Geneticists have critiqued a study suggesting extinct Javan tigers are still alive, but the search is just beginning.

Javan Tiger May Not Be Extinct After All, DNA Analysis Of Hair Suggests The big cats were apparently wiped out by the 1980s, but new research hints this may not have been the case.

With camera traps and extensive DNA sweeps, Indonesian conservationists are hoping to find more evidence that the Javan tiger, a species declared extinct, actually still exists in the wild, an ...

A-hed A Late-Night Sighting, and a Single Hair, Rekindle Hopes That an Extinct Tiger Lives On Against all odds, DNA analysis suggests that a giant predator may have survived in Java, one of the ...

In 2008, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared the Javan tiger, a subspecies of the Sumatran tiger, extinct. More than 20 years later, a conservationist living on the ...

Javan tiger was declared extinct in Indonesia in 2008. But now, a ‘single hair’ has been found on a plantation, leading to hunt for species.

Indonesia is hunting for more clues that the extinct Javan tiger may still exist in the wild, a government official said Tuesday, after a new study suggested links between a DNA-tested hair and ...