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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

More than 40 years ago, the last known Javan tiger was seen by human eyes. In the intervening years, preservationists assumed the tiger was extinct — until a mysterious big cat was filmed by ...