From inside the hessian sack comes a low growl. Wildlife biologist Nick Mooney reaches in and carefully pulls out a Tasmanian devil, the largest carnivorous marsupial, a halo of stiff whiskers framing ...
Dingoes get a bad rap. A free-ranging dog found in chiefly in Australia, dingoes have been blamed for killing sheep and hunting the Tasmanian tigers and devils to death. Oh, and snatching the ...
If you want proof that size isn’t everything, look no further than the Tasmanian devil. This scrappy, sharp-toothed marsupial might weigh less than your average house cat, but pound for pound, its ...
A University of Idaho study of Tasmanian devils concludes the loss of predators and scavengers from an ecosystem can impair plant and soil health, while potentially elevating greenhouse gas emissions.
A contagious cancer wiped out about 90% of the marsupials in recent years. The Tasmanian devil, the feisty marsupial that only resided on the island of Tasmania for the last 3,000 years, has been ...
The creature in the video bears little resemblance to a healthy Tasmanian devil; largely furless, standing in broad daylight when the species is usually nocturnal, and with a bulbous growth on its ...