The Tasmanian devil, a spaniel-size marsupial found on the Australian island of Tasmania, has been hurtling toward extinction in recent years, the victim of a bizarre and mysterious facial cancer that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. The Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii, is a small, very ...

CANBERRA, Australia -- Tasmania is trying to save the devil. The Tasmanian devil, a ferocious, snarling fox-size marsupial, is in danger of going extinct because of a contagious facial cancer. In the ...

Aussie Ark and other conservation groups collaborated to release 26 Tasmanian devils into a nature preserve north of Sydney. Their goal is to bring this species back to mainland Australia 3,000 years ...

Conservationists in Australia are celebrating the birth of seven Tasmanian devil joeys—the first to be born on the mainland in 3,000 years. As reported in The Land, the seven joeys were born at ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Pink, hairless, deaf and blind, the roughly month-old joeys were but the size of a shelled peanut. Yet they were a momentous discovery for the conservationists who had set off ...

When the sun sets in Tasmania, a creature with fur as dark as the night emerges from its den to begin its search for food, scavenging for carrion and hunting small mammals and birds. To many, it’s ...