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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We suspected that the devils would evolve resistance to the disease,” she added. “It was really exciting to see that this hunch or hypothesis was actually correct.” Storfer and colleagues scanned the ...