Tasmanian tiger's die-off explained

Monday, January 12, 2009 - 19:42 in Biology & Nature

Until recently, little was known about the mysterious Tasmanian tiger, but new DNA sequences of the dog-like marsupial shed light on the striped creature's surprising family tree and its extinction 73 years ago.

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