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, ...
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Scientists just recovered RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger. The last one died out in 1936
Swedish scientists retrieved RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger to help trace the genes that were active in the animal’s tissues during life.
LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - Lufkin’s Ellen Trout Zoo has announced the addition of a new endangered Malayan tiger to its exhibits.
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 ...
There are an estimated 3,900 tigers left in the wild worldwide, down from 100,000 a century ago, with the majority in India. In Thailand, just 160 tigers are thought to remain. Poaching is the main ...
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 ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A new cat on the prowl at Zoo Knoxville is bringing hope for Malayan tigers, a critically endangered species. Jango, a 10-year-old tiger coming from a zoo in Missouri, arrived at ...
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Facing Extinction: Why Are Tigers Endangered?
Tigers once roamed from Turkey to China and as far north as Russia and south to Indonesia. Today, they inhabit around 6% of their ancient grounds and are on the brink of extinction. These beautiful ...
Mark Walter, the new owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, is backing one of the most ambitious science projects of the decade: bringing back an extinct bird from the dead. It's called the moa, a giant, ...
Malayan tigers are one of the most critically endangered of the tiger subspecies with only around 150 or fewer left in the wild. Poaching, habitat destruction and human-wildlife conflict have taken ...
COLUMBIA — There’s a new tiger in town. Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens has just welcomed a new resident: Suci, a Sumatran tiger. Though she’s only 2 years old, she’s already made history as one of the ...
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