My name is Benjamin and I was the last known Tasmanian tiger. My species lived on this planet four million years ago, so how did I end up being the last one, shut inside four walls to die in a zoo and ...

There was a lot of hype about an American company's announcement about ancient dire wolves. It raises questions about the bid ...

A thylacine or 'Tasmanian wolf', or 'Tasmanian tiger' in captivity, circa 1930. These animals are thought to be extinct, since the last known wild thylacine was shot in 1930 and the last captive ...

Meanwhile, the thylacine, or "Tasmanian tiger," went extinct in 1936 when the last captive one died. The last wild thylacine was shot in 1930. Despite the name, the thylacine is not a tiger.

It went extinct as recently as the 1930s, with the last living Tasmanian tiger residing in a Tasmanian zoo and perishing in 1936. Colossal was able to reconstruct the Tasmanian tiger’s genome to ...