Scientists have classified Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii ... This led to aggressive hunting, and they were almost ...

Tasmanian tigers are now extinct. However, they once lived throughout Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania. Despite being called the Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) by researchers, many people ...

Tasmanian devils are named for their chilling nocturnal ... which are typically blamed on factors such as hunting and habitat loss. Kristofer Helgen, a zoologist at the Smithsonian’s National ...

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 ...

The Tasmanian devil made headlines in 1996 when animals ... introduced disease or hunting. In a paper published today in the journal Biology Letters, we used a large genetic data-set from more ...

She hypothesised that four historical events could have been responsible: the spread of the facial tumour disease, bounty hunting of devils and Tasmanian tigers during early European settlement ...

One of Australia’s most fabled species, the Tasmanian tiger ... relatives – the Tasmanian devil and spotted-tailed quoll. These are both capable of hunting large prey relative to their ...

Instead, their closest living relatives are other meat-eating marsupials, like Tasmanian devils and quolls ... colonized the island and started hunting them. Their numbers declined over several ...

“We always assumed that the thylacine, like the Tasmanian devil, had got really restricted ... sometime before 65,000 years ago. Human hunting ultimately wiped out the thylacine, though, which ...