University researchers are confident they will be able to save the northern quoll from being driven to extinction by cane toads, thanks to microscopic genetic modifications. Northern quolls ...

The US-based “de-extinction” company Colossal Biosciences claims a team it funds in Australia has taken “a major step” towards saving an endangered marsupial called the northern quoll.

Male northern ... different Northern Quolls over a two week period. Once common across northern Australia these wonderful little animals have been driven to the brink of extinction.

The Northern quoll is the largest-known mammal that invests all its energy into just one breeding season. Previous studies have shown these marsupials mate themselves to death in one season and do ...

The life of a male northern quoll is short, brutish and driven almost entirely by the pursuit of sex. The Australian male marsupials are what's known as "suicidal reproducers," which means they ...

Their expansion threatens a complete extinction of the quoll species. “We need northern quolls to have a balanced ecosystem in mainland Australia,” shared Professor Andrew Pask, who leads the ...

Colossal declared in 2022 that it would attempt to “de-extinct” the thylacine; since no living thylacines exist, de-extinction ... like that of the northern quoll. In the same release ...

The northern quoll, an endangered marsupial species native to Australia, is literally dying for sex, new research suggests. Photo from the Australian Dept. of Agriculture Swedish artist Tove Lo ...

In an effort to find out why, University of the Sunshine Coast researchers fitted backpacks with trackers on wild roaming male and female northern quolls on Groote Eylandt, off the Northern ...