The global battle against deadly superbugs may be getting some help from an unlikely source: milk from Tasmanian devils. Australian researchers have found that the marsupial’s milk contains ...

The Tasmanian devil is too important to lose – and this would seem careless following the extinction of the thylacine, the world’s largest marsupial predator, in the 1930s.

Even though they’re cute, Tasmanian devils really do exhibit somewhat diabolical behavior.Turns out, these kitty-sized marsupials might just be fierce enough to stare down one of the nastiest ...

FLICKR, CHEN WU Comparing antibodies found in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) with and without a devastating and contagious facial cancer, researchers found that the marsupials may have a ...

Over the past 16 years, 85% of wild Tasmanian devils have been wiped out. Unlike many species being driven to extinction, the primary culprit is not poaching, or habitat destruction. Rather, says ...

An international team of researchers has learned that two specific sections of the Tasmanian Devil genome are changing rapidly in response to the spread of devil facial tumor disease.

Given a ferociously funny second life as a cartoon character, one of Australia's most iconic animals the Tasmanian Devil could vanish in the next quarter of a century according to new research which ...

Scientists successfully treat Tasmanian devils suffering from the deadly devil facial tumour disease by "fighting cancer with cancer", as they aim for a vaccine which can be administered to devils ...

More information: Demonstration of immune responses against devil facial tumour disease in wild Tasmanian devils, Biology Letters, Published 18 October 2016.DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0553 rsbl ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) --New research out of Australia points to an unlikely source of help in the battle against antiobiotic-resistant superbugs -- Tasmanian devils. The milk of the marsupials, which ...

FOR THE PAST 20 years, an infectious cancer has been killing wild Tasmanian devils, creating a massive challenge for conservationists. But new research, published today in Nature Communications, ...