Image by Rahmadi Rahmad/Mongabay Indonesia. A Javan tiger skull stored at the Bogor Zoological Museum. Image by Rahmadi Rahmad/Mongabay Indonesia. Rumored sightings of Javan tigers have been ...

Much more research is needed to be certain, but conservationists say there is now a glimmer of hope the Javan tiger could still be out there, roaming the island’s forests. The Javan tiger ...

The last confirmed sighting of a Javan tiger was in 1976, but people occasionally report seeing tigers on Java to this day. Recently, the authors of a new study, published March 21 in the journal ...

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 ...

The Javan tiger was declared extinct in 2008, but new evidence indicates it may not be extinct after all. Photo from Anni Denkova, UnSplash The forests of Java, an island in Indonesia, were once ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — 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 ...

Five years ago, Kalih Raksasewu was getting his car tuned when his mechanic shared a curious tidbit: He had stumbled upon a tiger near his ... and especially because Javan tigers have long been ...

Taken in 1938, this image captures one of the once abundant Javan tigers. Hunting drove the big cats to extinction. A. Hoogerwerf via Wikimedia CC A tiger subspecies thought to be extinct for ...

2. The Javan tiger was quite similar in appearance to the still existing Sumatran tiger, but had darker and more numerous black stripes. 3. The major cause of this animal’s extinction was ...