Thanks to an unwitting intervention by the Duke of Edinburgh 60 years ago, the world's rarest marsupial has come back from the very brink of extinction. Gilbert's potoroo — a nocturnal, fungi-loving ...

Melbourne scientists are working to bring the Tasmanian tiger back to life by re-creating the extinct species in the hope it can be re-introduced to the wild. The University of Melbourne is ...

The Tasmanian tiger, Thylacinus cynocephalus, was driven to extinction by European colonisers who hunted it, destroyed its habitat and introduced competing species. These practices still affect ...

Scientists in Australia and the US are hoping to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction using stem cells and gene editing technology. Those behind the bid suggest it could mean the creature, ...

The Kangaroo Island dunnart, a small mouse-sized marsupial found only on an Island off South Australia, is on the brink of extinction due to predation by feral cats. Researchers, including those from ...

The thylacine is an icon of extinction. But when the last one died in 1936, it marked the end of a diverse lineage that had existed for over 25 million years. Now, researchers have unearthed three new ...

Four endangered numbats, a type of marsupial, have been fitted with radio tracking collars ahead of their release into the wild, as part of a breeding program at Perth Zoo in Australia. Newly released ...

Scientists in Australia want to bring the Tasmanian tiger back to life by recreating the extinct species using gene editing. The team at the University of Melbourne hope a tiny marsupial could be the ...

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