've now ...

This week in 1936, The Thylacine, more commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger, went extinct. The Thylacine was native to Mainland Australia and like many other Australian mammals, was a Marsupial, ...

#3 Thylacine - Extinct 1936 The thylacine, a meat-eating pouched mammal, was once found on the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. Also known as the Tasmanian tiger or ...