What its species name means: Thylacinus cynocephalus means "dog-headed pouched dog." The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that once ...

video: The thylacine, that famous extinct Australian icon colloquially known as the Tasmanian Tiger, is revealed to have been only about half as big as once thought - not a "big" bad wolf after all.

An extensive analysis of dozens of Tasmanian tiger specimens suggests the extinct marsupial was far smaller, and far less formidable as a hunter, than conventionally assumed. Thylacines, otherwise ...

Tasmanian tigers, otherwise known as thylacines, were about half the size scientists once estimated them to be. This development has suggested that the now-extinct marsupials were about the size of ...

The grainy footage was filmed in the Tasmanian wilderness in November last year by Adrian Richardson, Greg Booth and his father George Booth, who kept the location secret to prevent others from ...

There's the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. And in the Himalayas, there's the yeti, the Abominable Snowman. In Tasmania—a teardrop of an island under the eye of the Australian mainland—there's the ...