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.

A recent photo that sparked speculation that an Indonesian tiger species had come back from extinction most likely shows instead a rare, but certainly not extinct, Javan leopard (Panthera pardus ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...