Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. The Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii, is a small, very ...

When the sun sets in Tasmania, a creature with fur as dark as the night emerges from its den to begin its search for food, scavenging for carrion and hunting small mammals and birds. To many, it’s ...

The creature in the video bears little resemblance to a healthy Tasmanian devil; largely furless, standing in broad daylight when the species is usually nocturnal, and with a bulbous growth on its ...