The creature in the video bears little resemblance to a healthy Tasmanian devil ... The highly transmissible cancer DFTD has spread quickly through Tasmania's native devil population since ...
The team of researchers, which included scientists from the United Kingdom and Denmark, administered devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) cells to six animals with the cancer. The cells, which expressed ...
Tasmanian devils ... and lesions on the devils’ heads first appeared, scientists thought the disease must be caused by a virus. But it is actually an aggressive cancer, and the contagious ...
Conservationists, together with scientists, aim to prevent Tasmanian devils from becoming extinct due to the DFTD ...