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

POWELL, Ohio (WCMH)– The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium announced the death of one of their Tasmanian devils Tuesday. The zoo said in a social media post they made the difficult decision to humanely ...

CANBERRA, Australia— Tasmania is trying to save the devil. The Tasmanian devil, a ferocious, snarling fox-sized marsupial, is in danger of going extinct because of a contagious facial cancer. In the ...

“We can deduce then that devils with higher natural antibody ratio are therefore less susceptible to the contagious cancer,” Beata Ujvari of Australia’s Deakin University said in a statement.

Researchers analysed tumour cells taken from facial cancers in the animals, the world's largest marsupial carnivores, and found the disease probably starts in Schwann cells - a type of tissue that ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Columbus Zoo welcomed two new Tasmanian devils, a continuation of its conservation efforts to help the endangered species. Tori and Layna arrived Friday from the Toledo Zoo ...