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 ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Tasmanian devils, the carnivorous marsupials whose feisty, frenzied eating habits won the animals cartoon fame, have returned to mainland Australia for the first time in some ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

The presence of an endangered and "cryptic" parrot species at a northern Tasmanian national park is hailed as "very good news" by a bird expert.

Humans — not climate change — were responsible for the mass extinction of Australia’s megafauna, according to a new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Wildlife authorities in Tasmania have decided to euthanise the surviving false killer whales that stranded on a remote beach on the state’s northwest coast after rough ocean conditions made it ...