Far too many animals from Earth’s second-most remote continent have gone extinct in the past 10,000 years. Here’s one such example. In the year 1930, a striking photograph was taken. To this day, it ...

They say lightning never strikes twice, but a UK auction house is preparing to sell a second rare thylacine head — and this ...

A rare extinct tiger head has been found under a bed weeks after the ‘only one in existence’ sold for a staggering £60,000.

The extinct thylacine had a skull unlike that of wolves, foxes or any other living mammalian predator, despite its famously dog-like appearance. Its oversized skull and long, slender jaws appear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The last known thylacine—a dog-like marsupial—died in captivity in 1936, but a ...

A dramatic new interpretation of thylacine anatomy has discovered that the extinct Tasmanian tiger killed prey more like a reptile than a mammal. Reading time 2 minutes Australia’s colonists, followed ...

Discover how Indigenous art from less than 1,000 years ago could reshape what we know about the Tasmanian tiger’s disappearance from mainland Australia. Recently identified rock art in northern ...

An item that was originally believed to be an antique taxidermy fox has sold at auction for £60,000 after being identified as the mounted head of an extinct animal. It was first bought for just £50 at ...

An 1862 illustration of the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger. The extinct marsupial had dog-like features, along with tiger-like stripes and an abdominal pouch. "The thylacine brain is very different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tasmanian tiger's unusual skull suggests it snapped at smaller prey rather than overpowering livestock like a wolf. (CREDIT: ...

Australia’s colonists, followed by citizens of the newly autonomous Commonwealth, hunted the nation’s iconic Tasmanian tiger, Thylacinus cynocephalus, to extinction 90 years ago—seemingly because of a ...