Extinct Javan tigers, which disappeared almost 50 years ago, could still be alive, researchers have claimed. And while their research has come under significant scientific scrutiny, there appears to ...

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 ...

A recent photograph of a big cat by park rangers in Java sparked suggestions that it could be the Javan tiger, which was officially declared extinct in 2003. Scientists, however, have concluded that ...

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The forests of Java, an island in Indonesia, were once heavily populated by the eponymous Java tiger, a subspecies of Sumatran tiger. But, as a result of hunting and habitat loss, the cats began to ...