The forests of Java, an island in Indonesia, were once heavily populated by the eponymous Java tiger, a subspecies of Sumatran tiger. But, as a result of hunting and habitat loss, the cats began to ...

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The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, roamed the Australian mainland, Tasmania and New Guinea for millions of years, up until the last one died in Tasmania in 1936.

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 ...

Various reported sightings may be the key to finding the thought-to-be-extinct Tasmanian tiger, formally known as Thylacinus cynocephalus or, the thylacine. According to CNN, an official document was ...

While there are no native lion or tiger populations in Japan today, this was not always the case. Fossils indicate that at ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

A camera trap in a tiger reserve captured footage of something never seen before: six Amur tigers in one frame. In footage from the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, an adult tigress ...

In 2010, the nations that make up the remaining range countries of the tiger set a target to double the number of wild tigers worldwide.