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 ...

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 ...

An effort to save the Tasmanian devil population has resulted in another species being wiped out. About a decade ago, 3,000 little penguins called Maria Island, an island east of Tasmania, their home.

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 ...

Once upon a time I was fortunate enough to see one of the most incredible animals left on earth: a wild Tasmanian devil. I was in the company of 80 wildlife biologists from mainland Australia, most of ...