News tagged with tasmanian tiger

Hair of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes of Extinct Species

All the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published on 13 January 2009 in the online edition ...

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created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Tasmanian tiger suffered low genomic diversity

The enigmatic Tasmanian tiger, known also as the thylacine, was hunted to extinction in the wild at the turn of the 20th century, and the last one died in a Tasmanian zoo in 1936.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Two rhino species bite the dust: Red List

Several species of rhino have been poached into extinction or to the point of no return, according to an update of the Red List of Threatened Species, the gold standard for animal and plant conservation.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Tasmanian tiger's jaw was too small to attack sheep, study shows

Australia's iconic thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was hunted to death in the early Twentieth century for allegedly killing sheep; however, a new study published in the Zoological Society of London's Journal of ...

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created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2