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This week in 1936, The Thylacine, more commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger, went extinct. The Thylacine was native to Mainland Australia and like many other Australian mammals, was a Marsupial, ...
Learn why fossil specimens once branded as marine reptiles are now being recognized as coelacanths that lived in shallow seas ...
Mystery creature in South African rock art could be long-extinct species, study finds - Tusked animal depicted in rock art ...
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...
Hundreds of species have gone extinct in recent centuries, but losses are few among larger classification levels, meaning we ...
A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly to islands and slowing. But others argue this is all just semantics.