dasyuromorphs
-
Scientists Recover RNA From an Extinct Species for the First Time
The last known thylacine—the largest marsupial carnivore in recent times—died in Tasmania’s Beaumaris Zoo in 1936. But the animal has recently been the target of de-extinction efforts, and now, a team of researchers has managed to recover RNA from the creature—the first time such a feat has been accomplished for any extinct species. The researchers…
-
Colourised Footage of Tasmanian Tiger Brings an Extinct Species Back to Life
A stunning restoration of 88-year-old archival footage provides a colourised view of the last Tasmanian tiger in captivity.
-
Tasmanian Tigers Could Still Have Been Alive in the 2000s, Scientists Argue
Of all the animals to have gone extinct since humans were around to notice, perhaps none loom as large in our collective consciousness as the thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger. Unlike the dodo or the woolly mammoth, the thylacine is still lit, however dimly, in living memory. In fact, since the last known…