To do that, they plan to put DNA from the last thylacines into the eggs of a fat-tailed dunnart, a small marsupial that looks ...

Thylacines were the largest marsupial carnivores of recent times. In 1830, British settlers in Tasmania established the first bounties encouraging violence against both Tasmania’s first peoples ...

After the population of thylacines was decimated through a bounty scheme, ineffective political action by scientists finally resulted in the extinction of a once proud species. Paddle also uncovers a ...

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Colonisers established bounties encouraging violence against both Tasmania's first peoples and thylacines (above) In 1830, colonisers established bounties ...