A strange, contagious cancer is threatening Tasmanian devils, but researchers’ fight is fueling breakthroughs in science, ...

Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) might be small creatures, but their appetite and effect on their environment are mighty. These marsupials, which typically live only on the island of Tasmania, ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – They’re endangered in the wild and rare to see even in zoos, but Fort Wayne Zoo is home to two Tasmanian devils. Last June, eight Tasmanian devils came from the Australian ...

Evolution of two contagious cancers affecting Tasmanian devils underlines unpredictability of disease threat. Scientists have traced the family trees of two transmissible cancers that affect Tasmanian ...

The Los Angeles Zoo recently welcomed two new Tasmanian devils to its collection, Danny Zuko and Crush. Both males were bred by Aussie Ark, a New South Wales conservation organization on a mission to ...

Transmissible cancers, which occur only rarely in the animal kingdom, are spread by the transfer of living cancer cells. In the case of Tasmanian devils, the cells are transferred through biting – a ...