The Tasmanian giant crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas) is an enormous crustacean that lives off the coast of Tasmania, Australia. Commercially fished for its prized meat, it can weigh over 20 pounds (9 ...

What is a hermit crab? There are over 800 species of hermit crabs worldwide, and almost all are ocean dwellers—though people are likely most familiar with the dozen semi-terrestrial species ...

Tasmanian devils have been reintroduced into the wild in mainland Australia for the first time in 3,000 years. Conservation groups released 26 of the mammals into a large sanctuary in Barrington ...

Researchers in Australia and the US are embarking on a multi-million dollar project to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction. The last known one, officially called a thylacine ...

New fossil discoveries reveal three Thylacine species from 23 million years ago, highlighting rapid evolutionary diversification and expanding knowledge of ancient ecosystems. The last of the ...

The thylacine is often referred to as the Tasmanian tiger or the Tasmanian/marsupial wolf, despite tigers and wolves being felines and canines, respectively, while the thylacine is closely related ...

Researchers working with Colossal Biosciences have assembled a near-complete Tasmanian tiger genome and ... The newly assembled genome is similar in size to a human genome, consisting of 3 billion ...

Scientists say they have made a breakthrough in their quest to recreate the Tasmanian tiger, nearly a century after it became extinct. “It’s a big deal. The genome we have for it is even ...

about the size of a large dog, who once used to roam the forests of Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania. However, the last known Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart zoo in 1936, with the rest of the ...

The English zoo celebrated 10 years since they released thousands of giant fen raft spiders into ... the post by emphasizing the arachnid's large size, stating that spiders can "grow to be the ...

Fresh crabs should feel heavy for their size. You can buy a crab live and boil it yourself; alternatively, ask your fishmonger to kill it for you, or buy it ready-cooked. If buying cooked crabmeat ...

Giant spiders the size of a human hand have had a record breeding year in the UK following conservation efforts. A decade ago, Chester Zoo released thousands of fen raft Spiders after the species ...