Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close-up of a Sumatran tiger in a jungle. Extinct Javan tigers, which disappeared almost 50 years ago, could still be alive, ...

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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 ...

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 ...