Tasmanian Devils are dying from an unusual communicable cancer, which is apparently spread when animals bite one another. Researchers are exploring ways to save them — including moving healthy animals ...

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 ...

On the other side of the world, even wild animals are getting into the holiday spirit. Marley and Moose, two Tasmanian devil babies at the Australian Reptile Park, had fun in a specially-built winter ...

Tasmanian devils are named for their chilling nocturnal shrieks, which reminded early colonists of hellhounds. Perhaps more than any other sound, the screams give a lone bush walker “this feeling of ...

For those of us who grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons, Warner Bros.' character Taz, the omnivorous, whirling, swirling cartoon caricature of a Tasmanian devil, was a delight. Already long on ...

BARRINGTON TOPS: The largest group so far of disease-free Tasmanian devils has been released in the wild, as part of plans to save the carnivorous marsupials from a cancer threatening them with ...

(CNN) -- Eleven Tasmanian devils have been reintroduced to mainland Australia, more than 3,000 years after they died out there. The carnivorous marsupials have been released into a 400-hectare ...

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 ...