Even after nine decades, Peggie Bassett can still remember the guttural growl and striking scent of the last known thylacine ...

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 ...

Tasmanian devils make an eerie, unforgettable sound. Hearing the likes of such growling and screeching in a Tasmanian jungle would be disquieting while you are trying to sleep in your tent.

Tasmanian devils have been released into the wild on Australia's mainland 3,000 years after the feisty marsupials went extinct there, in what conservationists described Monday as a "historic" step.

Tasmanian devils have been released into the wild on Australia's mainland 3,000 years after the feisty marsupials went extinct there, in what conservationists described Monday as a "historic" step.

Hope dims for the endangered Tasmanian devil, as Cedric, the "immune" tassie devil, contracts the fatal cancer that threatens the survival of his species.