The forests of Java, an island in Indonesia, were once heavily populated by the eponymous Java tiger, a subspecies of Sumatran tiger. But, as a result of hunting and habitat loss, the cats began to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Felines comprise all cat species, from domestic cats to big ...

Various reported sightings may be the key to finding the thought-to-be-extinct Tasmanian tiger, formally known as Thylacinus cynocephalus or, the thylacine. According to CNN, an official document was ...

U.S. biotech company Colossal Bioscience and the University of Melbourne are collaborating to revive a number of species lost to history Lead scientist Professor Andrew Pask revealed they've now ...

Poaching and destruction of habitat have decimated wild tiger populations around the world, especially in Cambodia. There are no longer any breeding tigers left in the wild in that country, and the ...

Far too many animals from Earth’s second-most remote continent have gone extinct in the past 10,000 years. Here’s one such example. In the year 1930, a striking photograph was taken. To this day, it ...

In 2010, the nations that make up the remaining range countries of the tiger set a target to double the number of wild tigers worldwide.