Given the freshness of its extinction (and perhaps a healthy dose of guilt), the thylacine is on the shortlist of species set for “de-extinction”
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The findings, published in the journal Nature, suggest this extinct species had a body mass of up to 340 tonnes
Who is Fernanda, the last known fantastic giant tortoise?
Measuring in at more than 11 by 7 inches, the egg is the largest soft-shell egg ever discovered and the second-largest egg of any known animal
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia releases the 21-second clip, from 1935, of Benjamin, the thylacine
Rescue teams have been met by the charred bodies of thousands of koalas
Iman, aged 25, died six months after the country's last remaining male rhino
The small deer with fangs hasn't been seen since 1990
The last wild Tasmanian tiger was thought to have been hunted to extinction
What was thought to be the last one of its kind died in Hobart Zoo in 1936