HOBART, Australia (AP) — About 230 whales have been stranded on Tasmania’s west coast, just days after 14 sperm whales were found beached on an island off the southeastern coast. This photo provided ...

Credit: Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania/Cover Images More than 150 false killer whales beached themselves during a mass stranding near Arthur River in Tasmania, Australia on ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

THE push is on for Tasmania to formally adopt an official animal emblem in line with the rest of the country. Other states have formal recognition for their iconic animals, but Tasmania has never ...

Dozens of animals, some of them rare, remained missing from Tasmania’s only accredited zoo Saturday, two days after someone released the creatures into the wild, the zoo’s co-owner said. The intruder ...